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Military Desalination and Deionization
The military is one of the most ardent consumers of portable desalination processes. As we understand it, military equipment must be capable of "making camp" near any source of water no matter how brackish or polluted and within one hour have enough drinking water to sate the troops. From setup time to the time drinking quality water is available to the troops, the maximum elapsed time must be one hour, and sufficient volumes must be produced to completely sate the troops. Reticle Carbon CDI units mounted in the back of trucks are ideal for such use. They can take the most saline water from the most saline surficial or subterranean source, remove the ions, put the purified water into water carrying trucks, and discharge the highly saline wastewater right onto the desert floor within an hour. (In a military setting, people are not concerned about the discharge. It pours right onto the desert!) Because Reticle CDI is so parallelizeable, the magnitude of water production by a military unit will be a function of how many Reticle CDI cells the unit wants to have. This is a huge advantage in military applications in which reliability is a must and in which the only true ticket to reliability is redundancy. In addition, the cost of Reticle Carbon CDI cells is sufficiently low that it can beat the cost of alternative technologies such as RO.
Another benefit of the Reticle Carbon CDI cell in this use is the rigidity and lack of susceptibility to jarring or bumping. The Reticle Carbon CDI cell is a very simple device. It runs at ambient temperature and virtually ambient pressure and has no moving parts. There is nothing to start or break or malfunction. This is a huge advantage in military applications in which bouncing and jarring are the rule rather than the exception. Reticle Carbon CDI promises to be more reliable for example than RO, which has many moving parts and is susceptible to jarring and bumping. Because of sensitivity to jarring, the military would have to have many more RO units than Reticle Carbon CDI units in order to achieve the same degree of reliability through redundancy. Power recovery from the "stored" power would be an additional advantage to the military who have to generate their own power supply.
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