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Saline Water Conversion Moves a Major Step Closer to Large-Scale Operation Department of The Interior Selects Lummus to Evaluate Freezing Processes and Design Demonstration Plant The Lummus Company has been selected as the architect-engineer for the East Coast saline water conversion plant which is to be erected at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall announced recently. The Wrightsville plant is the fifth in a series of five plants authorized in 1958 by Congress to demonstrate the engineering, reliability, and economic potentials of the most promising conversion processes in existence today. The contract awarded to Lummus calls for an evaluation of the freezing processes of saline water conversion. (Of the other plants in the series, three will use various distillation processes and one an electrodialysis process. ) The initial activity of Lummus' contract will require preliminary engineering service to prepare estimated plant costs, layouts, and reports. A second phase will include the design of the plant to permit issuance of specifications for the construction of the demonstration
plant as well as consultation with the Office of Saline Water on matters relative to awarding a construction contract for the plant. Lummus was chosen from a group of 35 engineering firms considered for the assignment on the basis of its experience in such parallel fields of technology as refrigeration, heat transfer and crystallization. "Product" from the plant will be water of a quality suitable for municipal, industrial or other beneficial consumption. Production rate will be 250,000 gallons per day. Over 900 plants have been designed, engineered and constructed by Lummus for the process industry throughout the world in the last fifty years. Why not discuss your next project with a Lummus representative? T H E L U M M U S C O M P A N Y , 385 Madison Avenue, New York 17, New York, Newark, Houston, Washington, D. C , Montreal, London, Paris, The Hague, Madrid; Engineering Development Center: Newark, New Jersey. C&EN
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