Multiple-phase ejector distillation apparatus and desalination process

Claim 1

A PROCESS FOR THE DISTILLATION OF A LIQUID AND THE PARTIAL REGENERATION OF THE LATENT HEAT OF VAPORIZATION WHICH PROCESS COMPRISES: INCREASING THE PRESSURE OF A LIQUID STREAM; ACCELERATING AND EXPANDING THE LIQUID STREAM BY CONVERGING AND THEN DIVERGING IT TO OBTAIN A HIGH VELOCITY STREAM; ACCELERATING A SEPARATE VAPOR STREAM, OBTAINED FROM A BODY OF LIQUID, BY CONVERGING THE VAPOR STREAM; MIXING THE HIGH VELOCITY STREAM AND THE ACCELERATED VAPOR STREAM BY PASSING THEM TOGETHER THROUGH A CONVERGING MIXING CHAMBER; DECELRATING THE RESULTANT MIXED VAPOR AND LIQUID STREAM BY DIVERGING IT TO OBTAIN AN EXIT STREAM HAVING A HIGHER TEMPERATURE THAN THE VAPOR STREAM PROIR TO ACCELERATION; AND PLACING THE EXIT STREAM IN A HEAT EXCHANGER RELATIONSHIP WITH THE BODY OF LIQUID FROM WHICH THE VAPOR WAS OBTAINED TO CONDENSE AT LEAST A PORTION OF THE STREAM AND THEREBY PROVIDING A PARTIAL RETURN OF THE LATENT HEAT OF VAPORIZATION TO THE LIQUID BODY.