An Israeli chemical engineer today displayed to newsmen a system for desalination of sea water which, he said, would produce fresh water at a cost of one-third the expenditure of any other process thus far attempted.
The Demonstration of the new method was staged by the inventor, Israeli-born Ariel Osdor, at his laboratory at Petach Tikvah. His method involves use of a pressure system in which, at a critical point, the salts from the sea water are separated dry. Research on the process, Mr. Osdor said, has been financed by Robert Sherwood, a Canadian now living in Switzerland. He said he expected to have a pilot plant using his desalination process ready for operation in the next few months.
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