Patent ID: 8517355

Claim:
A brine treatment system for evaporating water from a brine solution, the brine treatment system comprising: a housing having an air inlet and a brine inlet, said brine inlet receiving the brine solution; an evaporative chamber in the housing and containing a heat-exchange media constructed to receive the brine solution that suspends the brine solution and at least one nozzle in fluid communication with said brine inlet, said at least one nozzle receiving the brine solution from said brine inlet and transferring the brine solution from said brine inlet to said heat-exchange media to allow said heat-exchange media to transfer moisture from the brine solution to air received from said air inlet to reduce the moisture content of the brine solution; and a moist air chamber positioned in the housing and including an air outlet and at least one mist eliminator, the moist air chamber being in fluid communication with the evaporative chamber and receiving moist air from the evaporative chamber, the at least one mist eliminator being adapted to pass water vapor therethrough and capture particulates from the moist air.