Annual salt demand in India is rising by 5-6%, driven largely by rise in industrial consumption. The unseasonal rains during the salt season and frequent cyclones, heavy and intense rainfall, flooding and drastic climate change over the globe acts as one of the major factors driving the growth of the industrial salt market due to crop loss. The developed system is used to increase the salt yield per acre salt pond area by enhancing evaporation rate of brine.  The invented system will reduce the time taken for producing salt during summer and winter seasons and to increase the salt production by enhancing evaporation rate of brine.

With the consistent fall in salt production over the years in all the salt producing regions of India, the prices of soda ash have gone up 70 % during the past four years. Similarly, even edible salt prices have gone up 20 % due to reduced production over the year. System is to produce an industrial grade salt & also endeavor to increase the evaporation rate, whiteness index & production rate. The salt production quality can be increased by reducing salt cycle duration by 30-40 % compared to natural solar evaporation.  The increase in demand for the product for various industrial applications is escalating the growth of industrial salt market.

This is an eco-friendly process. Completely based on renewable energy / solar energy

Sea water/Subsoil brine, Freshwater

Solar water heater, Brine pond/tank, Hollow tubes, Rotameter, Thermocouple, Pump, Solar panel, Overhead tank, hollow pipes

The evaporation rate will be increased 40 % higher than the natural solar evaporation depending on the climatic conditions.

The salt yield increased by enhancing evaporation rate between the salt compartment of Reservoir-1 (from 3o to 5o Be) by proposing present system in brine channel.

The payback period of the system is 1.5 years, when implemented in brine intake channel to increase the evaporation rate of brine and salt yield. To be worked out based on proposed capacity.