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H der Interno1\NRPorbilDCC\DERW93|182 I.oc 42016 A water purification system comprising a series of vessel assemblies for heat transfer and recovery, wherein each vessel assembly comprises a condenser, a separator plate with heat 5 pipes, and a boiler or evaporation chamber, wherein each condenser, and boiler or evaporation chamber in the vessel assembly has its own outer containment wall, and wherein the system removes, from a contaminated water sample, at least one contaminant type(s) selected from the group consisting of microbiological contaminants, radiological contaminants, metals, ions or complexes, salts, volatile organics, and non-volatile organics, while transferring or 10 recovering the energy of distillation once or multiple times by means of the heat pipes, and wherein, if the contaminated water sample includes scale-forming compounds, the system further includes a pre-treatment section to remove scale-forming compounds prior to treatment in said series of vessel assemblies. WO 2013/036804 PCT/US2012/054221 C14) I- P I 00<0 (D 0 C),- O )0 -cL 0( C'. 7 j&. i |