According to a method of desalinating sea water, sea water sampled from
deep sea is injected into a decompression chamber of a reduced pressure tank having
a steam chamber, steam at an atmospheric pressure superheated to a boiling temperature
or higher by high-frequency heating is supplied to the steam chamber at a surrounding
of the decompression chamber at an interval of a heat conducting wall therebetween,
water in the sea water is evaporated by heating sea water in the decompression
chamber and the evaporated water is condensed to thereby provide fresh water. Concentrated
sea water remains in the decompression chamber and therefore, the method can be
utilized also as a method of concentrating sea water. Salt can be obtained by further
evaporating the water of the concentrated sea water as necessary.