Project description
Solutions for cost-effective and sustainable desalination
The timely availability of drinking water is a critical issue. Saltwater desalination is expensive and technically challenging, which restricts its deployment. There is a pressing need for innovative methods to make desalination more affordable. The ERC-funded RealEase project will develop easily deployable, cost-effective, and sustainable desalination solutions using innovative technology developed at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS Paris). Unlike traditional methods that require extremely high pressures, this approach uses unconventional nanofluidic transport phenomena to purify water through commercial desalination filters using only low electric fields. The results will enable desalination with less demanding, less expensive, and safer equipment for operators.
Objective
Access to drinking water is one of the major issues of this century. Saltwater resources could constitute an almost infinite source of drinking water, but their desalination remains expensive and technically challenging, thus limiting its deployment.
RealEase aims to develop easily deployable, cost-effective, and more sustainable desalination solutions to preserve water resources.
This project relies on innovative technology developed at the cole Normale Suprieure (ENS Paris) and proposes to offer a novel and promising desalination solution. Unlike traditional desalination methods, which require the application of extremely high pressures (which can exceed 60 bars, equivalent to the pressure under a 600m dam), our approach exploits unconventional nanofluidic transport phenomena to purify water through commercial desalination filters, using only low electric fields. This allows desalination with less demanding, less expensive, and safer equipment for operators.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-ERC-POC - HORIZON ERC Proof of Concept GrantsHost institution
75794 Paris
France