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A Low-Energy Water Purifier

January 8th 2009 23:16
A Yale spinoff hopes to solve the big problem with desalination.
Pressure drop: The pilot plant shown above uses osmotic pressure to produce clean water from brackish and salt water. Credit: Oasys
Pressure drop: The pilot plant shown above uses osmotic pressure to produce clean water from brackish and salt water. Credit: Oasys


Access to clean water is severely limited in many parts of the world, and while desalination plants can separate freshwater from sea and brackish water, they typically require large amounts of electricity or heat to do so. This has prevented desalination from being economically viable in many poorer cities and countries.

A Yale University spinoff called Oasys is driving one effort to change all this. Professor Menachem Elimelech and graduate students Robert McGinnis and Jeffrey McCutcheon have developed a novel desalination device that reduces the energy needed to purify water to one-tenth of that required by conventional systems.

By Lee Bruno
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