Sustainable Desalination
There is a global trend to interconnect water, energy, and sustainability together. The purpose of the so-called Water-Energy Nexus is securing sustainable supplies of water and energy for both socio- economic benefits and environmental safety. Narrowing down the topic on desalination, current methods, i.e. consuming fossil fuels and discharging high saline brine, are not sustainable at all.
We will seek a sustainable desalination based on the scalable electro-membrane desalination. To this end, we will overcome two major limits (high energy consumption and brine discharging) i) by enhancing ion transport microscopically and ii) by mimicking nature’s salt regulation mechanisms.
