Desalination technology for the water challenge of the 21st century

Informations projet

SonixED

N° de convention de subvention: 969116

DOI

10.3030/969116

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 10 Mai 2021

Date de début 1 Juin 2021

Date de fin 30 Novembre 2023

Financé au titre de

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs

Coût total

€ 3 277 250,00

Contribution de l’UE

€ 2 294 075,00

Coordonné par

HYDRO VOLTA
Belgium

Periodic Reporting for period 2 - SonixED (Desalination technology for the water challenge of the 21st century)

Période du rapport: 2022-06-01 au 2023-11-30

Résumé du contexte et des objectifs généraux du projet

- While nearly 70% of the world is covered with water, only 2.5% of it is freshwater. Even then, just 1% of the world freshwater is accessible, that is 0.03% of the earth’s water. As 70% of it is trapped into ground ice and permafrost, easily accessible freshwater is, in fact, less than 0.01% of water on earth!

- Desalination is a required solution, as ocean-based and other saline waters represent 97.5% of earth water!

-SonixED, a patented desalination technology, is a complete game changer. Thanks to the integration of ultrasound technologies, preventing fouling and optimizing the efficiency of the membrane, water recovery increases up to 60% with a lower power consumption, lowering operational cost per m3, that will make the water available for everyone everywhere.

Travail effectué depuis le début du projet jusqu’à la fin de la période considérée dans le rapport et principaux résultats atteints jusqu’à présent

We have redesigned, produced, and tested the first big-scale prototype of SonixED desalination module.

We have achieved many milestones:
- Design the first phase of the module for mass production and the production line
- Design the skids and modules for mass assembling and start to prepare the assembly line.
- Developing the monitoring tools and the data collecting system.
- Improved the communication, and sales capability and channels.
- We have prepared the first trial container, one for Seawater, the other one for Brackish Water that will be used in the field trials in 3 major use cases:
1. Seawater treatment to drinking water quality with Watergroep (Belgium),
2. With Farys and Aquaduin water supply companies (Belgium) will treat a mixed of Seawater & Brackish water to be drinkable water.
3. Treating and recycling waste water from the cooling towers' blowdown to be reused as fresh water quality with BASF (Germany).

Progrès au-delà de l’état des connaissances et impact potentiel prévu (y compris l’impact socio-économique et les conséquences sociétales plus larges du projet jusqu’à présent)

Not only a better cost-efficient solution, SonixED reduces drastically CO2 footprint (from -15% to -25%), eliminates chemicals (from -22% to -44%), and reduces widely plastic waste (from -33% to -76%).
As only 2,5% of the water resources on our planet consists of freshwater, desalination technologies will become vital for populations. There is a dramatic growing need for access to freshwater, as water demand is predicted to increase significantly over the next decades, accelerated by Earth’s global warming. We assessed a global market gap for the next 10 years representing a third of total current existing desalination capacity.

Our skilled and highly motivated team is eager to meet the challenge of a world with more fresh water and less environmental damages for the global benefit of millions of people.

We want to produce and sell containers for Seawater and for Brackish water, including remote monitoring. SonixED is a €20bn market opportunity and competition is very scattered with relatively small local players. End-clients will be municipalities and industrial companies at a global scale.