Desalination technology for the water challenge of the 21st century

Informazioni relative al progetto

SonixED

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 969116

DOI

10.3030/969116

Progetto chiuso

Data della firma CE 10 Maggio 2021

Data di avvio 1 Giugno 2021

Data di completamento 30 Novembre 2023

Finanziato da

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs

Costo totale

€ 3 277 250,00

Contributo UE

€ 2 294 075,00

Coordinato da

HYDRO VOLTA
Belgium

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

Periodo di rendicontazione: 2022-06-01 al 2023-11-30

Sintesi del contesto e degli obiettivi generali del progetto

- 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.

Lavoro eseguito dall’inizio del progetto fino alla fine del periodo coperto dalla relazione e principali risultati finora ottenuti

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).

Progressi oltre lo stato dell’arte e potenziale impatto previsto (incluso l’impatto socioeconomico e le implicazioni sociali più ampie del progetto fino ad ora)

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.