MIDES SIGNED
Microbial Desalination for Low Energy Drinking Water
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Project "MIDES" data sheet
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| Coordinator |
FCC AQUALIA SA
Organization address contact info |
| Coordinator Country | Spain [ES] |
| Project website | http://midesh2020.eu/ |
| Total cost | 8˙019˙583 € |
| EC max contribution | 6˙328˙164 € (79%) |
| Programme |
1. H2020-EU.2.1.2. (INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies – Nanotechnologies) |
| Code Call | H2020-NMP-2015-two-stage |
| Funding Scheme | IA |
| Starting year | 2016 |
| Duration (year-month-day) | from 2016-04-01 to 2020-03-31 |
Partnership
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FCC AQUALIA SA | ES (MADRID) | coordinator | 1˙996˙823.00 |
| 2 | FUNDACION IMDEA AGUA | ES (ALCALA DE HENARES MADRID) | participant | 965˙258.00 |
| 3 | ACONDICIONAMIENTO TARRASENSE ASSOCIACION | ES (TERRASSA) | participant | 835˙581.00 |
| 4 | SGL CARBON GMBH | DE (MEITINGEN) | participant | 626˙937.00 |
| 5 | FUJIFILM MANUFACTURING EUROPE BV | NL (TILBURG) | participant | 508˙573.00 |
| 6 | STICHTING IHE DELFT INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION | NL (DELFT) | participant | 430˙680.00 |
| 7 | SIMTECH GMBH | AT (GRAZ) | participant | 357˙245.00 |
| 8 | ONCONTROL TECHNOLOGIES LDA | PT (LISBOA) | participant | 296˙765.00 |
| 9 | MIKROLIN HUNGARY TERMELO ES SZOLGALTATO KFT | HU (Tatabanya) | participant | 160˙300.00 |
| 10 | ECOLE NATIONALE D'INGENIEURS DE GABES | TN (ZRIG GABES) | participant | 150˙000.00 |
| 11 | ROOD WIT BLAUW WATER SERVICES BV | NL (ALMELO) | participant | 0.00 |
| 12 | UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE | CL (SANTIAGO) | participant | 0.00 |
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Project objective
Shortage of fresh water has become one of the major challenges for societies all over the world. Water desalination offers an opportunity to significantly increase the freshwater supply for drinking, industrial use and irrigation. All current desalination technologies require significant electrical or thermal energy, with today's Reverse Osmosis (RO) desalination units consuming electric energy of at least 3 kWh/m3 – in extensive tests about ten years ago, the Affordable Desalination Collaboration (ADC) in California measured 1.6 kWh/m3 for RO power consumption on the best commercially available membranes, and total plant energy about twice as high. To overcome thermodynamical limitations of RO, which point to 1.09 kwh/m3 for seawater at 50 % recovery, Microbial Desalination Cells (MDC) concurrently treat wastewater and generate energy to achieve desalination. MDCs can produce around 1.8 kWh of bioelectricity from the handling of 1 m3 of wastewater. Such energy can be directly used to i) totally remove the salt content in seawater without external energy input, or ii) partially reduce the salinity to lower substantially the amount of energy for a subsequent desalination treatment. MIDES aims to develop the World’s largest demonstrator of an innovative and low-energy technology for drinking water production, using MDC technology either as stand-alone or as pre-treatment step for RO. The project will focus on overcoming the current limitations of MDC technology such as low desalination rate, high manufacturing cost, biofouling and scaling problems on membranes, optimization of the microbial-electrochemical process, system scaling up and economic feasibility of the technology. This will be achieved via innovation in nanostructured electrodes, antifouling membranes (using nanoparticles with biocide activity), electrochemical reactor design and optimization, microbial electrochemistry and physiology expertise, and process engineering and control.
Deliverables
| Development of a public/private website | Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. | 2020-04-07 20:59:08 |
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Publications
| year | authors and title | journal | last update |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 |
Frank Rogalla, Ricardo SandÃn, VÃctor Monsalvo and Juan Arévalo 8th International Water Association Membrane Technology Conference & Exhibition for water and Watewater Treatment and Reuse published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
2020-04-07 | |
| 2019 |
Fatma Khaled ; Béchir Chaouachi ; Khaoula Hidour Study of a Developed Model Describing a Vacuum Membrane Distillation Unit Coupled to Solar Energy published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
International Conference on Innovative Applied Energy (IAPE’19) Vol:13, No:4 | 2020-04-07 |
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