Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/FT140101208
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Energy efficient membrane-based hybrid system for sustainable desalination. Seawater desalination plants have been built in Australia in response to increasing pressure on water supplies. The sustainability of these plants is challenged by their significantly high energy cost and concentrated brine output. By exploiting the high residual hydraulic energy contained in the concentrated brine and using it in a membrane-based hybrid system with renewable osmotic energy, this project aims to provide solutions for overcoming these challenges. Renewable osmotic energy will be generated from the salinity differences between concentrate and fresh seawater (or other water sources) by pressure retarded osmosis. This will be enabled by the development of highly efficient composite membranes using an electrospinning technique.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 05-2015
End Date: 04-2019
Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships
Funding Amount: $620,604.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Environmental Engineering | Environmental Technologies
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Renewable Energy not elsewhere classified | Physical and Chemical Conditions of Water in Fresh, Ground and Surface Water Environments (excl. Urban and Industrial Use) |
