DESOLINATION est partenaire de SolarPACES 2024 : Présentation de la recherche de pointe en matière d'innovation dans le domaine des énergies renouvelables !

DESOLINATION est partenaire de SolarPACES 2024 : Présentation de la recherche de pointe en matière d'innovation dans le domaine des énergies renouvelables !

A l'occasion de la 30e conférence SolarPACES à Rome, en Italie, le projet DESOLINATION, représenté par ses partenaires, la University of Derby, Université de Teesside, and UNIBS, L'Institut de recherche sur les énergies renouvelables et les technologies de dessalement a eu un impact impressionnant grâce à ses recherches novatrices sur les énergies renouvelables et les technologies de dessalement.

Révolutionner la production d'électricité avec des cycles d'énergie basés sur le mélange de CO2

L'un des moments les plus marquants a été la présentation de L'équipe Net Zero de l'université de Teesside. Représenté par Professeur Patchigolla Kumar et son équipe de recherche dynamiqueDr. Abubakr Ayub, Balkan Mutlu, and Kristofer Poirier-l'équipe a partagé des avancées révolutionnaires dans le domaine de l'énergie solaire concentrée (CSP) et du dessalement durable.

Balkan Mutlu ont présenté leurs recherches de pointe, “Optimisation des cycles d'alimentation basés sur le mélange de CO2 pour les applications CSP : Une approche multi-objectifs”.”

Ces travaux pourraient révolutionner les Énergie solaire concentrée (ESC) et d'améliorer considérablement leur efficacité.

  • Utiliser des techniques avancées d'optimisation multi-objectifs pour améliorer l'efficacité,
  • Développement de nouveaux fluides de travail à base de mélange de CO2 qui améliorent la production d'énergie.

En se concentrant sur l'optimisation de ces aspects critiques, l'équipe vise à accroître considérablement les performances des centrales solaires à concentration, repoussant ainsi les limites de la production d'énergie renouvelable. Cette approche innovante promet des rendements plus élevés et des émissions plus faibles, faisant du CSP une solution plus viable pour relever les défis énergétiques mondiaux.

S'attaquer à la pénurie d'eau grâce au dessalement sans rejet liquide

Une autre innovation révolutionnaire a été présentée par Kristofer Poirier. “Innovative Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) Desalination for Mineral Recovery Using Solar and Geothermal Energy (Dessalement innovant sans rejet de liquide (ZLD) pour la récupération de minéraux en utilisant l'énergie solaire et géothermique).”

Dans le cadre de cette approche, l'équipe s'attaque à la pénurie d'eau par les moyens suivants :

  • Combiner l'énergie solaire et géothermique pour alimenter les processus de dessalement,
  • Réaliser près de 100% récupération d'eau et la récupération de minéraux précieux, tels que le carbonate de lithium, à partir de la saumure,
  • Réduire les déchets et améliorer la durabilité en transformant les déchets en minéraux de haute pureté qui peuvent être vendus.

Ce processus ZLD ne se contente pas de minimiser l'impact sur l'environnement, il offre également des avantages économiques en transformant les déchets en ressources précieuses. Une étude de cas réalisée sur l'île de Ténériffe a montré comment ce nouveau procédé pouvait améliorer à la fois la rentabilité et la durabilité du dessalement solaire et géothermique, en présentant une solution d'avenir pour les régions souffrant de stress hydrique.

Un appel pour une production d'eau durable

Les présentations faites à SolarPACES ont mis en évidence l'importance des éléments suivants extraction de saumure pour améliorer la viabilité des projets de dessalement. En extrayant des minéraux précieux et en obtenant un rejet liquide nul, l'équipe Net Zero de l'université de Teesside ouvre la voie à des processus de dessalement plus durables et plus rentables. Ces travaux sont essentiels pour faire face à la pénurie mondiale d'eau tout en réduisant les émissions de carbone, car le processus intègre les éléments suivants technologies de captage du carbone dans les systèmes de dessalement.

Kristofer Poirier a fait part de son enthousiasme après avoir présenté le processus innovant du ZLD, en exprimant sa gratitude à l'égard de l'équipe du ZLD. Centre d'innovation industrielle Net Zero et toutes les personnes impliquées dans l'événement SolarPACES.

“Ce fut une excellente occasion de rencontrer certains des plus grands experts mondiaux en matière d'énergie solaire concentrée et de chaleur industrielle”.”

a-t-il fait remarquer, soulignant l'importance de la collaboration pour faire progresser les efforts de durabilité au niveau mondial.

Regarder vers l'avenir : L'engagement de l'université de Teesside en faveur du net zéro

La recherche présentée à SolarPACES n'est qu'une partie des efforts plus vastes déployés par l'université de Teesside pour parvenir à des émissions nettes nulles. Grâce à son Centre d'innovation industrielle Net Zero, L'université continue de repousser les frontières de l'énergie renouvelable, de la durabilité de l'eau et de l'efficacité des processus industriels.

À mesure que l'équipe progresse, elle souhaite collaborer avec des partenaires industriels et des chercheurs du monde entier pour transposer ces innovations à plus grande échelle et avoir un impact réel. Avec chaque percée, ils nous rapprochent d'un avenir où énergie propre et renouvelable alimente non seulement nos besoins en électricité, mais aussi des processus essentiels comme le dessalement.

Italy's Solar Thermal Legacy

Historical and Modern Achievements in CSP

Italy has been at the forefront of solar thermal technology for over a decade. The Archimede plant, inaugurated in 2010, was the first CSP demo plant in Italy to utilize molten salt for heat transfer and storage in a parabolic trough system. This pioneering project set the stage for future advancements in the field.

In recent years, Italy has continued to lead the way with the commissioning of its first commercial CSP plant and several others in advanced stages of construction. This blend of historical innovation and modern progress makes Italy a fitting host for the 30th SolarPACES Conference, where tradition and cutting-edge technology converge.

DESOLINATION partners have just held their 4th progress meeting at Lund University!

DESOLINATION partners have just held their 4th progress meeting at Lund University!

Credentials: Hilde Skar Olsen, Lunds Tekniska Högskola

Once again, DESOLINATION project partners came together to share their progress and coordinate their next steps. This time, our consortium had the pleasure of being hosted by the Membrane Group of the University of Lund in Sweden, for a hybrid meeting!

The DESOLINATION project began in 2021 and aims to build a unique plant producing fresh water from waste heat recovered from concentrating solar power (CSP) plants. The demonstrator will be sent to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for testing in 2025.

After reviewing all our progress, our team had the chance to visit the laboratories of the Membrane Group at Lund University, where they will test the membrane desalination concept on pilot scale.

This physical meeting was great opportunity to organize discussion groups between two of our workpackages dealing with the optimization of the CSP thermal cycle for desalination and how to optimize desalination processes.

Many thanks to all the partners for these valuable exchanges, which help move the project forward!

Together, let’s demonstrate how concentrated solar power can be coupled with an advanced desalination system to produce freshwater!

Join our “New developments in membranes” online workshop

Join our “New developments in membranes” online workshop

In the last days, our project member, Prof. Frank Lipnizki from the Department of Chemical Engineering of Lund University (Sweden) has had the opportunity to organise a workshop on “New Membrane Developments” with some great international speakers.

The online workshop is free-of-charge and took place on Thursday 7th of December from 9:00 – 11:00am.

The aim of the workshop is to provide an overview on recent developments of membrane with focus on water and wastewater. For this, the LUND team has invited some of the leading researchers in the field from Japan, Egypt, India and Sweden.

Membranes are the centre of all the stages of the desalination process, nanofiltration (NF) pre-treatment, Forward Osmosis (FO) and Membrane Distillation (MD) processes. In DESOLINATION, modelling and small-scale testing activities will target the optimization of all steps of hybrid membrane separations. First, NF membranes will be used to reduce fouling and scaling effect in FO. Then, the FO separation membrane will be fine-tuned to ensure control over high water flux in combination with low reverse flux from the draw to the feed solution and thus maximize the efficiency and use of the osmotic pressure difference between the seawater and the draw solution. Lastly, the MD separation membrane needs to optimize the removal of pure water from the draw solution and must therefore be adapted to the chemical and physical properties of the draw solution designed for thermal heat recovery, as well as to the temperature and pressure conditions required for the VMD recovery process.

AGENDA

09:00 – Welcome (Prof. Frank Lipnizki, Lund University, Sweden)

09:05  – Prof. Takeo Yamaguchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan): Modification of antifouling membrane surfaces

09:30 – Prof. Marwa Shalaby (National Research Centre Cairo, Egypt):  Water shortage and membrane applications

09:55 – Prof. Sabu Thomas (Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India): Polysaccharide based membranes for water purification: Recent advances

10:20 – Prof. (assoc.) Naser Tavajohi (Umeå University, Sweden): A greener approach to PVDF membrane production

10:45 – Final Discussion (ALL)

11:00 – End

Meeting ID: 335 628 157 200
Passcode: y3oLXa

ENLIT Europe 2023 – the DESOLINATION project was exhibiting at the energy forum!

ENLIT Europe 2023 – the DESOLINATION project was exhibiting at the energy forum!

From November 28 to 30, the DESOLINATION project had the opportunity to exhibit at #EnlitEurope 2023, an end-to-end, inclusive and ever-growing forum addressing all aspects of the energy agenda in Paris Expo Porte de Versailles.

An excellent opportunity for our EU-funded projects (participating in programmes such as Horizon Europe, Life and CEF), to showcase our achievements and results to energy investors and other stakeholders, enabling a basis for discussion for the implementation of sustainable measures in the field of energy transition.

Our team, represented by Damien Serret from TEMISTh, Lola Mosseri-Lefebvre and Solène Fovelle from Euroquality, was delighted to meet partner organisations from various EU-funded projects at Enlit Europe 2023 and tell them more about how additive manufacturing can help improve energy efficiency to save CO2 and produce fresh water at 📍𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝟳. 𝟮.𝗛𝟴𝟬-𝟮𝟬 (Pavilion 7 – Entrance A2).

On the third floor, in the Decarbonation section, our project partner Aalborg CSP A/S, represented by Miguel Herrador Moreno, also took the opportunity to promote the project and explain its role as responsible for overseeing the development of the plant’s concentrated solar power (CSP) desalination system.

Having developed the first desalination system powered by concentrated solar power, Aalborg CSP A/S is responsible for overseeing and supporting the development of the plant to ensure its industrial potential for post-project use.

During the Hub Sessions, the projects participating in the EU Projects Zone will share our best practices, findings and technologies.

29 Nov 2023

EU Projects Zone Hub – Theatre 2 (Hall 7.2)

EU Projects – ETIPs Forum

On Wednesday, DESOLINATION, represented by Damien Serret from project partner TEMISth, took part in a hub session promoted by the ETIPs FORUM focusing on the role of Research & Innovation (R&I) in the deployment of renewable energies (RES) and enhanced energy storage capacities.

An interactive discussion will brainstorm and debate possible ways to promote the market uptake of key energy technologies pivotal for increasing RES share at the European and national levels and to ensure that Member States align with the latest EU policy requirements.

The debate will see the participation of ETIP Hydropower, ETIP Bioenergy and Batteries Europe, the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA), and the European project Energetic.

About ENLIT

Launched in 2017, The EU Projects Zone has welcomed a growing number of EU funded projects showcasing their findings at our annual Conference and Exhibition, involving hundreds of partners and contributing to an engaging programme.

Membrane Desalination 2023 (MEMDES2023)

Membrane Desalination 2023 (MEMDES2023)

Join the DESOLINATION project partners at the 6th International Conference on Desalination using Membrane Technology in Sitges (Spain) from 19th to 22nd November 2023 to discuss the latest developments in desalination using membrane technology!

Three of our project partners Nadin Al-Jariry, Jonas Hedlund from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, Muhammad Suleman from Lund University, and Irena Petrinić, Ross D. Jansen-van Vuuren, Thomas Luxbacher, and Hermina Bukšek from the University of Maribor, had the opportunity to present our project to leading academic researchers, scientists and engineers from the membrane desalination sector and associated industries, as well as to representatives of governmental organizations, international agencies and aid organizations.

The Univeristy of Maribor presented ‘Thermo-responsive Polyalkylene Glycol-based draw solutions for forward osmosis in seawater desalination‘ as a poster contribution. 

Together with Lund University, they also gave an oral presentation focusing on ‘Modeling forward osmosis-membrane distillation hybrid process for seawater desalination: flux prediction and process optimization‘ co-prepared by Suleman Muhammad, Al-Rudainy Basel, Petrinić Irena, and Frank Lipnizki.

Presentation extracted from the event website

Growing population, changing climate and increasing urbanisation require increasing freshwater supply and the sustainable water usage for industries and agriculture is of top priority. One of the most viable solutions is to tap from the seawater and wastewater. Membrane technologies have been established as the golden standard for desalination to address the global deficit for clean water. However, it is still expensive, which is one of the main obstacles for prevalent adoption of membranes.

Innovation is key to reduce the energy consumption and the total cost. This can be advanced by developing high performance reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration (NF) membranes, robust module and process design, as well as other novel desalination technologies. We have seen promise in breaking the permselectivity trade-off using state-of-the-art nanomaterials. Biomimetic single ion channel and artificial water channel have shown exciting results in bench tests. The Sixth International Conference on Membrane Desalination 2023 (MEMDES 2023) is the dedicated forum to disseminate the cutting-edge research and development in this regard.