Research And Development into Reliable and Sustainable Remote and Seawater Purification Technology to Increasing Drinking Water Access Worldwide

研究和开发可靠且可持续的远程海水净化技术，以增加全球饮用水供应

• 批准号: 10087593
• 金额: $ 30.39万
• 依托单位: CLEAN WATER DESIGNS LTD.
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10087593
• 关键词: Research; Development; into; Reliable; Sustainable

Water is a versatile resource that is vital to human health, yet 2.2 billion people around the world (1/3) do not have access to safe drinking water.Although abundant to the majority of the UK, it can be difficult to obtain drinking water to appropriate drinking standards in rural locations where properties are detached from utilities companies and reliant on untreated Private Water Supplies such as boreholes, wells and streams.Purifying raw Private Water Supplies, and brackish or seawater, is a crucial solution to increase drinking water access, but seasonality and storms lead to contaminant, temperature and salt concentration fluctuations, fouling traditional purification technologies.These limitations disadvantage rural communities, reducing economic growth in remote areas, as well as increasing reliance on plastic bottled water.Clean Water Designs, have developed a proprietary high-speed, low-energy distillation technology, capable of treating previously untreatable raw water sources including seawater, to drinking water standards, consistently, with no consumable parts, allowing this vital resource to be available on tap to rural homes and businesses anywhere in the world.In this project driven by user pull, CWD will:* optimise its thermodynamic system making the energy price/litre affordable and financially compelling;* introduce an Internet of Things integration to enable remote data gathering, device improvements and maintenance cost saving;* Significantly reduced its Bill of Materials and assembly cost through inventive design;* Produce three demonstrator prototypes enabling extended user trials in a relevant environment; and* Prepare for CE and Water Quality compliance enabling rapid commercialisation beyond the project.Clean Water Designs will bring this innovative UK invention closer to market, acting on existing user pull and letters of intent from rural commercial properties in need of sustainable solutions to their drinking water problems, and set the groundwork for rapid commercialisation and future international expansion, address our sustainable development goals.

水是一种对人类健康至关重要的多用途资源，但全世界有22亿人（1/3）无法获得安全的饮用水。尽管英国大部分地区的水资源丰富，但在农村地区很难获得符合饮用标准的饮用水，因为这些地区的房产与公用事业公司分离，并依赖未经处理的私人供水，如钻孔，威尔斯和溪流。净化私人原水供应、微咸水或海水是增加饮用水供应的关键解决方案，但季节性和风暴导致污染物、温度和盐浓度波动，污染传统净化技术。这些限制使农村社区处于不利地位，降低了偏远地区的经济增长，以及对塑料瓶装水的日益依赖。清洁水设计公司开发了一种专有的高速、低能耗蒸馏技术，能够处理以前无法处理的原水资源，包括海水，达到饮用水标准，始终如一，没有消耗部件，在这个由用户拉动的项目中，CWD将：* 优化其热力系统，使每升能源价格负担得起，并在财务上具有吸引力;* 引入物联网集成，以实现远程数据收集，设备改进和维护成本节约;* 通过创新设计显著降低了物料清单和装配成本;* 生产了三个演示样机，使用户能够在相关环境中进行扩展试验;和 * 为CE和水质合规做好准备，使项目能够快速商业化。Clean Water Designs将使这项创新的英国发明更接近市场，根据现有的用户需求和农村商业地产的意向书，需要可持续的解决方案来解决他们的饮用水问题，并为快速商业化和未来的国际扩张奠定基础，实现我们的可持续发展目标。