{"id":61482,"date":"2016-07-22T09:31:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T09:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leitat.org\/blog\/innovation-meet-global-need-sustainable-water-resources\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T21:52:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T21:52:26","slug":"innovation-meet-global-need-sustainable-water-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leitat.org\/en\/blog\/innovation-meet-global-need-sustainable-water-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation to meet the global need for sustainable water resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Microbial Desalination (MIDES) project launches project to build world\u2019s largest demonstration of a low-energy system to produce drinking water.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The MIDES project aims to revolutionize desalination systems by developing a more sustainable low-energy process of producing safe drinking water from seawater. This advanced technology will be exploited as a cross-border project to meet the growing need for commercial and industrial water-resource applications that contribute to environmental, economic, and social development. Large-scale demonstration sites are planned in Europe, North Africa, and South America.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The \u20ac7.9 million EU Horizon 2020 project (2016 \u2013 2020) comprises an international consortium of commercial and research organizations that are developing a system using Microbial Desalination Cells (MDC) to remove ions from saline water in a process powered by bioelectrogenic cultures \u2013 as pre-treatment for reverse osmosis desalination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The need for innovation: Desalination of seawater with lower energy requirements is key to future water resources for growing populations in changing climate conditions. Reverse osmosis is the most widely used desalination technology, but with significant energy consumption above target reductions, and no current alternative systems adequately reduce energy levels. MIDES can make desalination more sustainable with the use of efficient microbial desalination technology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Target desalination energy requirement &#8211; Below 1 kWh\/m\u00b3<br \/>\nCurrent alternative systems &#8211; At least 2.5 kWh\/m\u00b3<br \/>\nMIDES energy requirement aim &#8211; Below 0.5 kWh\/m\u00b3<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Launched in April 2016, the MIDES project was presented in June at the \u201cSustainable Desalination\u201d session of the International Water Association conference \u201cEvaluating Impacts of Innovation\u201d in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. In addition, the first two project deliverables were completed in June: 1) A report on cathode and anode specifications 2) Specifications for ion exchange membrane development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For more information on the MIDES project, contact:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Frank Rogalla, FCC Aqualia, <a href=\"mailto:aqualia@innovation.es\">aqualia@innovation.es<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Maria Kennedy, UNESCO-IHE: <a href=\"mailto:m.kennedy@unesco-ihe.org\">m.kennedy@unesco-ihe.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">URL: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midesh2020.eu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.midesh2020.eu<\/a> (from August 2016)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The MIDES Consortium:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aqualia (Coordinator), RWB Water Services, Fuji Film, SGL Group, IMDEA Water, SimTech, LEITAT, UNESCO-IHE, Mikrolin, University of Chile, Oncontrol, University de Gabes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3867 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/leitat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/european-union-logo-e1425997244528.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This project has received funding from the European Union&#8217;s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 685793.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microbial Desalination (MIDES) project launches project to build world\u2019s largest demonstration of a low-energy system to produce drinking water. 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