Development of advanced technology based desalination system (water purification) and bilge oily water separation system
Source
- iDEX Challenges (opens in a new tab)DISC 1Round closed: 24 Oct 2018
Source summary
Investigate replacements for shipboard reverse-osmosis freshwater plants whose output varies with seawater salinity and temperature, and for unreliable coalescer-based bilge-water separators. The source names carbon-nanotube and biometric-filter approaches for desalination studies, and centrifugal separation for viscous or particulate-laden oily water, aiming at a 5 ppm discharge oil content. These are technologies to study under operating conditions, not established replacements.