Water-energy nexus
EERES4WATER highlights desalination technology

The EERES4WATER (Promoting Energy-Water Nexus resource efficiency through Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency) project highlights the presentation of the Wave2O™ desalination technology, developed by Resolute Marine, at the INTERREG Atlantic Area Programme stakeholders conference.

The testing experience of Wave2O ™ technology for using ocean waves in Spanish waters to dynamize a desalination system is part of the project's purpose of promoting technologies using marine renewable energies and will allow to define the cost of this application on the Platform Oceanic Canary Islands (PLOCAN). The selection of the testing location occurs after considering the wave energy resources, topology and reliability of the operation, following six preliminary studies in the vicinity of the desalination plant in the Canary Islands. The testing period intends to analyze the geotechnical data and develop a descriptive operation plan of the activities carried out, in order to prove the effectiveness of the Wave2O ™ system.

Also, within the scope of the technical development work on energy efficiency solutions, the University of Seville (US) presented relevant advances in the reverse osmosis process of seawater, driven by the complementarity of solar photovoltaic and tidal resources. The delayed pressure osmosis modelling software, as well as the modelling of wastewater and desalination plants has also been subject to improvements by the US.

EERES4WATER is a project coordinated by the Technological Corporation of Andalusia (CTA) and co-financed by the INTERREG Atlantic Area program through the European Regional Development Fund, which started in April 2019, with the aim of optimizing the management of the water cycle in the Atlantic region (Spain, Portugal, Ireland, France and the United Kingdom).

Published in 19.01.2021