RealEase | RealEase constraints of desalination

Summary
Access to drinking water is one of the major issues of this century. Saltwater resources could constitute an almost infinite source of drinking water, but their desalination remains expensive and technically challenging, thus limiting its deployment.

RealEase aims to develop easily deployable, cost-effective, and more sustainable desalination solutions to preserve water resources.

This project relies on innovative technology developed at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS Paris) and proposes to offer a novel and promising desalination solution. Unlike traditional desalination methods, which require the application of extremely high pressures (which can exceed 60 bars, equivalent to the pressure under a 600m dam), our approach exploits unconventional nanofluidic transport phenomena to purify water through commercial desalination filters, using only low electric fields. This allows desalination with less demanding, less expensive, and safer equipment for operators.
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Web resources: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101189422
Start date: 01-09-2024
End date: 28-02-2026
Total budget - Public funding: - 150 000,00 Euro
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Access to drinking water is one of the major issues of this century. Saltwater resources could constitute an almost infinite source of drinking water, but their desalination remains expensive and technically challenging, thus limiting its deployment.

RealEase aims to develop easily deployable, cost-effective, and more sustainable desalination solutions to preserve water resources.

This project relies on innovative technology developed at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS Paris) and proposes to offer a novel and promising desalination solution. Unlike traditional desalination methods, which require the application of extremely high pressures (which can exceed 60 bars, equivalent to the pressure under a 600m dam), our approach exploits unconventional nanofluidic transport phenomena to purify water through commercial desalination filters, using only low electric fields. This allows desalination with less demanding, less expensive, and safer equipment for operators.

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SIGNED

Call topic

ERC-2024-POC

Update Date

17-11-2024
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Horizon Europe
HORIZON.1 Excellent Science
HORIZON.1.1 European Research Council (ERC)
HORIZON.1.1.1 Frontier science
ERC-2024-POC ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS