In the NEWSUN project, the researchers are pursuing the goal of operating a water desalination system with 100 percent solar energy.
By Vera Haberfellner The availability of clean drinking water is not automatic. The 'Energy Aware Systems' working group of EMT is working on an energetically self-sufficient and sustainable water desalination plant. In many parts of the world, there is a shortage of clean drinking water. Climate change is aggravating the situation through more intensive periods of drought and increasingly occurring extreme weather conditions. A large number of people are dependent on drinking water production from water desalination plants. The high energy consumption of these plants is currently mostly covered by fossil fuels. In the NEWSUN project (Nexus of Electricity and Water Supply for Urban Needs), project leader Armin Buchroithner from the Institute of Electrical Measurement and Measurement Signal Processing (EMT) together with his team is developing a solar-energy driven water desalination plant.
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