Technological Company in Iran Develops Solar Desalination System
“In many regions of Iran, due to the lack of water and the draining of underground water tables in recent years, the level of water salinity has increased, and there are other regions that, although they do not have access to the water distribution and purification network, they have access to salty sea water sources,” Mehran Iranpour, a faculty member of Islamic Azad University’s Lanjan branch and the managing-director of ‘Shahr Aab Sazeh Irsa’ company, told ANA.
“Therefore, the development of small-scale desalination units is suitable for Iran, and the use of solar energy for water desalination is one of the most important applications of renewable energies,” he added.
“Our company has developed a solar desalination system to this end,” Iranpour said.
In a relevant development in December, a knowledge-based company in Iran had also managed to manufacture a device by using the electric exploding wire method, describing it as a new method for desalination of brackish water.
“The PNC1k-D device produces metal nanocolloids by using the electric exploding wire method on a laboratory scale,” Bahareh Kavani, the managing-director of the company stationed at the incubator center of Islamic Azad University’s Roudehen branch, told ANA.
“In this process, ionic impurities are removed from the aqueous solution based on an electrochemical technique and in the presence of anionic and cationic membranes,” she added.
Kavani explained that desalination of salty water with 95% and 85% efficiency, performance at pressure of 1 bar and ambient temperature, less energy consumption compared to other desalination methods, no need for pre-treatment and chemical supplements during the process, ability to adjust the output EC amount, membrane life span of more than five years, low operating cost and easy operation, arsenic removal device with card reader and plasma nanocolloid generator are the features of the exploding wire device.
