The BlueTech Forum is pleased to announce all our BlueTech Showcases are full!
Using New Technologies to Unlock Energy’s Power for Water will feature Hydrovolts, MaxWest Environmental Systems and Capilix. The interrelationship between energy and water is well established. There is 36.5 million MW hours of energy in the municipal wastewater going through US wastewater treatment plants each year. MaxWest will present on how their gasification technology can help to unlock this energy and deal with biosolids disposal issues. Hydrovolts will outline how we can tap into the hydro energy present in irrigation canals and produced distributed, consistent base load power.
The mantra that desalination is too energy intensive to be widely adopted has been trotted out so often that it has become self-perpetuating. The reality is different. The rate of innovation is increasing, as evidenced by the number of desalination patents in 2010 were double the amount filed in 2005. The increasing size of the market is attracting more entrants, and is increasing competition and competitive pressure. Desalination is ready to go mainstream. Desalination energy inputs have been drastically reduced—by over 50% in the past decade. The showcase Desalination Driving Down Energy Costs and Ready to go Mainstream features three alternative and very different approaches to desalination: carbon nanotubes from Porifera Inc., biomimetic aquaporin membranes by Aquaporin, and radial deionization from Atlantis Technologies.
In New Water Technologies Treat Problem Contaminants by Removing the “Unremovable” showcase we will hear from companies that have adsorbents to capture mercury and selenium from the coal powered burning stations and oil and gas industry wastewater and removing naturally occurring radionuclides, such as radium from groundwater. MARS Systems, Water Remediation Technologies (WRT) and NORAM Engineering will be featured.
Imagine H2O company winner Bilexys, the Water Technology at Battelle Memorial Institute and Ecolyse will be featured in the Biotechnology showcase, The Next Tech Frontier for Water Treatment. Biotechnology has delivered huge advances in many spheres of human life including medicine, biofuels and food production. Biotechnology is fundamental to water treatment and represents one of the next technological frontiers for the industry. There is also a new level of understanding and sophistication in how biotechnology is being applied to water. Biotechnology companies and research institutes are working to expand into this market area.
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