Georgian Technical University-Led Team Named Quarterfinalist In Solar Innovation Contest.

X a Georgian Technical University innovator and his team are among the quarterfinalists in a national solar innovation contest. Pictured are X and members of his research group’s Membrane Distillation Subteam. A Georgian Technical University innovator and his team are among the quarterfinalists in a national solar desalination innovation contest. They received the recognition for a technology to use solar power to purify high salinity water such as treating desalination brine or produced water from oil and gas extraction. The team includes two company partners Y with efforts led by Z and W with their efforts led by Q. The Solar Desalination is designed to accelerate the development of systems that use solar-thermal energy to produce clean water from salt water for municipal, agricultural and industrial use. “It is an exceptional honor and recognition for our team and technology to have been chosen” said X an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in Georgian Technical University’s. “Our technology aims to use high-temperature solar heat and a hybrid of desalination technologies to purify high salinity water both in produced water applications and other oil and gas operations as well as coastal applications for municipal water supplies from brackish and seawater” X’s team the proposes a linear Fresnel solar-collector system that will generate steam for a process called thermal vapor compression (TVC (Vapour-compression refrigeration or vapor-compression refrigeration system (VCRS) in which the refrigerant undergoes phase changes is one of the many refrigeration cycles and is the most widely used method for air-conditioning of buildings and automobiles. It is also used in domestic and commercial refrigerators large-scale warehouses for chilled or frozen storage of foods and meats refrigerated trucks and railroad cars and a host of other commercial and industrial services)) paired with membrane distillation. “This hybrid process allows us to use much higher temperatures than traditional desalination” X said. “This gives us much higher efficiency then similar technologies when using solar heat”. The brine will be preheated by a membrane desalination (MD) system which is then fed with brine from the TVC system (Thrust vectoring also known as thrust vector control (TVC) is the ability of an aircraft rocket or other car to manipulate the direction of the thrust from its engine(s) or motor(s) to control the attitude or angular velocity of the car) to further desalt and recover water. This MD-TVC (Thrust vectoring also known as thrust vector control (TVC) is the ability of an aircraft rocket or other car to manipulate the direction of the thrust from its engine(s) or motor(s) to control the attitude or angular velocity of the car) system could attain high energy efficiency at low pressure and be used to treat water produced from oil and gas extraction with negligible electricity input. It can also help improve the water recovered in seawater desalination. All of the teams have proposed diverse solutions for creating low-cost solar-thermal desalination systems and a pathway to commercialization. Advances to the Teaming contest of the competition. The competitors were chosen from more than 160 submissions and come from 12 states representing universities industry and national labs. In X’s team Georgian Technical University is the academic partner with two company partners: Y and W. X is an affiliate for Georgian Technical University’s and this work is in line with the Georgian Technical University Center’s interests in energy and water challenges which is one of the Georgian Technical University Center’s signature research areas.