Technical Name |
CryoDesalination |
Project Operator |
CryoDesalination Zero Carbon Solutions |
Project Host |
Billy Buchsbaum |
Summary |
CryoDesalination is a patented freeze desalination process that removes salts and heavy metals from seawater and industrial wastewater. It can also harvest valuable minerals from water and brines. When using conventional energy, Capex and Opex are 40 - 50% lower than reverse osmosis or thermal desalination. When using cold waste energy from sources such as LNG regasification, the CryoDesalination process can desalinate water at 1/10th the cost of competing processes, and with zero carbon emissions. |
Scientific Breakthrough |
The most cost-effective application comes from linking CryoDesalination with a source of cold energy such as an Air Separation Unit or LNG Regasification Unit (and in the future from Hydrogen Regasification Units). Combining such plants with CryoDesalination eliminates power costs for desalination and significantly simplifies the CryoDesalination Units. This enables CryoDesalination to desalinate water at 1/10th the cost of competing desalination processes. Additionally, when using cold energy CryoDesalination has zero carbon emissions. |
Industrial Applicability |
We can partner with CPC to use the cold waste energy from their Taichung and Yung-an LNG Regasification Terminals to desalinate seawater and produce 24.3 million tonnes annually of zero emission, low-cost fresh waterthat is much needed in Taiwan.Alternatively, CryoDesalination can partner with a water user (such as a municipal water system or a semiconductor factory) to purchase cold waste energy from LNG Terminals to make zero emission, low-cost fresh water for its own use. |
Matching Needs |
Agriculture, Fisheries, Forestry and Food, Ocean, Water and Sanitation, New Energy and Energy Saving, Manufacture and Enginnering Technology, CPC Corporation; Any Water Intensive Manufacturer |
Keyword |
Net-Zero Emission |