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Season 12: Quest for clean water
Season 12 takes us back in time to follow the progress of a research project to turn salt water into drinking water. In 2018, Bahman Abbasi, associate professor of mechanical engineering, received a $2 million grant to develop a modular, portable, self-contained desalination plant. We learn how his team developed a system to the cusp of commercialization, and how they have applied the technology to other purposes such as lithium extraction.
Can turning seawater into drinking water be a cost-effective way to provide clean, fresh water for the growing numbers of people facing water scarcity? Bahman Abbasi,…
We travel to Bend, Oregon, to visit the Water and Energy Technologies Laboratory and meet the team inventing a new desalination technology. Bahman Abbasi, associate…
The pandemic didn’t stop Bahman Abbasi’s desalination research. In this third episode, we learn about the successful lab-scale demonstration of his team’s technology and…
The final episode of the season occupies a time of transition, as spinoff company Espiku ramps up. We get an update on two systems that received patents and a third that…