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Season 12: Quest for clean water
Season 12 of "Engineering Out Loud," 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.
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…
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…
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…
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,…