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• ￭ Scientific publications ￭ Scientific posters
  • ￭ Technical publications
    •             - DESAL+ Living Lab, el ecosistema ideal para seguir avanzando en la innovación en desalación
    •              - Renewable Energy Drives Desalination Innovation in the Canary Islands

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• • ￭ Flow and electric meters
  • ￭ Water Lab and sampling devices (P-C, micro, etc.)
  • ￭ Off-shore marine meters and vehicles
  • ￭ Hardware, software and computational devices
  • ￭ Predicted maintenance devices

  These resources are in ourselves use and could be used by externals under different contracted forms (collaborative project; shared with supervision; by leasing; service provision). Within the DESAL+ Living Lab, the different actions in which is involved this infrastructure are:

• ￭ Studies and technical reports
• ￭ Analysis and tests in laboratory
• ￭ Testing in pilot plants
• ￭ Prototype development
• ￭ Applications in real environments
• ￭ Knowledge transfer and training

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object(WP_Term)#18740 (10) { ["term_id"]=> int(72) ["name"]=> string(15) "Human Resources" ["slug"]=> string(15) "human-resources" ["term_group"]=> int(0) ["term_taxonomy_id"]=> int(72) ["taxonomy"]=> string(20) "capacidades_recursos" ["description"]=> string(785) "Several technicians and researchers of the consortium are involved in this Platform. Their skills are oriented to commit to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the living lab activities and services. Whole members provide desalination, water-energy nexus and renewable energies demonstrated experience. Besides, the living lab has the support of several local engineers and plant operators with high qualifications and knowledge in the desalination sector. In general, the DESAL+ LIVING LAB includes several professional qualifications:

• ￭ 2 University professors
• ￭ 17 Ph.D.
• ￭ 5 Engineers
• ￭ 1 Graduate

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• ￭ Modelling and simulation of the desalination process
• ￭ Technologies, processes and efficient designs for seawater and brackish water desalination
• ￭ Integration and optimization of renewable energy (wind, solar, marine) sources for desalination
• ￭ Reverse osmosis: energy saving, energy recovery and direct use of renewable energies to the desalination process
• ￭ Energy and environmental characterization of the desalination processes. Indicators of energy efficiency, eco-efficiency and energy sustainability
• ￭ Large-scale studies (insular, commonwealth) of the contribution of renewable energies to desalination.
• ￭ Application of intelligent techniques in the field of the predictive maintenance in desalination.
• ￭ Control, evaluation and proposals for improvement the physical-chemical and microbiological quality of desalted waters for different uses. Application of desalted waters in agriculture
• ￭ Management of brine discharge. Advice on the design and selection of technologies for brine recovery
• ￭ Green-chemistry applied to desalination process
• ￭ Scientific-technical advice for the improvement of the operation of the physical-chemical pre-treatments
• ￭ Advice on design and selection of emerging desalination technologies. Analysis of costs, energy efficiency and water qualities
• ￭ Advice on procedures for characterization and evaluation (testing) of new membranes; in structural and chemical characterization of membrane fouling. Chemical cleaning of membranes. Preliminary membrane autopsy

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• • ￭ ITC Pozo Izquierdo seawater desalination test-bed facilities (pilot, experimental and pre-industrial conditions) – 0,1 km² – wind energy and solar photovoltaic fields, seawater and brine discharge
  • ￭ PLOCAN off-shore platform (pilot, experimental, pre and industrial conditions) – 23 km² – 600 m maximum depth
  • ￭ ITC Water lab (sea, brine and desalted water characterization)
  • ￭ 3 demo areas inside in private industrial desalination plants (real conditions tests)
  • ￭3 pilot desalination plants for testing

Within the DESAL+ Living Lab, the different actions in which is involved this infrastructure are:

• ￭ Studies and technical reports
• ￭ Analysis and tests in laboratory
• ￭ Testing in pilot plants
• ￭ Prototype development
• ￭ Applications in real environments
• ￭Knowledge transfer and training

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