Categorias Research and Demo Infrastructure

A unique in the world desalination-oriented real-life and testbed infrastructure has been defined to research, develop, test and validate water desalination solutions with water-energy nexus and the use of renewable energies approach. The selected available experimental and real conditions fully-equipment infrastructure is divided in the following areas:

• • ￭ 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