Solar driven produced water treatment for beneficial uses

Project Member(s): Nghiem, D., Johir, M.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Department of Industry, Innovation and Science (Innovation Connections)
Department of Industry, Innovation and Science (Innovation Connections)
Bridgeport Energy Limited (Bridgeport Energy)
Bridgeport Energy Limited (Bridgeport Energy)

Start year: 2021

Summary: This project provides Bridgeport Energy with a systematic investigation of the theoretical limit of the technology to use solar energy to extract clean and high quality water from saline produced water for beneficial uses at the Eromanga gas field.

FOR Codes: Fluid mechanics and thermal engineering, Mining and Extraction of Energy Resources, Primary Mining and Extraction of Mineral Resources, Interdisciplinary Engineering, Primary mining and extraction of minerals

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.