Salinity Solutions Campaign - technology to clean up the world's water treatment industries
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Business
The Salinity Story so far...
In the early 2000s: Professor Philip Davies, travelled the world witnessing the challenges of water stress and the complexity and cost of desalination systems. He felt there must be a better way.
2010: Philip led a research team at Aston University and published his first paper designing a high efficiency adaptation of the established reverse osmosis method of desalination.
Philip spent the next 10 years and £3m in research grants at Aston and Birmingham Universities developing a better system, designing 3 orientations, building 5 prototypes and implementing 4 field trials on 3 continents.
2016: Tim Naughton was looking for a thesis project for his mechanical engineering degree at Aston University and spoke to most of the engineering faculty. Philip's work captured his imagination and motivation to solve a global problem.
2018: Together Philip and Tim moved to the University of Birmingham and finished the build and test of the full scale prototype. The first patent was registered.
2019: The Innovate UK funded ICURe programme, supported by University of Birmingham Enterprise business incubator, provided a £200k grant for development of the 2nd generation full scale prototype.
2020: UoB Enterprise introduced Tim to Clean Engineering, who loved the mission and the authenticity and dedication of Philip & Tim.
2021: Clean Engineering invests and Salinity Solutions Ltd is launched.
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