Aquanet Power applications
Fresh Water Production Via a Reverse Osmosis (RO) System: In typical RO onshore plants, only 1/3 of the total seawater pumped to shore is converted into freshwater with the remaining 2/3 returned to sea as concentrated brine. Unlike traditional desalination plants, 100% of the water pumped ashore is freshwater, resulting in significant energy and cost savings. Desalination equipment can be incorporated onboard Aquanet devices with the capacity to produce freshwater from seawater. Multiple devices can be spread along the coast to provide and support both electricity and freshwater supply tailored to the needs of coastal communities. By using a single Aquanet device for desalination, coupled with the provision of power from the grid to balance the energy supply during wave down-times there is the potential to provide 3 million liters of potable water per day, which would cover the needs of approximately 3,500 households.
Our aquaWAVE™ device is easily integrated into existing or new breakwaters, coastal protection sea walls and jetties. Given the shared capital costs of such a project, the energy cost is reduced significantly. Other advantages include reduction in maintenance cost due to ease of access and reduction in transmission as no subsea cable is required.
Offshore Oil & Gas Platform Integration. Our deep water application device, called ogWAVE™, is capable of connecting with oil and gas platforms as well as installations in more remote areas. Almost all offshore oil and gas wells face severe challenges associated with the remote and isolated nature of the exploration locations. One such challenge is the supply of electrical power to support exploration activities in oil and gas platforms.
Single Stand-Alone Wave Energy Converter Solutions. Many islands such as Pacific Islands south of latitude 20°S receive a substantial amount of wave energy with a mean available wave resource above 20 kilowatts per metre (kW/m) and many other islands also have potential for wave energy extraction with a mean wave resource above 7kW/m. Most small Pacific Islands would not need to deploy large-scale wave farms of ten or more devices, as power production would greatly exceed the demand.