The company will focus its activities on the huge and growing demand for affordable, localized, and continuous supply of clean water in large parts of the world experiencing supply shortages. End-user applications include drinking water, water for sanitary and household use, and water for agricultural needs.
A further relevant category is the strategic need for mobile water relief, resulting from natural disasters such as floods, droughts, quakes, tsunamis, hurricanes etc. , When coupled with power breakdown, the need for immediate water delivery becomes acute. Such relief extends to defense applications, such as rapid deployment forces, and strategic intervention in the case of critical water supply being disrupted by an act of war.
In Asia and Africa (both extremely hot and water-deficient regions), where demand for drinking water is doubling every year, two-thirds of the population currently has no direct access to healthy drinking water.
Governments, local communities, industrialists and NGO's are struggling to find cost effective solutions as the situation worsens. In India, for example, approximately 650,000 m3 of additional drinkable water capacity will be required by 2015.
SwissINSO will offer cost effective and logistically practical solutions to this problem by providing autonomous, solar powered water purification / desalination and bottling units hosted in transportable containers. These units combine exclusive membrane technology with state of the art photovoltaic panels to achieve the first truly green solution to water drinking water shortage.
Each unit is capable of converting brackish, sea or spoiled surface water into 100,000 liters / day of high quality drinking water. The market is conservatively estimated at 1000 units per year. The company already has firm indications of interest for these units from India and is in advanced negotiations with other geographic areas.
Free from conventional energy sources and unbeatable low running costs compared to non-solar units.
Debris Removal Filtration
Polluted water is pre-filtered through an automatic self-cleaning filter for about 30 seconds to remove all solid particles and debris greater than 100 µm.Purification/Desalination Process
Ultra-filtration (UF) by reverse osmosis removes all suspended solids, turbidity, viruses, bacteria, and most organic compounds.The water is forced through a series of circular membrane plates in two separated streams: the filtrate and the concentrate.
Filtrated water is periodically backwashed to remove more accumulated suspended solids with the purified water flowing into an atmospheric tank, or feeding a bottling line.
The pumps and compressor are powered through an array of photovoltaic panels.
Free from conventional energy sources and unbeatable low running costs compared to non-solar units
- Totally green solution
- Can be easily installed in remote locations
- No permanent infrastructure needed
- Independent of unstable or unreliable grid power
- Locally run with very low overheads
- Running costs limited to maintenance
- Considerable energy cost savings per year
- Payback of total investment within less than 3 years for tank water or 1 year for bottled water production
- Solar Powered Water Purification Station SolarPure
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