Archive note: This page documents the Water Treatment Technology research area that was active from the lab's founding through 2022 and produced many of our group's most cited publications. Active research has since evolved into our Separations Process Modeling & Design work.
Our research demonstrates that augmenting future water supplies with small-scale, decentralized water reuse systems can be a cost-effective and low-carbon alternative to building new, large scale water treatment and conveyance infrastructure. Realizing this circular water future requires moving from conventional economies of scale in water system design to next-generation economies of scale in water system manufacturing, installation, and operation that are enabled by A-PRIME water reuse technologies. We leverage expertise in structure-property-function relationships of thin-film materials, heat and mass transfer modeling in membrane processes, and equation-oriented process optimization to identify and implement high impact A-PRIME innovations for a variety of high and low salinity water sources.
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