Veolia Water Solutions & Technology has entered in a five-year partnership with California’s NanoH2O to jointly explore opportunities for a new, higher flux SWRO membrane product. Under the agreement, which is best characterized as a technology partnership, NanoH2O
will supply its 8-inch diameter nanocomposite seawater elements to Veolia Water Solutions for use in SWRO projects.
The new membrane technology was originally developed by UCLA professor Eric Hoek before NanoH2O took over its commercialization three years ago. Since then, the company’s scientists have hand-cast more 8,000 membranes for bench testing and have pilot tested its four-inch diameter elements in a SWRO pilot unit for two years at Port Hueneme, California.