Projects

NAWI’s projects aim to accelerate promising early-stage research and development that can help achieve pipe parity. The projects are competitively selected and funded through requests for proposals (RFPs) that focus on A-PRIME. NAWI has funded 6 seeding projects and 6 research projects across A-PRIME. NAWI has also invested in Water-DAMS, WaterTAP, Proteus High Fidelity, and ProteusLib. These projects provide data storage/management, modeling, and analysis capabilities to in-house projects and to the broader research community.

Development of the Water Technology Techno-Economic Assessment Pipe Parity Platform (WaterTAP3)

Tailored Reductants for Selenium Removal in Iron Electrocoagulation

Development of HPRO Membrane Platform for the Desalination of High Salinity Waters

Redox-mediated Electrodes for Precision Separation of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Oxyanions

Multifunctional Membrane for Oxyanion Removal

Selective Electrocatalytic Destruction of PFAS using a Reactive Electrochemical Membrane System

Assessing the Impact of A-PRIME on Industrial Sector Supply Portfolios/Chemical Industry Case Studies

Novel Bipolar Membrane Assisted Electrosorption Process for the Selective Removal of Boron

Copper Recovery from Mining Process Waters with Ion-Selective Electrodialysis

Electrochemical Advanced Oxidation

UHPRO Membrane and Module Design & Optimization Innovations to Enable & Optimize Ultra-High Pressure Reverse Osmosis Membranes

Porous Polymer Networks and Membranes for PFAS and Selenium Removal from Water

Selective Separation of Selenium Oxyanions by Chelating Hydrogen-Bonding Ligands

Direct Electrochemical Reduction of Selenium to Achieve A-PRIME Water Treatment

Open-Source Modeling Optimization Library for Water Treatment Processes

Engineering Super Antiscalants for High Recovery Brine Concentrators

Kinetic Modeling and Experimental Validation of Mineralization in High Salinity Brine Solutions with and without Scale Inhibitors

Omics Platform for in-operando Biological Characterization Systems Design

Machine Learning Platform for Catalyst Design

Data-Driven Fault Detection and Process Control for Potable Reuse with Reverse Osmosis

Electrocoagulation Electrooxidation to Accelerate Cost-Effective Potable Water Reuse

Enabling Minimal Liquid Discharge Through a Modular, Flexible, and Electrified Pretreatment System

Electromagnetic Field for Membrane Scaling Control

Additive Manufacturing for Customized Membranes

Process Twins for Decision-Support and Dynamic Energy Cost Prediction in Water Reuse Processes

Advanced Process Controls: Autonomous Control and Optimization

Solvent-Driven Zero Liquid Discharge for Production of Synthetic Gypsum

A Novel Electro-Dialytic Crystallizer (EDC) for Energy Efficient Zero-liquid Discharge

CFD Modeling and Operando Measurements of Multiscale Heat and Mass Transfer for Membrane Module Customization

Computational Test Bed for Predictive Fouling Control

Foundational Control Methods For Water Treatment Systems

Platform Process for Electrified Pretreatment

ProteusLib – Integrated Computational Capability for Optimizing Advanced Water Treatment Systems

Robust Technology and Policy Pathways for Urban Water Security

Next-Generation Desalination for Treatment of Agricultural Drainage Wastewater

Development, Deployment, and Refinement of the Water Technology Data and Analysis Management System (Water-DAMS)