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Silal
Abu Dhabi
Silal, Abu Dhabi’s leading food, agriculture, and technology company, and Desolenator, a solar thermal desalination company headquartered in the Netherlands, have launched a pilot project deploying solar-powered desalination technology to turn saline water into pure water for irrigation and provide a sustainable cooling option for greenhouses. The project is supported by an AED 100 million R&D fund launched by ADQ, an Abu Dhabi-based investment and holding company, in 2022. The fund forms part of its ‘Growth Lab’, a community of innovators across ADQ’s portfolio that realizes the company’s commitment to accelerating innovation and R&D, focusing on unlocking growth opportunities, and driving value creation and sustainability across priority sectors of the UAE’s economy.
The project aims to demonstrate how innovative partnerships can address the water-food-energy nexus and model sustainable agriculture for countries worldwide. It also marks a paradigm shift in handling the vital water-food-energy nexus and is a testament to the power of collaborative innovation in advancing global sustainable development goals.
Today industrial desalination uses 0.4% of the global annual electricity and is on track to be responsible for 5% of global carbon emissions by 2040. Addressing this challenge, Desolenator uses no membranes, chemicals or polluting diesel, unlike traditional technologies. Instead, the patented technology uses the planets most abundant resource – the sun. By harvesting thermal and electrical energy from an integrated PVT panel, Desolenator produces high-quality water, monitored via a control panel. This solution eliminates external energy requirements, aiming to provide drinking water for all at low cost and with low environmental impact.
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