The Water treatment Technoeconomic Assessment Platform (WaterTAP) is an open-source Python-based software package that supports the technoeconomic assessment of full water treatment trains.
This research aims to establish the scientific foundation of electrified processes and research opportunities for highly energy-efficient water treatment and pretreatment.
Water DAMS provides access to foundational water treatment technology data that enable researchers and decision-makers to identify and quantify opportunities for technology innovations to reduce the cost and energy intensity of desalination.
The report synthesizes high priority research needs for innovative and emerging technologies, as well as for existing uses of desalination and advanced water technologies.
The nitrate runoff problem, a source of carcinogens and a cause of suffocating algal blooms in U.S. waterways, may not be all gloom and doom. A new study ...
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) announced the selection of 12 projects that will improve the energy efficiency
The National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI), a world-class team of industry and academic partners, is partnering with communities to treat unconventional water sources
Our Research Areas
Process Innovation & Intensification
Materials & Manufacturing
Data, Modeling, and Analysis
Devices
Treatment Trains
Process Innovation & Intensification
This research area advances two categories of research and development critical to advancing NAWI goals: novel and intensified processes and autonomous and adaptable water systems.
Materials & Manufacturing
This research area focuses on developing new high-throughput gradient synthesis and computational simulation and screening tools, advancing manufacturing technology and metrology, and characterizing materials performance in operando.
Data, Modeling, and Analysis
This research area uses analysis and innovative tools to align research across NAWI. It provides an accessible data management system and innovative systems-level analysis and tool development. The data modeling and analysis area also manages an open-source analytical platform to evaluate pipe parity of technologies that are treating non-traditional water sources.
Devices
This topic area focuses on advancing device performance in key water treatment areas while simultaneously researching processes and systems to address the whole water treatment picture. NAWI researchers are looking to cost-effective, energy-efficient technologies in the desalination and fit-for-purpose reuse spaces.
Treatment Trains
This topic area accelerates the evaluation and design of breakthrough technologies and improve control tool capabilities to enhance the resilience and reliability of non-traditional water treatment through plant-wide optimization, monitoring, and autonomous operation.
