2014 Ocean Exchange Registrant

1. ELECTROCHEMICALLY MEDIATED DESALINATION
Desalinated Water with Radically
Energy Efficient Process

2. Modern desalination technologies use energy-greedy
processes which are ultimately dependent on the combustion
of fossil fuels to create extreme hydraulic pressures (Reverse
Osmosis), massive heat sources (Distillation) or extreme
electrical currents (Electrodialysis). This dependency tethers
desalination to pre- existing energy and water distribution (e.g.
piping) infrastructures via centralized water production (utility)
models. As a result, desalination is more expensive than fresh
water harvesting, and its penetration into the overall water
market has been limited geographically to only the most highly
water-stressed, gentrified areas (desalination represents today
merely a $20B slice of an overall $360B total water market).
ELECTROCHEMICALLY MEDIATED DESALINATION

3. The Okeanos WaterChipTM is a solid- state, Massively
Paralleled Desalination (MPD) platform that uses a newly
characterized, patent-pending microscale process called
Electrochemically Mediated Desalination (EMD) to desalinate
with radical energy-efficiency. It is completely membrane free,
and the first technology of its kind ever developed. The
platform desalinates a millionths of a liter at a time – that is,
they “Microdesalinate” – and they do this using tiny
microstructures, which are then massively paralleled to
produce useful water flows.

4. EMD is ultra-efficient because its “engine” is limited by
electron rather than ion-transfer kinetics, as is the case with
all other desalination technologies.
In essence we exploit the built-in, corrosive potential of
seawater and, in very tiny spaces, and at the “speed of light”,
redirects this corrosive potential towards the useful task of
desalination.

5. To learn more about this and other innovative solutions
Go to OceanExchange(dot)Org
The efficiency of WaterChipTM powered desalination will be
great enough to enable off-grid desalination on alternative
energy sources, and a new distributive model where water is
desalinated from brackish/oceanic sources when needed, by
whom it is needed, where it is needed. In the developing world
this will make the difference between life an death, and in the
developed world, it will open entirely new desalination markets
to help ameliorate their water problems and change our
trajectory from crises to sustainability.