Advanced Desalination Membrane Technology
Passive membrane separation is holding desalination back
Conventional membranes cannot adapt or respond. They simply receive what the feedwater brings. Fouling, scaling, and chemical dosing are built into the process from the start.
This approach adds complexity, increases costs, and limits what’s possible with recovery and plant performance.
The Future of Membrane Separation
Smart membranes will transform the industry, delivering an operator experience that sets a new standard.
Conventional membranes used in desalination operate passively
They allow water to pass while retaining impurities, but have no control over what reaches them. As a result, they depend on chemical and mechanical pre-treatment to manage fouling from organics, biofilms, and scaling minerals.
This need for constant correction defines system design. It increases footprint, limits recovery, and drives up operating complexity.
What comes next changes everything.
Our Solution: Next Generation of Active Membranes
Active Membranes’ approach is new and entirely different. Our electrically conducting membranes actively inhibit scaling and fouling using a low tunable electrical potential, so that the membrane – not the process – is in the driver’s seat.
With their anti-scaling, anti-fouling properties, our membranes require minimal pre-treatment, minimal usage of chemicals and consumables, operate at a higher recovery, and simplify operation, resulting in a much lower footprint, capital, and operating costs, transforming desalination into a technology of choice.
Active Membranes’ spiral wound modules can retrofit any system and transform any passive membrane into an active one.
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Electrically activated membranes drive the process instead of reacting to it.
Active Membranes’ benefits in real numbers:
50%
Footprint
Reduction
40%
Lower
OPEX
2x
Greater
Membrane Life
60%
Less Membrane
Cleaning
25-45%
Higher
Recovery
20-25%
Higher
Throughput
0
Inline Chemical
Treatment
80%
Less Hazardous
Waste
Proprietary Electrically Conducting
Flat-sheet Coating Technology
Proprietary Spiral Wound Module Design
Smart Membrane System
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Any Membrane Flat-sheet
Low Cost, Modular, Scalable Coating Technology
Standard Dimensions - Range of RO Salinities
Each Module Independently Energized
Standard Pressure Vessels
Each Vessel Capable of Smart Fouling/Scaling Mitigation
What we achieved
Three ways we outperform without changing the system
