Hydrocells Industrial
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World leader TSMC (57% market share) use 150,000 tons of water every day. In 2021, Taiwan had a drought which diminished their supply from reservoirs, necessitating water imports of $500Mn from overseas.
INSPIRE (Integrated Sustainable Production through Innovative Resource Efficiency) project is a £2.4M funded project through the Innovate UK Made Smarter Innovation Challenge, that focuses on the decarbonisation, improved resource efficiency and improved productivity of semiconductor production through the deployment of new digital manufacturing technologies.
Hydrocells will lead the implementation of active water management, with rainwater capture, in situ monitoring and smart separation of influent and effluent streams, married with to real-time weather forecasts.
The approach minimises and, eventually eliminates, the use of tap water and sewage discharge to manage peak-flows. These events present serious health risks to the general public, for example open-water swimmers can be exposed to sewage following these events resulting in illness.
Many other industries such as beverages, textiles, farming, also use huge volumes of water as part of their manufacturing processes. For example, it takes 2,866 gallons of water to create a single pair of jeans, and 328 gallons of water to produce a 2-litre bottle of soda. These industries can benefit from innovation in rainwater capture and management – particularly those which are in areas that are liable to droughts or monsoons. Balancing weather forecasting, input supply, storage and recovery supporting local flood management.
Global water management specialists SUEZ Water Technologies & Solutions (“SWTS”) will use their expertise to analyse, deploy and optimise water treatment and management solution towards lowest possible energy consumption
An uncomfortable truth is that electronics is globally one of the most polluting industries and many other industries are huge consumers of potable water.
Hydrocells provides a perfect soultion.
Hydrocells Domestic & Commercial
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The project aims to reduce carbon emissions of PSL’s production process by over 6,000,000 kg (6 Million) CO2 per year, through reductions in offsite transportation in waste, minimisation of tap-water and, where possible, elimination of VOCs from waste-streams.
This translates to ~50% reduction in CO2e from influent/effluent during the project rising to >90% 3 years after the project.
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