environment founded 2011 headquarters voorburg netherlands products water treatment systems website aquaver.com aquaver is a cleantech company headquartered in voorburg netherlands with offices at the high tech campus eindhoven . aquaver is acknowledged to be the first company worldwide to develop commercial systems based on membrane distillation a novel technology for water treatment . aquaver is part of skagen conscience capital a global fund with a strong sustainability track record . ecover 1 and method products 2 are other companies of skagen conscience capital . contents 1 technology 2 applications 3 awards 4 merge 5 see also 6 references 7 external links technology edit the technology of the aquaver systems is based on membrane distillation . membrane distillation combines membrane separation and distillation with hydrophobic membranes and differences in vapour pressure . the vacuum multi effect membrane distillation vmemd configuration used in aquaver systems adds the advantages of low temperature operation and multi effects to the membrane distillation characteristics . aquaver has collaborated with memsys and philips to develop its water treatment systems . 3 applications edit aquaver membrane distillation units are focused at desalination 4 industrial water treatment 5 and difficult to treat waters . in february 2014 aquaver commissioned in gulhi maldives the world s first desalination plant based on membrane distillation . 6 7 the desalination plant makes use of the waste heat produced by the existing diesel generators which provide electricity to the island to power the water purification process . aquaver is also participating with abengoa and masdar in a 7.9 million dollar project to develop an innovative desalination pilot plant in ghantoot city in abu dhabi s border with dubai . 8 the desalination plant will have a capacity of producing 1 000 m3 d of desalted water using a hybrid system consisting in reverse osmosis in combination with an innovative membrane distillation system provided by aquaver to optimize the traditional reverse osmosis process . awards edit aquaver has received the water innovator of the year 2013 9 and the frost & sullivan 2014 european new product innovation leadership award 10 for the development of its membrane distillation water treatment systems . merge edit in 2015 aquaver merged with memsys which provides the membrane distillation modules used in aquaver systems . skagen group owns around 70 % of the shares of the resulting company with full control over the new organization . the aquaver management team who started the company and brought membrane distillation to the market has left to start other new ventures . see also edit desalination membrane distillation sewage treatment water pollution list of waste water treatment technologies industrial wastewater treatment references edit ecover website method website 1 philips news december 2012 . retrieved on 2015 03 19 sustainable desalination membrane distillation delivers greener clean water filtration and separation september october 2012 . retrieved on 2014 03 28 membrane distillation for water treatment speciality chemicals magazine march 2014 . retrieved on 2014 03 28 desalination plant powered by waste heat opens in maldives european innovation partnerships eip news . retrieved on 2014 03 18 island finally gets its own water supply global water intelligence february 24 2014 . retrieved on 2014 03 18 abengoa press release retrieved on 2015 03 19 water innovator of the year by watervisie platform frost & sullivan best practices awards external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title aquaver & oldid 737061534 categories companies of the netherlandscompanies established in 20112011 establishments in the netherlandsseweragewater technologyhidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 31 august 2016 at 14 35 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view