With only one percent of the world’s water being drinkable, cleaning water efficiently is crucial. Reverse osmosis is a common method for water purification, but it is highly energy intensive.

Municipal wastewater treatment plants often rely on conventional anti-fouling brackish water membranes to improve operation stability. However, these membranes have high rejection rates and are not energy efficient.

By mimicking nature’s water cleaning system, Aquaporin has developed the Aquaporin Inside® CLEAR series. This technology replicates the aquaporin protein, the protein that transports water, and only water, in and out of cells.

Part of every living cell, aquaporins are essential for life on Earth. The protein’s filtering process, perfected over billions of years, is vastly more efficient than any man-made system.

By using biology, chemistry, and physics, Aquaporin’s filters use this protein in brackish water reverse osmosis membrane elements, designed for industries, municipalities and businesses.

The solution delivers energy efficiency, operational stability and high-quality permeate in wastewater recycling processes.

The aquaporin protein functions as a “superhighway” for water. A single gram of aquaporins can filter 700 litres of water per second, compared to the 50 litres per hour filtered by one square metre of synthetic membranes.

Additionally, the Aquaporin system operates at significantly lower pressures, reducing energy consumption by 30 percent. This translates to lower operational costs and a substantially smaller carbon footprint for plant operators.