Oneka Algarrobo Chile Test
To address water shortages in Chile, Canadian company Oneka Technologies installed and successfully tested its demonstrator project for desalinating water using wave energy on the coast of Algarrobo, a seaside town in the central coast of Chile, some 80 kilometers from Chile’s capital, Santiago. During the past 6 months, the modular and scalable system deployed showed the potential it has to provide water to coastal communities by bringing water to the coastline that was produced solely using the power of the waves. It was also able to demonstrate its capacity to survive harsh storms that can occur in Chile. Oneka’s sustainable wave-powered desalination buoy systems are located hundreds of meters from the coastline and are anchored to the bottom of the sea. The oscillating movements produced by ocean waves mechanically pressurize the water and filter the salt from the water using reverse osmosis membranes. Subsequently, desalinated water produced by the buoys is transferred via an underwater pipe and stored in tanks located on the coast, ready to be distributed to the population for human consumption, irrigation or to be used in industrial settings with high quality standards and without impacting the environment. Energy harvested is used directly for reverse osmosis.
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