A new process of sea water desalination expected to reduce the cost of desalination by 25-30 percent was announced by the Haifa Technion today. The inventor of the process, Prof. Abraham Kogan of the Technion’s faculty of aeronautical engineering said “development has reached the stage where it can be applied to an industrial-sized desalination plant.” Prof. Kogan spoke at a press conference held at the site of a pilot plant in which the method was developed and tested for the past five years. The site is on the premises of the Haifa power station of the Israel Electric Co.
He said negotiations are currently being held with a number of firms in Israel and abroad concerning the construction of a large-scale plant. Technion president Alexander Goldberg called the new process “one of the most important developments to come out of the Technion.” He added, “As a result of this breakthrough we may look forward to an era in which saline water will be converted into potable water at a reasonable cost.”
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