A 21-year-old innovator has invented a revolutionary desalination technology to filter seawater into fresh water by removing salt and impurities. The technology is claimed to increase the production capacity by over 22 times than world’s largest desalination plant, while reducing the production cost by around 80%.
Hyderabad-based Mohammad Abdullah, who is commonly known as AK, has been working on multiple innovations while also pursuing his undergraduate degree in computer application. In the past five years, he has designed ‘AK The Blue Rain Technology’ which is a sustainable artificial rain enabler system, ‘AK The Smart Water City System’ which is a flood resilient system, ‘AK The Tsunami Controller’ and ‘AK The Fastest Transportation System’ which is still under development.
After five years of working on a new cause, AK has now come up with a new desalination method, which he claims to be a revolutionary technology that will benefit the entire world. Originally called ‘AK The Salsabil Serenity System’ named on a fountain in paradise which is mentioned in Quran, the desalination technology has been renamed to ‘AK The Revolutionary Desalination System’.
Talking to The Free Press Journal, AK said that his desalination method aims to solve the major hurdles faced by contemporary methods. While Saudi Arabia-based world’s largest desalination plant Ras Al-Khair produces three billion litres of fresh water every day, AK’s system is claimed to produce 70 billion litres of water in the same time, which is 22 times higher.
Apart from scalability, AK said that his method also focuses on reducing energy consumption in the distillation and reverse osmosis techniques. While he claimed that his system’s operation of desalination is strategically designed to consume less energy, it will run entirely on renewable energy.
The reduction in energy consumption will also result in a significant drop in production cost as AK claimed that the operational cost to produce 1,000 litres of water will only by $0.20 against the current cost of $1 to $2. He said that while the new method will consume only 16% of the energy, the plan is to convert it into an energy-free technology. He claimed that while the production cost will be reduced by 83%, it will also be affordable to setup the plant with the new technology.
“Ras Al-Khair was installed at the cost of $7.2 billion which had an initial production capacity of only one billion litres in 24 hours. On the other hand, my technology’s production will be 70 times higher and would still cost less than the world’s largest plant. The issue of water scarcity does not pertain to a single country but the entire world. Looking at India’s rising population, it will also need such advanced technology in the future,” he said.
AK is under efforts to receive a patent for his technology and wishes to collaborate with the Indian government to install a largescale desalination plant in the country. However, he said that his aim also comprises taking his innovation to the Gulf countries like Saudi Arabia, which is the world’s largest producer of desalinated water.
“Water is not the need for life but the life we need. I have worked for three years to build this method and I am sure that this will be a moment of pride for the entire country. I will be happy to see this technology being used first in this country. I am also planning to collaborate with private companies to research in this field and come up with new ideas to make the technology better,” AK added.
