From Sunlight to Freshwater
We are developing a new approach to freshwater production for locations where extending conventional water infrastructure is difficult.
Where HelioVap Can Make a Difference
Our technology is being developed for applications where freshwater access, energy availability and infrastructure are closely connected.
Remote Islands
Distributed freshwater production for communities and facilities with limited access to centralized water infrastructure.
Why this is hard today
Water is usually trucked, shipped, or produced by diesel powered plant, and each of those carries a cost per litre that climbs with distance and fuel price. Small populations rarely justify centralised infrastructure, so the expensive option is often the only one available.
What we do not know yet
Whether output per square metre is enough to matter at household or community scale, and what physical footprint that would imply for a given population.
Coastal Communities
Solar-powered desalination for locations with access to seawater but limited freshwater resources.
Why this is hard today
Seawater is the one resource these places are never short of, and freshwater is the one they usually are. Piping it in or trucking it down the coast carries a cost per litre that rises with distance.
What we do not know yet
What footprint a useful daily output implies at community scale, and how a coastal site's wind and humidity change it.
Marine & Offshore Operations
Potential applications in vessels, offshore facilities and other environments where freshwater production and energy efficiency are critical.
Why this is hard today
Aquaculture sites and small marine facilities need freshwater where there is no pipe and frequently no dependable grid. Carrying it out to them is an operating cost that repeats every week, and it competes for the same deck space and crew time as the actual work.
What we do not know yet
How the system behaves on a platform that moves, and what biofouling does to an evaporating surface that sits at the waterline.
Emergency Response
Rapidly deployable water-production systems for situations where conventional water infrastructure has been disrupted.
Why this is hard today
When infrastructure is disrupted the binding constraint is rarely knowledge. It is logistics: getting equipment in, powering it, and keeping it running with whoever happens to be there rather than with the people who designed it.
What we do not know yet
Deployment time, robustness in transit, and whether output could ever be guaranteed to a standard a relief operation is able to plan around.
Off-Grid Locations
Decentralized freshwater generation for remote locations beyond reliable electricity and water networks.
Why this is hard today
Reverse osmosis is efficient where power is stable and technicians are reachable. Where neither holds, the maintenance burden tends to decide the outcome long before the energy figure does.
What we do not know yet
Service intervals, spare parts, and what actually fails first when nobody is watching it.
No location shown is an existing customer deployment. Images illustrate the environments the platform is being developed for.