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Energy Department Announces New Round Of Solar Desalination Prize Competition Prize Seeks Systems that Purify Wastewater Produced from Oil and Gas Extraction Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $5M in new funding for the second round of the Solar Desalination Prize, a competition designed to accelerate the development of systems that use solar-thermal energy to purify water with very high salt content. DOE also announced that eight semifinalists will advance in the first round of prize. “Solar-powered desalination systems can help decontaminate water produced by oil and ga...

 E-Mail IMAGE: David Warsinger, a Purdue University innovator, and his team are among the quarterfinalists in a national solar desalination innovation contest. Pictured are Warsinger and members of his research group's Membrane... view more  Credit: David Warsinger/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University innovator and his team are among the quarterfinalists in a national solar desalination innovation contest. They received the recognition for a technology to use solar power to purify high salinity water, such as treating desalination brine or produced water from...