Extracting Freshwater From Saltwater: Unpacking Desalination With Mark Holtzapple

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Returning to the podcast to discuss water desalination is Mark Holtzapple. Mark is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University where he researches technologies that improve sustainability.

With close to 30 years of experience as a researcher, Mark is constantly finding new ways to turn waste into useful products. So what's his take on obtaining fresh water from saltwater?

In this episode, you will learn about:

What desalination is, and how Mark got started working with it.
Techniques used to desalinate water, and how they have evolved over the years.
How reverse osmosis contributes to water desalination.
What vapor compression technology is, and why this may be the future of energy-efficient water desalination.

Imagine a world where freshwater is as plentiful as seawater… With the work that researchers like Mark Holtzapple are doing, this idea may be more realistic than you may think!

To find out more about Mark Holtzapple and his work, you can visit gfrc.tamu.edu.

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0:42.1	Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius podcast, now part of the Finding Genius Foundation.
0:43.1	I have a returning guest, Mark Holstappel.
0:46.2	He's a professor of chemical engineering at Texas A&M University.
0:50.0	This time we're going to talk about desalination or desalinization.
0:53.6	I tend to say both ways. Mark,
0:55.4	thanks for coming back. My pleasure. Yeah. Well, if you would tell me, why do you study this area?
1:01.9	What do you study desalination? Well, it actually goes back to the days before I was a professor. I was in
1:07.7	the in the Army, and we were trying to figure out how to desalinate water
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