UPDATES
Covalent’s Water Membrane Products Receive Two New Grants from the Department of Energy. May 2017. *
Two new grants were awarded by the Department of Energy to assist on moving the water Purification products and the Desalination products forward. One grant is focused on cost reduction of the Covalent water cartridge. Analysis of human history reveals that the basis of health and prosperity is the presence of abundant, clean, low cost water. The Covalent filtration membranes already operate at the lowest energy use possible under the laws of Nature while delivering high purity water. Keeping the cost of goods low enables delivering high purity water at low cost.
Covalent Membranes Are Featured as the Face of the Department of Energy’s Small Business Innovation Program. July 2016.
In an exceptional honor, the Covalent membranes become the featured image on the splash page for the Department of Energy Advanced Manufacturing Office website. “The most atomically precise material ever built.”
Covalent Presents at the Department of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Peer Review. June 2016.
US Department of Energy Award for Scale-up of the 2D Manufacturing system. April 2016. *
Covalent was awarded an SBIR Phase 2 Grant for scale-up of automated, massively parallel membrane manufacturing system for the 2D membranes. The proof of concept of the system had been developed during a Phase 1 grant.
Covalent and Agua Via invited to the White House Water Summit.
March 2016. Agua Via and Covalent participated in the White House Water Summit being held on World Water Day in Washington, D.C. The purpose of this exclusive event was to raise awareness of priority water issues for the US and the world.
Covalent Invited to Advise US President’s Office of Management & Budget on National Water Strategy.
January 2016. Fewer than a dozen water industry experts were invited to the Office of Management and Budget to advise on national water strategy. Covalent’s 2D membranes represented the future of water technology.
Covalent invited to attend the US President’s White House Roundtable on Water Innovation. December 2015.
US National Science Foundation (NSF) Awards Covalent a Grant for development of a commercial-scale, real time Quality Assurance system for membrane manufacturing.
December 2015. No commercial system exists that would allow for Quality Assurance to be carried out in real time on the manufacturing of a 2D membrane. The National Science Foundation awarded an SBIR Phase 1 Grant that would enable the creation of a system that could monitor the 2D membranes being formed and know that they were being manufactured properly.
Covalent 2D Membrane Manufacturing Wins Grant from US Department of Energy. *
February 2015. The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded Covalent an SBIR Phase 1 Grant for development of commercial-scale, massively parallel manufacturing of its 2D membranes. These are the world’s first 2D materials. Although built in commercial sizes, all the work to build the membranes has been done by hand, one membrane at a time. The Department of Energy awarded a grant to begin the development of an automated manufacturing system that would lead to the ability to make thousands of membranes at a time.
* THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MEMBRANE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY HAS BEEN SPONSORED BY THE US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY