Assistant Vice President for External Research Cooperation and Consulting in the Office of Vice President for Research, Dr. Salman Al-Sabah stated that the Research Sector at Kuwait University is working on developing research work and developing research capabilities of faculty members in pursuit of excellence and continuity. In this context, the Patent and Intellectual Property Office at MIT Institute in the United States of America has registered two patents in the mechanical engineering and bio / electrical engineering departments
obtained by researcher Dr. Bader Shafaqa Al-Enezi from the Department of Environmental Technology at the College of Life Sciences along with professors at MIT Institute .
The patent was announced and certified by the American Patent Office under the title;
The invention provides promising solutions to the environmental challenges facing our country and the region as a result of polluted water resulting from various uses (oil sector, water distillation plants), as this invention helps to research the technical and economic feasibility of ICP (ion concentration) for treating highly saline water, by adopting Multistage ICP process with better energy efficiency.
This invention is used to treat brine expelled from water distillation plants to produce low and highly saline water.
These inventions are part of a scientific collaboration between Kuwait University and MIT Institute in Boston - USA on a research project titled "The Next Generation of Desalination and Water Management for Efficiency, Reliability and Sustainability". The research project was supported by Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, under the supervision of Dr. Bader Shafaqa Al-Enezi, who is the project lead investigator and associate researcher at MIT in the field of water desalination and environmental science and technology, along with his research team; Prof. Haitham Lababidi (Associate Researcher) and Dr. Hamad Al-Adwani (Associate Researcher).
Dr. Al-Sabah added that the results of this agreement will work to achieve the supreme goal of improving the environmental sustainability of Kuwaiti water, as the State of Kuwait relies heavily on desalination of sea water to meet its freshwater needs.
Kuwait University represented by the Research Sector is committed to enhance joint scientific cooperation with universities and research institutes around the world, as well as exchange of experiences between faculty members at Kuwait University and researchers from other universities.