UAEU and Japan’s Akita University establish collaboration to co-develop new CMPWT technology

UAEU and Japan’s Akita University establish collaboration to co-develop new CMPWT technology

Sat 11-12-2021 15:08 PM





























ALAIN, 11th December, 2021 (WAM) -- A team of researchers from the United Arab ‎Emirates University and Akita University in ‎Japan are developing a new technology for ‎Ceramic Membrane-based Produced Water ‎Treatment (CMPWT)‎.

Within the framework of the strategic ‎partnership, research cooperation and student ‎exchange between the United Arab Emirates ‎University UAEU and Akita University in ‎Japan, which began in 2018, a team of ‎researchers and innovators in the joint ‎laboratory between the Department of ‎Geosciences, College of Science, UAEU - and ‎Akita University in Japan enabled to use of a ‎new water treatment technology based on ‎ceramic membranes, and an advanced ‎technological device that separates water from ‎oil, to remove solid impurities and particles ‎known as "Ceramic Membrane-based ‎Produced Water Treatment Technology ‎‎(CMPWT)".

In the presence of Prof. Hakim ‎Saibi, Department of Geosciences, College of ‎Science, researchers and experts: Nakamura Arata, Kawamura Kazuyuki, ‎and Ikeda Keisuke, representatives of the ‎Japanese companies of oil, gas and water ‎sector: INPEX and JOGMEC, and a number of ‎researchers and students in the joint laboratory ‎on the university campus‏.‏

Prof. Hakim Saibi, Department of Geosciences, ‎College of Science,