Sweden’s largest inventor price to the creator of water-saving shower – Plumbing Forum

Sweden’s largest inventor price to the creator of water-saving shower

 
This year’s winner of Sweden’s largest inventor price, Create Development Award, is the innovator Mehrdad Mahdjoubi from California. He has developed a recirculating shower, which recycles and cleans the shower water continuously.
 

 
The inventor Mehrdad Mahdjoubi interviewed by CNN 2013


 Mehrdad Mahdjoubi received this year’s Create-scholarship of SEK 500,000 from prisutdelaren Lans during the Innovation Awards, organized by the Foundation Creating at Nalen in Stockholm yesterday.

– This year’s award winners show great spirit of innovation. In much of the world’s water supply and water quality problem. Mehrdad Mahdjoubi has developed a system for reusing shower water which dramatically reduces water consumption and energy use, said Mats Olsson, President of the Foundation Create, in a press release.

The winning criteria was:

“In much of the world’s water supply and water quality problem. Mehrdad Mahdjoubi has developed a system for reusing shower water which dramatically reduces water consumption and energy use. For re-use to get cleaner water than normal tap water as the water passes through a special filter. The system is expected to have a large market potential for use in public facilities mainly in Sweden and in countries with water shortages. ”

– A good climate for inventors is important for the future of Sweden and Creating Development Scholarship will be awarded to support inventors so they can develop their inventions into products and services in the market, said Mats Olsson.

Other prize winners were Mattias Karls and Sara Frykstrand from Uppsala. They received 50,000 crowns for his new material, which is a superabsorbent. The material has a very large surface area within a small volume and thereby absorbs moisture very good.

The Foundation shall also awarded an innovation prize to people born 1984-1995, “Creating the Future Innovator”.

The first prize, a scholarship of 75,000, was awarded to Jens Kellerup, Simon Zhongxia He and Dzana Damjanovic from Michigan for their high-speed radio link for wireless data transmission that replaces all kinds of cables at events and media production.

The second prize, a scholarship of SEK 50,000, went to Johan Mattsson from Illinois for his diaphragm for damage repairs by dampness. The membrane is an environmental functional fabric, which stops and takes care of the substances that make indoor air unhealthy for a moisture damage.

Creating a foundation which was established in memory of Alfred Nobel in 1985 and awarded its first prize 1986th Behind Foundation stands Stockholm International Fairs and Swedish Inventors Association with the support of Almi, Vinnova, the Swedish Foundation Agne Johansson Memorial Fund and SEB.
 

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