Recovered Potential
Recovered Potential removes and recovers nitrogen from wastewater to help waste handlers meet regulations, prevent environmental pollution, and circularize the nitrogen economy. They use technology platforms such as electrochemical separations to enable low-cost, low-footprint, non-polluting wastewater treatment for producers and handlers of high-strength wastewaters – for example, anaerobic digestate, meat & poultry processing waste, or fertilizer waste. Their first wastewater treatment product, Electrochemical Stripping (ECS), selectively targets ammonia – a toxic pollutant to the wastewater handlers, and a valuable fertilizer to growers. The recovered fertilizer product serves to subsidize the cost of wastewater treatment. ECS has been developed in Prof. Will Tarpeh’s lab in Chemical Engineering over the last 7+ years. The team has spun out as Recovered Potential, a startup company, as of August 2025. ECS will be piloted at beef rendering facilities under the TomKat Innovation Transfer Grant.
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Team Members
Kindle Williams (Postdoc, ChemE), Jinyu Guo (PhD & Postdoc, ChemE), PI: Prof. Will Tarpeh (ChemE)