RenewH20

Wastewater recycling is a critical tool to alleviate dire water stress around the world, but today's approaches are too energy-intensive and too costly to achieve broad market adoption. Our process radically reduces the energy and space required to treat wastewater for non-potable reuse like irrigation and toilet flushing, while separating and concentrating the energy-rich solids that can produce renewable electricity. The resulting system can produce valuable recycled water and surplus green energy. After testing and development at Stanford’s Codiga Resource Recovery Center, we are designing modular, containerized treatment units to enable rapid, low-cost deployment and easy scalability to plants from 200m3/d to tens of thousands of cubic meters per day (~1,000 people to millions).

Team Members

Himanshu Khuntia (Postdoc, CEE/CR2C), Sebastien Tilmans (Executive Director, CR2C), Craig Criddle (Prof. Emeritus, CEE/CR2C), Bill Mitch (PI, Professor, CEE/CR2C), Ken Stedman, MicroMedia Filtration