WASE
Company Details
- Location
- Bristol, United Kingdom
- Website
- https://wase.co.uk/
- Founded
- 2017
- Employees
- 11-25
- Funding
- USD $1M-$5M
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About WASE
The problem we're solving:
Globally 80% of wastewater is currently dumped untreated, polluting our environment. To tackle the issues, regulators are increasing restrictions for untreated discharge.
As a result, industries are scrambling to find solutions to deal with their wastewater. In most cases, companies are forced to pay £100,000's a year for trucks to collect the wastewater and transport it to specialist treatment facilities.
Additional pressures from energy price increases create a difficult environment.
Our solution:
The onsite wastewater-to-energy solution removes high transportation costs and enables users to meet regulations.
The customer can turn the high wastewater treatment costs into a valuable energy source that can offset 30% of the energy requirements and decarbonise their electrical and thermal demands.
The modular solution can be manufactured offsite and deployed quickly with minimal disruption to the customer.
Our differentiator:
We have developed a process called Electro-Methanogenisis which accelerates the breakdown of organics into methane.
We have a proprietary membrane-less electrode technology that enables us to treat a wider variety of waste streams compared to competitors and reduces costs.
Anaerobic Digestion is our closest competitive technology but we can:
- Increase energy by >20%
- Treat waste up to 10X faster
- Treat the waste 30-50% more to meat new regulations
- Biosensing for realtime feedback.
Our biggest achievement:
9-month customer demonstration moving tech from TRL 5 to 7. Closed £1.7 million in sales contracts with 5 customers Commercial unit ready for deployment in October 2023. Research contract with GRDF (French Gas Distribution Network) Partnership with Hitachi's Wastewater team.