Undesert Corporation | Application Preview
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General Information
Business Registration Number: Undesert Corporation
Location: Los Alamos, NM, United States
Length of Operation: 1-5
Number of Employees: 1-10 Employees
Annual Gross Income: Less than $100k
Annual Gross Expense: Less than $100k
Open to Loans: YES
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Funding Usage
Scaling our current 5 barrel (~200 gallons per day) demo-scale water cleaning unit to a 200-barrel (~8,500 gallons) per day processing capacity, taking the world's dirtiest water (100,000 PPM TDS) down to water suitable for agriculture. We have demonstrate our tech to Shell Corporation as part of their GameChanger accelerator and participated in the Techstars accelerator as well.
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Business Plan
For each gallon of oil that comes out of the ground, 6 gallons of hazardous wastewater come with it. This water, called produced water, is pumped underground causing earthquakes or dumped into the ocean polluting water. A produced water disposal company in the Permian Basin pumps hundreds of thousands of gallons of this wastewater underground and is under pressure from authorities to find an alternate solution. We can clean this wastewater for less than it costs to dispose and use that to forest desertified land surrounding oil pipelines providing offsets for each member of the supply chain. This model scales well to displacing the $1 billion spent disposing of produced water in the Permian basin each year. 2 issued US patents, 2 issued international patents, 2 pending patents Aside from IP, our low manufacturing cost, low energy requirements, small footprint, high salt tolerance open tremendous sized markets from oil and gas to ocean water and municipal water desalination. In a warming world, water will only become more significant a resource.
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Self Identified Competition
1. Reverse Osmosis - cannot handle oil & gas produced water 2. Storing in barrels/chemical treatment - not scalable 3. Underground Disposal - causes earthquakes! and underground water pollution Existing water cleaning technologies like RO cannot process contaminates much beyond seawater, eliminating it from most industrial applications, it is also more energy intensive and generates 20% concentrated waste bring. The Undesert SWAP device can take any source of wastewater, including oil & gas produced water, to deionized water and dry salt (zero liquid discharge). We have demonstrated this chemically.
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