wow: a water treatment for any liquid waste

WOW WaterStrictly Confidential 1

WOW: a water treatment for any Liquid wasteby Adriano Marin

Founder President and Ceo

www.wowwater.euRev.3Issue: sept. 2015


WOW SOLUTIONMission: Research of new scientific solutions to

improve daily living and to offer back to humanity absolutely pure water, pure world and health without

using consumables.

we focus on

LiquidsDecontaminationthrough an innovative

technology


…Separating

contaminating Molecules and anions/cations are separated

from Water Molecules.

Pure Water is extracted from any polluted solution

Water from any fluid…


…Evaporating

Selective Evaporation is the basic technology on which we additionally

apply truly innovative WOW’s technology to achieve any level of

pure water is needed



…ImprovingUp-to-date decontamination

performances without using Additional Tools (i.e. membrane, distillation

column, demister, reflux, coalescer etc.) nor consumables,

while evaporation effectiveness improves at a level never experienced

beforeoffering

a Decontamination Factor increased by orders of magnitudes.



…Enhancing

“performance with

control” can become our claim

thanks to our discovery and to its mathematical model developed by us, we

can control the typical entrainment effect of any evaporation,

deciding what to allow to be dragged from the water molecules and what not



…Purifying

Water from any kind of contaminants: we eliminate bacteria, viruses, protozoa,

pathogens, parasites, toxins, any liquid or solid contaminant, every

vector of disease and any pollutant,

with “just” a mathematically modeled thermo- and fluid-dynamic process



is a patented solution

WOW TECHNOLOGY…

Patent Application - N# PCT/IB2010/052342Already allowed in some countries (e.g. China, Japan, USA, Russia & Eurasia, Italy,…)

Patent Application - N# PCT/IB2013/054803That already passed 1° exam with Patent EU bureau

Patent Application - N# ITCO2013A0066

Patent Application - N# CO2011U000008


… is based on a discovery and on a proprietary thermo- and fluid - dynamic process managed

by a Mathematical Model:

• Selective evaporative system, • Single continuous stage process ( no

batch ),• With full management of drag/entrainment

effect,• No additional tools needed, e.g.:

no filter or membrane, no demister device, no de-entrainment device & no mesh separators, no trays/plates bubble caps, no baffles suppression trays, no packing assembly, no column/tower distillation, no reflux distributor, no raschig rings, no liquid-vapor coalesce, no consumable.

Note: through these tools we can furtherly improve results.

WOW TECHNOLOGY…


DECONTAMINATION FACTOR of 137Cs

> 80,000 initially, then 335,000 with pH<7 solutions> 300,000 initially, then 1,000,000 with pH≈7solutions

CONCENTRATION RATE of residual wastefrom 1:5,000 to 1:100,000

Depending on TDS contentNO device residual contamination at the end of treatment

NO additional waste

WOW SOLUTION’S PERFORMANCES


ELEMENTS DFCadmium (Cd) 15,500Chromium (Total) 18,360Chromium VI 9,400Iron (Fe) 18,370Mercury (Hg) 405,000Nitrites 2,285Chlorides 291Nitrates >258Sulfates >261Calcium >113Sodium >380Potassium >808

ELEMENTS DFBromates >37,329Chlorites >370Surfactants >5,350Arsenic >329,000Barium >72,000Iron >18,370Manganese >23,800Lead 359,000Trichlorofluorometh. >270Freon >6,570Chloroform 538Benzene/Toluene 1,640

Laboratories used to perform measurements: ARPAV (PD), LENA - UNIPV, CNR (PD)

SOME NUMERICAL ABATEMENT FACTORS with first prototype

WOW SOLUTION’S PERFORMANCES


FULL SCALE INDUSTRIAL DEPLOYMENT at Nuclear repository of Saluggia (VC –

Italy)Continuous Operation:

Average ≈410litres/day for 120 days total ≈50.000 Lt

Initial liquid characteristics:

pH = 4.6;Fluorides <1mg/l; Chlorides ≈15mg/l; Nitrates <5mg/l; Sulfates ≈303mg/l; Phosphates Absent; Sodium ≈22mg/l; Potassium ≈11mg/l; Magnesium ≈6mg/l; Calcium ≈94mg/l, Silica… etc.

Radioisotopes: LLW of 137Cs, 60Co, 241Am, 90Sr.

by British National Physics Lab. – NPLby site operator and LENA – UNIPV Labs

Certified DF Results


(*) output activity much lower than MDA (**) Uncertainty 3%

WOW SOLUTION’S ABATMENT FACTORSwith full scale industrial application

RADIO-ISOTOPE

S

Certified DECONT. FACTORS (DF) by UNIPV - LENA

After 30 days

After 60 days

After 90 days

After 120 days

137Cs 80.000(**) 142.000(**) 270.000(**) 335.000(**)

60Co 56.000 178.300 >595.000 >890.000

241Am >23.000 >238.400 >300.000 -

90Sr >2.044(*) >26.200 >66.760 >91.470Expected DF up to 106 if pH≈7


WOW SOLUTION’S advantages

Selective evaporative system, for any type of contaminated solutions

Full control of drag/entrainment effect

Standardprocess

WOWprocess

vs



Based on mathematical predictive model, developed by WOW Technology.

Single stage evaporation in continuous mode with max concentration control (no batch mode).



3 Streams

Liquid Waste

PurifiedLiquid

ConcentratedSludge

inputoutputs

Wow is a molecular separator, therefore no additional waste is introduced in the process and only water and original pollutants are resulting from the process.


Capex and Opex EffectivenessGiven reported performances + no additional tools + no batch operation therefore:

less space => less capital expenses no consumable and less maintenance => less operational expenses

WOW SOLUTION’S values

Standard evaporator WOW evaporator


Minimal Residual StoragesThe achieved Decontamination Effect allows to reduce the residual contaminants’ size by 5 000 to 100 000 times more then known methods.



Safer pollutants managementOperators can work with liquid polluted solutions and can store semisolid residual waste therefore improving personnel safety. Liquids are easier to be handled while solids are easier to be stored, so term of improvement is for waste handling as well as for its disposal and maintenance.



No Device Contamination

Wow device can be easily washed and decontaminated at the end of any process, no additional waste is created



Industrial Applications

• Nuclear• Oil & Gas• Pharmaceutics &

Chemistry• Zero Liquid Discharge

Industrial waste management

• Pure and Extra pure water

WOW SOLUTION’S APPLICATIONS


Nuclear industry

Decommissioning of nuclear plants with unprecedented performance and reduction of waste seizes


Fukushima-Daiichi Case Study

Solid Surface Decontamination

Based on public data, Wow Technology’s Solution can reach a total Decontamination Factor (DF) 10000 -13000 times greater than currently applied systems.

WOW has designed and tested a special acid solution to be used as decontaminant agent on metal surfaces that can be then treated by WOW process: a Decontamination Factor of 250 has been obtained on a 20 years old cast iron oxidized and radioactive object.


Oil & Gas industry• Water depuration on Oil and Gas

extractive wells.

• Improvement of refinery maintenance and oil distillation performance as well as of related chemical processes with application of Wow Solution.

• Treatment of Oil Polluted water.



Pharmaceutical and Chemical industry• On site pure and ultrapure water

preparation for medical and pharmacological uses as well as for laboratory uses.

• Catalytic processes activation and control applied inside liquid solutions thanks to Wow Technology’s discovery and to its mathematical predictive model.



ZLD Industrial Waste Management

• On site treatment of Industrial highly contaminated water (e.g. pickling solutions), in order to reach the Zero Liquid Discharge target instead of disposing for indefinite time with unpredictable threats for health and uncountable costs, is an application of Wow Solution.

ZLD

H2O

H2O

Solid Contaminants

Contaminated Liquid



Exhaust strong acid solutions and liquid waste water resulting by pickling process of stainless steel:

TYPICAL DF examples:• Phosphates: ~ 10 000 times,• Sulphates: ~ 8 000 times,• Nitrates: ~ 300 times (it can be improved a lot),• Iron: > 50 000 times,• Fluorides: > 2780 times (with Activated Alumina).

Other possible applications of WOW TECHNOLOGY that are in progress:purification of liquid used for processing steel’s surface.


ZLD Industrial Waste Management.


Pure and Ultra pure water• On site treatment of water in order to

reach the extremely pure water level for the following applications:

1. Ultra pure Water for blood injection,

2. Ultra pure water for pharmaceutics,

3. Water for laboratories of analysis,

4. Water for semiconductor industry,

5. Etc.


Note: WOW method is alternative to other traditional systems e.g. R.O.


Extraordinary Performance, mathematically modelled 137Cs DF > 335,000 for pH<7

solutions 137Cs DF > 1,000,000 for pH≈7 solutions

1.

2. Capex & Opex effectiveness:No additional tools, nor consumables

3. Minimized Residual waste volume:from 1:5,000 to 1:100,000

4. No additional waste:just separation of pure water and waste

5. Safer pollutants volumes management:liquid handling

solid storage

6.

WOW TECHNOLOGY’S ADVANTAGES and VALUES SUMMARY

e.g. for Nuclear Industry:

No device contamination: reusable and safe device

wow: a water treatment for any liquid waste

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