Hydratico
Hydratico provides fast, modular, CO2-neutral water treatment stations that convert any available water source—including seawater, contaminated rivers, and industrial wastewater—into safe drinking water. The stations use a supercavitation-based hydrodynamic evaporation process that achieves up to 1200 kg of steam per hour per m² of evaporation surface with minimal energy consumption, and require no consumables like membranes or filters.
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Product
Problem
Communities, industrial sites, military units, and emergency responders often lack access to reliable drinking water due to remote locations, contaminated local sources, or infrastructure damage. Traditional water treatment systems are typically large, slow to deploy, and energy-intensive, making them unsuitable for rapid response and small-scale or temporary needs.
Solution
Hydratico offers fast, modular, and CO2-neutral water treatment stations that convert any available water source—including seawater, mining runoff, contaminated rivers, lakes, and even chemical industry wastewater—into safe drinking water. Each station uses electrophysical forces during the treatment process to destroy toxic substances, microflora, and organic admixtures, yielding exceptionally clean water. The core technology relies on an intensified evaporation process that occurs on the surface of a supercavern, a vapor-air bubble up to 900 mm long that forms behind a supercavitating element, enabling efficient evaporation with minimal energy consumption. The modular construction enables configurations ranging from 1 to 100 m³/hr of production capacity, supporting both small mobile units and larger stationary installations. This flexibility allows deployment for detached local communities, sea vessels, military units, emergency services, and other applications where conventional water infrastructure is unavailable or compromised.
Target Audience
Hydratico's primary customers include operators of remote communities, sea vessels, military units, emergency services, and industrial facilities that need reliable, rapidly deployable drinking water treatment from non-standard water sources.
Features
- Modular station design with production capacities from 1 to 100 m³/hr of drinking water
- Supercavitation-based hydrodynamic evaporation achieving up to 1200 kg of steam per hour per m² of evaporation surface with a temperature difference of only 6–12 °C
- Treatment process leverages electrophysical forces to eliminate toxic substances, microflora, and organic contaminants
- CO2-neutral operation throughout the treatment cycle, avoiding the fossil-fuel emissions of traditional desalination
- Compatible with diverse feed sources: seawater, mining water, contaminated river and lake water, and chemical industry wastewater, handling organic content up to 100,000 mg/l and salt content up to 70,000 mg/l
- No consumables such as membranes, cartridges, or filters required during desalination or wastewater treatment
- From 100 m³ of seawater, up to 94 m³ of fresh water and 6 m³ of concentrated brine are recovered, with the option to obtain a dry salt residue
- Technology prevents the formation of organochlorine compounds (dioxins) during treatment