Hydron provides a solvent‑based desalination platform that extracts freshwater directly from extreme brines without membranes, delivering lower levelized cost of water than thermal or membrane systems. The technology can use waste heat, handles any salinity and common industrial additives, and offers high recovery rates for challenging wastewater streams such as produced water, mining, geothermal, and DLE operations.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Conventional desalination methods—thermal distillation and membrane filtration—are expensive, energy‑intensive, and often unable to treat hypersaline or chemically complex industrial waste streams, leading to high water costs and limited water recovery for sectors such as mining, geothermal, and oil‑field produced water.
Solution
Hydron offers a solvent‑based desalination platform that extracts freshwater directly from extreme brines without relying on membranes. The process operates at lower levelized cost of water (LCOW) than thermal or membrane systems and can be powered by waste heat, reducing external energy requirements. Because the solvent selectively dissolves water, the technology tolerates a wide range of salinities and common water additives, enabling high recovery rates from streams that conventional systems cannot handle. The modular design allows integration into existing industrial water‑treatment loops, providing a cost‑effective solution for challenging wastewater streams.
Target Audience
Primary customers are operators of produced‑water treatment, direct‑liquefied‑extraction (DLE), mining, geothermal, and other industries that generate hypersaline or chemically complex wastewater.
Features
- Solvent‑based extraction eliminates the need for high‑pressure membranes or boiling, lowering capital and operating expenses
- Compatible with waste heat sources, reducing external energy consumption
- Handles any salinity level, from moderate to hypersaline, without performance loss
- Tolerates typical industrial additives and contaminants, maintaining solvent efficacy
- High water recovery rates achieved in a single treatment step
- Modular platform that can be retrofitted into existing process lines