Tomorrow Water Secures New Patent for Energy Efficient Wastewater Treatment
Advances Commitment to Meet United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Anaheim, CA (July 25, 2024) – Tomorrow Water, a global environmental solutions provider, today announces the recent award of a new United States patent for its two-stage Anammox nitrogen removal process “AMX” optimized for mainstream wastewater treatment applications. This is an essential step towards energy neutral or positive wastewater treatment facilities furthering Tomorrow Water’s commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The announcement comes in the wake of Tomorrow Water’s recent invited presentations of its mainstream Anammox technology at California WEA, WEF ITT, and SIWW as well as the scheduled presentation at the upcoming WEFTEC2024 in New Orleans.
The patent, titled: Partial Nitritation Using Sequencing Batch Reactor with Media Inputted thereinto, and Apparatus and System for Shortcut Nitrogen Removal Using Same, includes Tomorrow Water’s AMX technology, which is a 2-stage Anammox short-cut nitrogen removal process. This patented technology is a next-generation treatment solution that can help industrial companies and municipal utilities achieve their wastewater treatment goals with less energy, chemicals, and sludge produced.
“This new patent is an integral part of our technical response to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals call for action”, says Mr. EF Kim, CEO of Tomorrow Water, “we are addressing climate change and the economic and social disparities that threaten the future prosperity of the planet by contributing to clean water & sanitation (SDG 6), affordable clean energy (SDG 7), industry, innovation, and infrastructure (SDG 9), and climate action (SDG 13). Tomorrow Water’ vision is to transform the sewage treatment model to go beyond profit-making and provide a positive social impact”
“This patent confirms our leadership in the development of mainstream Anammox wastewater treatment, which is the holy grail for nitrogen removal”, says Dr. David Rhu, CTO of Tomorrow Water and the patent co-inventor. “Performing partial nitritation stably in the conventional shortcut nitrogen removal process has always been problematic with the difficult to continuously hold the generated ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) in a partial nitritation reactor. Additionally, an environment suitable for the growth of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB) is always created so that nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB) continuously grow and oxidize nitrite nitrogen to nitrate nitrogen, results in ruining partial nitritation. The patent addresses such limitations and opening the door to sustainably reduce the environmental impact of nitrogen pollution.”
"Mainstream AMX" is a key element of Tomorrow Water’s "tomorrow water process" (twp), a comprehensive wastewater treatment solution integrating Proteus+, with a single stage primary/secondary treatment, with "Mainstream AMX". twp symbolizes Tomorrow Water's vision of making wastewater treatment more affordable for underserved communities and developing countries. twp reduces treatment time from more than 10 hours to almost 3 hours, saving money, energy, GHGs, and space.
About Tomorrow Water
Through innovative technology and thought leadership, Tomorrow Water is minimizing the global environmental impact of wastewater treatment, while delivering sustainable, practical, and economical solutions. Tomorrow Water offers integrated solutions and services for Municipal and Industrial water, wastewater process, and residuals management through an integrated turnkey approach. Tomorrow Water is committed to building sustainable waste and wastewater management systems, integrating low-energy wastewater treatment, energy production and other crucial elements of modern infrastructure. BKT Co Ltd. is the parent company of Tomorrow Water.
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