WOW: a water treatment for any Liquid waste
by Adriano Marin
Founder President and Ceo
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www.wowwater.eu
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Rev.3
Issue: sept. 2015
WOW SOLUTION
Mission: 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
Liquids
Decontamination
through an innovative technology
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Water from any fluid…
…Separating
contaminating Molecules and
anions/cations are separated from
Water Molecules.
Pure Water is extracted from any
polluted solution
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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
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Water from any fluid…
…Improving
Up-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 before
offering
a Decontamination Factor increased by
orders of magnitudes.
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Water from any fluid…
…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
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Water from any fluid…
…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
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WOW TECHNOLOGY…
is a patented solution
Patent Application - N# PCT/IB2010/052342
Already allowed in some countries (e.g. China, Japan,
USA, Russia & Eurasia, Italy,…)
Patent Application - N# PCT/IB2013/054803
That already passed 1° exam with Patent EU bureau
Patent Application - N# ITCO2013A0066
Patent Application - N# CO2011U000008
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WOW TECHNOLOGY…
… is based on a discovery and on a proprietary thermoand 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.
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WOW SOLUTION’S PERFORMANCES
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 waste
from 1:5,000 to 1:100,000
Depending on TDS content
NO device residual contamination
at the end of treatment
NO additional waste
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WOW SOLUTION’S PERFORMANCES
SOME NUMERICAL ABATEMENT FACTORS with first prototype
ELEMENTS
DF
Cadmium (Cd)
15,500 Bromates
Chromium (Total)
18,360 Chlorites
Chromium VI
Iron (Fe)
Mercury (Hg)
Nitrites
ELEMENTS
9,400 Surfactants
DF
>37,329
>370
>5,350
18,370 Arsenic
>329,000
405,000 Barium
>72,000
2,285 Iron
>18,370
Chlorides
291 Manganese
Nitrates
>258 Lead
Sulfates
>261 Trichlorofluorometh.
Calcium
>113 Freon
Sodium
>380 Chloroform
Potassium
>808 Benzene/Toluene
359,000
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>270
>6,570
Laboratories used to perform measurements: ARPAV (PD), LENA - UNIPV, CNR (PD)
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>23,800
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538
1,640
FULL SCALE INDUSTRIAL DEPLOYMENT
at Nuclear repository of Saluggia (VC – Italy)
Average ≈410litres/day for 120 days
 total ≈50.000 Lt
Continuous
Operation:
pH = 4.6;
Initial liquid
characteristics:
Radioisotopes:
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.
LLW of
137Cs, 60Co, 241Am, 90Sr.
Certified DF Results
by British National Physics Lab. – NPL
by site operator and LENA – UNIPV Labs
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WOW SOLUTION’S ABATMENT FACTORS
with full scale industrial application
RADIOISOTOPES
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
>23.000
>238.400
>300.000
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>26.200
>66.760
>91.470
241Am
90Sr
>2.044(*)
Expected DF up to 106 if pH≈7
(*) output activity much lower than MDA
(**) Uncertainty 3%
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WOW SOLUTION’S advantages
Selective evaporative system, for any type
of contaminated solutions
Full control of drag/entrainment effect
Standard
process
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vs
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WOW
process
WOW SOLUTION’S advantages
Based on mathematical predictive model,
developed by WOW Technology.
Single stage evaporation in continuous mode
with max concentration control (no batch mode).
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WOW SOLUTION’S advantages
3 Streams
Purified
Liquid
input
outputs
Concentrated
Sludge
Liquid Waste
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.
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Capex and Opex Effectiveness
Given reported performances + no additional tools + no batch operation therefore:
less space =>
no consumable and less maintenance =>
less capital expenses
less operational expenses
WOW evaporator
Standard evaporator
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Minimal Residual Storages
The achieved Decontamination Effect allows to reduce the residual
contaminants’ size by 5 000 to 100 000 times more then known methods.
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Safer pollutants management
Operators 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.
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No Device Contamination
Wow device can be easily washed and decontaminated at the end of any process,
no additional waste is created
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WOW SOLUTION’S APPLICATIONS
Industrial Applications
• Nuclear
• Oil & Gas
• Pharmaceutics & Chemistry
• Zero Liquid Discharge
Industrial waste management
• Pure and Extra pure water
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WOW SOLUTION’S APPLICATIONS
Nuclear industry
Decommissioning of nuclear plants with unprecedented performance and
reduction of waste seizes
Fukushima-Daiichi Case Study
Based on public data, Wow Technology’s Solution can
reach a total Decontamination Factor (DF) 10000 13000 times greater than currently applied systems.
Solid Surface Decontamination
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.
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WOW SOLUTION’S APPLICATIONS
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.
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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.
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WOW SOLUTION’S APPLICATIONS
ZLD Industrial Waste Management
H2O
• On site treatment of Industrial highly
contaminated water (e.g. pickling
solutions), in order to reach the Zero Liquid
H2O
Discharge target instead of disposing for
indefinite time with unpredictable threats for
ZLD
Contaminated
Liquid
health and uncountable costs, is an
application of Wow Solution.
Solid
Contaminants
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WOW SOLUTION’S APPLICATIONS
ZLD Industrial Waste Management.
Exhaust strong acid solutions and liquid waste water resulting by pickling
process of stainless steel:
TYPICAL DF examples:
• Phosphates:
• Sulphates:
• Nitrates:
• Iron:
• Fluorides:
~ 10 000 times,
~ 8 000 times,
~ 300 times (it can be improved a lot),
> 50 000 times,
> 2780 times (with Activated Alumina).
Other possible applications of WOW TECHNOLOGY that are in progress:
purification of liquid used for processing steel’s surface.
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WOW SOLUTION’S APPLICATIONS
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.
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WOW TECHNOLOGY’S ADVANTAGES
and VALUES SUMMARY
1. Extraordinary Performance, mathematically modelled
e.g. for Nuclear Industry:
137Cs
DF > 335,000 for pH<7 solutions
137Cs
DF > 1,000,000 for pH≈7 solutions
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. No device contamination: reusable and safe device
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