Metal Recovery from Wastewater: The Future of Wastewater Mining

Wastewater Mining: the untapped source of Critical Raw Materials Europe’s search for critical raw materials is often framed around finding new critical material sources in allied countries that reduce reliance on more hostile states. Discussions also focus on the recycling of metal products once they reach the end of their lives. These measures will all […]

Deep Sea secret: How Supercritical Water Recovers Metals

Deep Sea secret: How Supercritical Water Recovers Metals Deep in the ocean, thousands of meters below the surface, nature performs a strange kind of magic. Near hydrothermal vents, where extreme pressure meets volcanic heat, water enters a “fourth state” (beyond the three most of us know: solid, liquid, and gas), defined as the supercritical state. In that moment, water is neither a liquid nor a gas. it is a powerful, high-energy fluid that behaves unlike anything we see on the surface. And here’s the magic. At our facility, we haven’t just studied this phenomenon; we’ve mastered it. Through our SWaP™ (Supercritical Water Precipitation) process, we bring the power of the deep ocean into our plant to solve one of the industry’s toughest challenges: metal recovery from industrial wastewater. The potential of supercritical water  In nature, supercritical water […]