Earth911 Podcast: 374Water CEO Kobe Nagar on Transforming Wastewater Into New Materials

Earth911 Podcast: 374Water CEO Kobe Nagar on Transforming Wastewater Into New Materials

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Kobe Nagar, CEO of Durham, North Carolina-based 374Water, explains the corporate’s compact wastewater processing know-how, the Supercritical Water Oxidation (AirSCWO) system. Operating the system generates vitality, industrial CO2, trinitrogen gases that can be utilized in manufacturing, distilled water, and minerals extracted from wastewater, making it extraordinarily reasonably priced as an answer for a lot of water remedy makes use of. The smallest model matches in a transport container and might clear the wastewater generated by communities of as few as 6,000 individuals — or the equal quantity of commercial waste. The AirSCWO system could be scaled as much as help 30,000 or 200,000 individuals and all kinds of industrial applications, together with eradicating and destroying PFAS, the “perpetually chemical compounds” discovered all through the setting, water provides, and human our bodies. And water is simply step one for the corporate, Kobe shares. The oxidation course of may convert plastics and different stable wastes into reusable raw materials.

Kobe Nagar, CEO of 374Water
Kobe Nagar, CEO of 374Water, is our visitor on Sustainability in Your Ear.

Water, together with air and land, is one in every of our most vital sources. We want it to hydrate our our bodies, to make a lot of what we eat and use day-after-day, and we use it to hold away our waste. By treating wastewater, as a substitute of dumping it again into the setting, we protect this valuable useful resource so we are able to use it once more. You can be taught extra about 274Water, which is traded on the NASDAQ below the image SCWO, at 374water.com