Increase water recycling and safe reuse with AI

Exploratory research

Orbital Systems

Project carriers:
ORBITAL SYSTEMS is a Swedish clean-tech company that develops a water recycling technology to be used in domestic appliances.
Beneficiaries:
Family and nature
Users:
Family
Need:
Showers account for 50% of our household water consumption. This is unreasonable in a world where water scarcity is becoming an increasingly common challenge.
Principle:
Dirty water is replaced with new while the rest is cleaned and filtered on impuritier while your shower.With track showers, you can shower comfortably for a long time while using up to 90% less water and 80% less energy.
Main technologies:
Sensor, AI
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Fibracast

Project carriers:
Anaergia is a global leader in the production of clean energy, fertilizer, and recycled water from virtually any waste stream, offering the widest range of maximized resource recovery technologies for the municipal, industrial, commercial, and agricultural markets.
Beneficiaries:
Factories, farmers and nature
Users:
Factories, farmers
Need:
THEY convert waste into useful resources, protect the environment, and sustain life for generations to come.
Principle:
  1. Irrigation Water: Anaergia’s proven water reuse technology recovers and treats effluent wastewater to surface discharge standards, providing a sustainable and cost-effective solution to increase crop yields.
  2. Process Water: Tailored solutions recover water from a variety of waste streams. Product water can meet specifications for any facility process from fire suppression to cooling towers to boilers to upstream dilution.
  3. Wastewater Reuse Water for Sale: Facilities can purify wastewater into a renewable resource, to meet specifications required by neighboring industrial users, providing reuse benefits and an additional revenue stream for the host facility.
Main technologies:
FibrePlate™ hybrid membrane technology is a next generation membrane bioreactor for wastewater treatment that combines the strengths of hollow fibre and flat plate membranes and eliminates the weaknesses of each.
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IX Power Clean Water

Project carriers:
IX Power Clean Water, Inc.
Beneficiaries:
Families, crops, and communities
Users:
Famers, factories and communities
Need:
They want to help industry all over the world create a closed water loop, leaving clearwater resources for people, animals, and to grow food.
Principle:
The modular design of IX Water machines allows for stand-alone operation or integration with existing treatment systems. Each transportable module treats from 2,500 to 5,000 bbls barrels a day (bbls/day) and can be ganged to process up to 50,000 bbl/day. Increased treatment volume is achieved by adding additional modules.
Main technologies:
IX Water machines including AI, Sensor, CSTR and so on
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Nexus eWater

Project carriers:
Nexus eWater Inc.
Beneficiaries:
Families and nature
Users:
Families
Need:
to reduce energy consumption and household water use
Principle:
Nexus eWater has developed the world's first in-home water and energy recycling system. The patented solution, the eWater Recycler, recycles 67% of indoor water, reduces energy related to water heating by 80%, and slashes sewer flow by up to 70%. The eWater Recycler offers, for the first time, an affordable, reliable solution to onsite domestic water recycling and wastewater heat recovery. Customers include new home developers, utility companies, and homeowners.
Main technologies:
AI, sensor and so on.
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Deepening research in

Orbital systems

Carriers and actors of the project:
Orbital systems Inc. It is a Swedish clean-tech company that develops a water recycling technology to be used in domestic appliances.
Research question:
How can we reduce domestic water use in the home?
The reason you selected this project:
Household use accounts for a large part of water consumption. Effective reduction of household water consumption can greatly reduce water consumption and water fee.Orbital Shower does not only offer cutting-edge technology and an exceptional shower experience. It’s a good investment too. The investment cost of 49,900 SEK will cost you an average of 50 SEK / month if you include it in your mortgage. At the same time, the average family makes water and energy equal to 1200 SEK a month with the Orbital Shower*.

User scenario

Users:
Smart Home Appliance lovers, and environmentalist.
Persona:
  1. First name: Nilssons family.
  2. Place of residence:Living in the south of Sweden.
  3. Family status: The Nilssons are an active family of four.
  4. Income:60,000€/year.
  5. Needs, desires, dreams: A typical week they take 25 showers, each taking 10 minutes.They want to reduce water consumption and water fee.
  6. Major issue related to the subject: To use nature's resources smarter, they've installed an Orbital Shower.
Key features:
  1. Choose your shower
  2. Installation
  3. Activation of the shower
  4. Start saving!
  5. See for yourself how much you can save.
UX storyboard:

Technical analysis

General principle:
Dirty water is replaced with new while the rest is cleaned and filtered on impuritier while your shower.With track showers, you can shower comfortably for a long time while using up to 90% less water and 80% less energy.
Technical overview - AI version:
The sensors monitor water quality 20 times per second. Water that is too dirty for efficient filtering is replaced with new fresh water. The rest of the time, the water goes through the purification loop, filtering out all impurities, again and again for as long as you shower.Information about your water and energy savings is processed to the Cloud, so that you can access it online or in the app.Your shower water is purified in real-time using a filter capsule and a UV-light to achieve even cleaner water than the one from your tap. In the smart user interface you can change your water temperature, check your water savings and much more. As water loops through the purification and reheating process, the internal pump makes sure you always get a constantly luxurious high water flow rate. The internal heater comfort-corrects water to the precise temperature chosen, replacing any heat lost as the water loops through the system.The sensors analyse the water quality 20 times per second, deciding whether to recirculate the water or not.
Added value thanks to Artificial Intelligence:
AI detects water intelligently and detects the amount of water used.

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