Our Mission:
Climate change, energy security, and water pollution are global issues that confront society today more than at any time in our past. The problems at the water-energy nexus are complex but offer opportunities to vastly change the way we currently treat wastewater and the ability to produce a sustainable biofuel source. We will be the preferred technology for advanced water treatment while providing alternatives to fossil fuels and addressing climate change.
What we do:
Algal Scientific's proprietary technology provides advanced treatment for municipal and industrial wastewater, while producing high amounts of algal biomass that can be used for biofuels. We design, build, and sell treatment systems incorporating factory assembled modules, then operate them for fees based on pollutant reduction. We are focused on producing clean water first, with biofuels as byproducts.
Why we do it:
Increasing federal and state regulations stipulating reduced effluent nitrogen and phosphorous concentrations (referred to as "nutrients") are creating a large and growing market for new advanced wastewater treatment infrastructure. There are 16,000 centralized and 170,000 decentralized waste water treatment plants spending $1.5 to $2B annually on nutrient removal.
How we do it:
Algae are some of the fastest growing life forms on earth. ASC's proprietary algal strains were selected for their unique ability to scrub massive amounts of nutrients from wastewater in relatively small low cost ponds or tanks. The unique characteristics of our algae strains and their very high densities also makes harvesting the algae significantly less expensive than algal farms that are growing algae with the primary purpose of producing biofuels.