Headquarters
Denver, Colorado
Engineering, process chemistry and operations.
There is no such thing as wastewater.
Powering America's next generation of industry through intelligent water recovery.
PWR enables essential industries like power generation, oil and gas, critical mineral extraction, and data center cooling to operate, expand, and thrive in a water constrained world.
Using advanced water technologies, we design and optimize water recovery systems that maximize uptime, minimize cost, and prepare industries for the future.
01 / How it works
Intake to reuse. One train.
Objects illustrative · not site photography
-
01Unconventional water in
produced · brackish · industrial · power
-
02Treatment fit to purpose
custom chemistry + desalination · mobile train
-
03Reuse quality water out
to reuse spec · Permian project
-
04Beneficial reuse
agriculture · municipal · industrial
Stage 02 draws from six technologies · see the arsenal ↓
02 / The vision
Water = Power
For the industries defining the next 50 years of American progress, water is an essential component.
-
01 · Power generation
Power plants need cooling water to run. ZLD requirements keep expanding, and discharge is getting harder to permit.
-
02 · Oil and gas
Every barrel comes with water. Disposal wells are filling up, costs are climbing, and regulators want that water recycled.
-
03 · Mining
Mines need water to process ore, and water holds up more projects than the ore does.
-
04 · Data centers
Data centers need water for cooling, and they are being built in places that do not have it.
The company
A full stack water treatment company. We design, build, and operate mobile or centralized water infrastructure. The plants we run inform the ones we design.
- 01 Characterize
- 02 Design
- 03 Build
- 04 Operate
03 / The arsenal
Technology agnostic.
Deploy a diverse arsenal of processes as needed.
Water is not one problem, so no single machine solves it. Processes are selected against your feed chemistry and your target spec, then sequenced and operated in house.
-
Flagship A1 LSRRO
Low salt rejection RO. Desalinates hypersaline brines on commercial membranes, as a standalone or concentrator for thermal.
produced · hypersaline · brackish
-
A2 MBR
Membrane bioreactor. Biology and solids separation in one compact stage.
industrial · municipal · organics
-
A3 Next gen adsorbents
Selective removal and recovery of organics and trace contaminants.
organics · trace contaminants
-
A4 Advanced softening/oxidation/biocides
Microbial control and radical chemistry ahead of the membranes.
pretreatment · membrane protection
-
A5 Proprietary biology
Biology tuned to a feed’s contaminant profile, run in contained systems, never released.
contained systems · tuned per feed
- Bearwolf OS · Train A Auto · 0 alarmsTreating
OS Bearwolf OS
The intelligence layer. Reads the water, sequences the arsenal, holds the product on spec.
ai orchestration · live characterization
04 / Field proven
In the field since 2019.
Powder River · Wyoming
Produced water recycling
Recycled into completions, not a disposal well.
DJ Basin · Colorado
Beneficial reuse
Returned to agricultural, municipal and industrial use.
Uinta · Utah
Process water treatment
Treated for reuse inside basin operations.
Permian · West Texas
Advanced desalination
Raw produced water treated to crop quality.
Adjacent · same water problem
Copper & uranium · mining water
Mining water treatment
Copper basins and uranium ISR, where permitting, not ore grade, sets the pace.
Operating since
2019 DJ · Powder River · Permian · Uinta
10,000 bbl / d active · all basins
Permian Basin
Raw produced water treated to near potable water quality, with agriculture and aquatic viability confirmed.
Leadership
-
James Rosenblum
Founder
- PhD, Ohio State University
- Research Assistant Professor, Colorado School of Mines
- Multiple process patents
-
Tyler Huggins
Chief operating officer
- PhD, CU Boulder
- Environmental engineering
- Multiple hard technology patents
05 / Contact
Talk to an engineer.
Feed characterization, offtake, siting, or +PWR on an existing train. The first conversation is technical, not commercial.