Industrial Products

Commercial/Industrial System

Patent-pending purification and desalination technology

Only system known to address all five categories of water contaminants
Able to handle highly contaminated feedwater, >100,000 ppm TDS
Core technology proven and certified in residential product
All system technologies proven in commercial applications

Lowest maintenance and operating cost

No membranes or heat exchangers
Reduced energy requirements
Small footprint, compact design – portable up to 10,000 GPD
Factory assembled modules reduce installation time and cost
Self-cleaning components, less susceptible to scale

Energy flexible—can utilize any heat source, including waste heat and renewable

Carbon neutral in waste heat and renewable configurations

Smallest waste stream, waste product is reclaimable and recyclable

Incorporates Sylvan Source Patent-Pending Designs and Know-How

Large-Scale Technology Comparison

1. For production systems.

Energy Flexible

Sylvan Source can utilize heat from a wide range of sources, including:

Conventional - Coal, oil, gas, electric
Renewable - Solar, Wind
Sustainable - Geothermal
Various waste heat sources

Sylvan Source technology is inherently more thermodynamically efficient than other thermal systems while operating at near atmospheric pressure, eliminating complicated and unreliable vacuum systems.

Sylvan Source technology recovers heat more efficiently over a wider range of conditions than other approaches.

Sylvan Source technology enables operation in super-saturated conditions whereas all other systems can only operate in sub-saturated conditions.

Reverse Osmosis systems can not utilize waste heat.

Advantage in Waste Brine Disposal

Waste volume increases dramatically with salinity

For a one million GPD plant:

MSF plants discharge waste brine up to ~63K ppm
RO plants discharge waste brine up to ~60K ppm
Sylvan Source discharges waste brine up to ~250K ppm at 99° C

Sylvan Source waste brine begins to crystallize as soon as it cools down

Waste can be handled as a slurry
Waste compounds are valuable and reclaimable/recyclable

Carbon Neutral, Environmental Benefits

A growing focus for several regions around the world.

Where power plants are integrated with desalination facilities, Sylvan Source technology provides a smaller carbon footprint due to (a) higher energy efficiency, and (b) lower volume of reject water.

In addition, Sylvan Source technology:

Can replace condensers and cooling towers in conventional thermal plants
Has the potential to provide clean make-up boiler water without a separate deionization facility
Can significantly reduce water consumption in geothermal power plants
Can significantly reduce the environmental impact of nuclear power plants

Maintenance Cost Comparison

Tests Results

Sylvan Source technology has been tested and certified based on NSF International's Standard 62. Additional testing from NSF include:

1. These are proxies developed by SRI International and validated by NSF International to represent thousands of chemicals in the volatile gases and liquids category.

Copies of NSF test reports can be found in the Certification and Testing section.

Sylvan Source also conducted an internal contamination reduction test. The results are shown in the the graph below:

Sodium Chloride (NaCl) is a reasonable proxy for “salts” such as nitrates, sulfates, chlorides, perchlorate; and heavy metals such as lead, mercury, antimony and arsenic present in water as salts.

Isopropyl alcohol (IPA) is a reasonable proxy for Dioxin, Phenol, EPTC, chloroneb, epichlorohydrin, trans-nonachlor, and endosulfan sulfate.

Methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) is a reasonable proxy for MTBE, PCBs, acetone, chlordane, trifluralin, nitroso-diphenylamine, DBCP, di nitro toluene, and diethyl phthalate.

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