Experience Rooted in Process Control, Research, and Innovative Problem Solving Solutions

Advanced Water Purification (Direct Potable Reuse)
Over a decade of experience turning treated wastewater (effluent) into high-purity potable water that meets and exceeds advanced purification standards. We guide clients from strategy through implementation, delivering resilient, compliant solutions that optimize resource recovery, ensure reliability, and sustain long-term water security. We created Arizona's first advanced water purification demonstration system which ultimately led to ADEQ rulemaking changes allowing for direct potable reuse and currently being enacted in Scottsdale, Phoenix and Tucson.  The mobile demonstration facility received the WateReuse Project of the Year and made appearances in Austin, El Paso, Denver, Boise, Tucson, Phoenix, Flagstaff, Prescott, and Yuma and multiple conferences showcasing the technology and public outreach garnering support for reuse advanced water purification.

Energy Optimization and Decarbonization

Extensive expertise in wastewater utility operations delivering comprehensive energy audits and practical decarbonization strategies that reduce operating costs, improve resilience, and support long-term climate goals. By analyzing energy use across treatment processes, pumping, aeration, solids handling, odor control, and resource-recovery systems, we identify high-impact and efficiency opportunities for developing actionable implementation roadmaps. From utility-scale energy benchmarking and capital planning, we offer renewable-energy integration, electrification, biogas optimization, and emissions reduction strategies helping wastewater agencies convert complex operational data into measurable energy savings and a credible path toward lower-carbon treatment and resiliency.

Biogas Cleaning and Renewable Natural Gas Production
We specialize in helping wastewater utilities maximize biogas value through integrated optimization and renewable natural gas (RNG) upgrading strategies. We evaluate digester performance, gas quality, energy balances, and operating constraints to increase methane recovery and develop reliable treatment trains that remove moisture, hydrogen sulfide, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and carbon dioxide while purifying methane to pipeline or vehicle-fuel-quality specifications. Our experience with pressure swing adsorption, membrane separation, water-wash, and amine-scrubbing systems providing technology evaluation, process design support, commissioning guidance, and operational optimization converting biogas into a dependable low-carbon energy resource.

Emerging Contaminants and PFAS Treatment
We stay at the forefront of emerging-contaminant research, monitoring, and risk-management strategies to help water and wastewater utilities protect public health, maintain regulatory readiness, and make sound long-term investments. We combine source-control and prevention approaches with treatment evaluation and implementation support for contaminants of concer including total trihalomethanes (TTHMs), N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), haloacetic acids (HAAs), microplastics, and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Our expertise includes source investigations to advanced treatment assessments, pilot testing, monitoring programs, and operational optimization.

Resource Recovery and Side Stream Treatment
We help wastewater utilities turn treatment challenges into valuable resource opportunities.  We advance conventional nutrient removal into integrated nutrient recovery and are at the leading edge of side-stream treatment and recovery strategies, including high-rate ammonia removal from centrate and filtrate, struvite-control programs, and phosphorus recovery systems producing reusable fertilizer products.  We evaluate treatment performance, nutrient loading, chemical demand, solids impact, regulatory requirements, lifecycle cost, and market considerations, to develop practical, facility-specific roadmaps for technologies.  From feasibility studies and pilot testing through design support, commissioning, and optimization, we help clients reduce nutrient loads, prevent uncontrolled scaling, lower operating costs, improve plant capacity, and capture the long-term value of recovered resources.

Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Safety
We provide specialized expertise in anaerobic digestion system design, optimization, and biogas safety for wastewater utilities seeking to improve solids management performance and recover more value from their treatment processes.  We provide support integrating robust biogas handling, conditioning, storage, flare, pressure relief, ventilation, gas detection, and hazardous area safety systems. Our experience includes digestion intensification strategies such as thermal hydrolysis, which improves solids destruction and reduction of residual biosolids volume, enhanced dewaterability, and increases biogas production.  By aligning process performance, energy recovery, safety requirements, and lifecycle economics, we help clients develop reliable, resilient digestion systems that lower disposal costs, increase renewable-energy potential, and protect operators and surrounding communities.

Process Optimization, Pilot Testing, and Commissioning

We provide end-to-end treatment process expertise, guiding clients from early-stage concept development through bench-scale evaluation, pilot testing, full-scale design, commissioning, and long-term optimization.  We develop defensible testing programs, evaluate technology performance under site-specific conditions, and translate results into practical, scalable process solutions with clear capital, operating, reliability, and compliance implications. Our team supports technology selection, process modeling, design criteria development, procurement, construction-phase services, start-up, operator training, and performance verification helping utilities and industrial clients reduce implementation risk and achieve reliable, optimized treatment outcomes from the laboratory to full-scale operation.