THUWAL, Saudi Arabia — The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) spinout Al Miyah Solutions has efficiently demonstrated the novel viability of their new containerized wastewater therapy know-how on the National Water Company (NWC) facility in Rabigh, Saudi Arabia.

The plant is the fruit of 5 years of analysis by KAUST professor, Pascal Saikaly and his group, and addresses the problems of entry to scrub water and sanitation as guided by Vision 2030.

Nearly 40% of households in Saudi Arabia haven’t any entry to centralized sewer networks. As such, wastewater have to be collected and transported, leading to monetary and environmental burdens — from an ever-growing inhabitants.

The novel wastewater therapy know-how from Al Miyah employs proprietary AGS-GDM know-how and is a containerized system that produces a powerful 100 cubic meters of unpolluted water, serving as much as 1,500 individuals a day. The system has a considerably smaller footprint and decrease operational value than standard wastewater therapy processes.

The system could be mounted on a delivery container, is movable, plug and play, modular, scalable and strong. By demonstrating the feasibility and success of this new know-how, Al Miyah Solutions has achieved a singular milestone within the efforts in direction of wastewater sustainability.

“The unit we are seeing here has been the fruit of several years of hard work by Professor Saikaly and his team, starting from lab-scale experiments, then running a slightly larger pilot. This wastewater treatment facility has successfully proved the fundamental process is sound and now we are seeing the full decentralized wastewater treatment plant here in operation,” stated Kevin Cullen, former vice chairman of innovation at KAUST.

“We hope that this technology developed here in Saudi Arabia, from KAUST, can make a great impact to ensure access to water and sanitation to where it is needed.”

Al Miyah’s innovative know-how was developed by Professor Saikaly and former KAUST Research Scientist, Dr. Muhammad Ali. The firm started as a analysis undertaking that went on to be commercialized via KAUST’s Near Term Grand Challenge analysis translation program. The undertaking was lastly realized as a startup via the TAQADAM Accelerator program.

To mitigate the injury and value of untreated wastewater, Al Miyah got down to make it simpler to deal with and recycle handled sewage effluent with the intention of turning it into usable water. Their know-how is ready to produce water of dependable high quality for non-potable reuse purposes resembling irrigation, horticulture and business.

KAUST’s assist of Al Miyah and their subsequent success is validation of the college’s continued efforts and dedication to discovering options that tackle international problems with sustainability whereas additionally selling a diversified economic system inside the Kingdom. KAUST will keep targeted on its ongoing mission to advance a deep tech ecosystem consistent with the targets of Vision 2030.

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