S4E15 - Is Supercritical Water Oxidation a Solution for PFAS, Energy (& More)?

with 🎙️ Kobe Nagar, CEO & Co-Founder at 374Water   💧 374Water is a cleantech company, that builds and develops Innovative physical-thermal technology (Supercritical Water Oxidation - SCWO) for resource recovery from waste and emerging contaminants elimination. What we covered:  🥖 How Supercritical Water was discovered 200 years by a French engineer: Charles Cagniard de Latour  ⚗️ How substances have a critical point, and where that one actually sits for water  🍏 How water's physical properties change when we go past its critical point  🍏 How one can leverage these changes to run supercritical water oxidation  🧮 How supercritical water oxidation (or SCWO) works, and what it can deliver in terms of pollutant removal and resource recovery  ⚡ The perks of supercritical water oxidation: how fast it goes and which feedstock it works with (spoiler: all of them)  🧪 How the process can be energy positive by tapping into the chemical energy dissolved in wastewater  🍏 The perks of taking time to evaluate options when developing a new tech (and of leveraging previous experiments)  🧱 How Supercritical Water Oxidation draws on simple building blocks available everywhere  🎚️ How scale effects unlock even better energetical mass balances  📺 How SCWO developed since the 1990s (and how some developments were unnecessary complex)  🍎 How challenging it is to introduce a new technology in the Water Industry (and which technologies SCWO intends to replace)  📈 374Water’s business model and recent (external) growth  🚽 Spinning out of Duke University, Bill & Melinda Gates’ “Reinvent the Toilet” challenge, using Celsius instead of Fahrenheit, great French discoveries, being feedstock agnostic... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥  ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript)      Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.