The Company MDC Membranes Developing Company Ltd. developing a new class of novel Nano-filtration membranes that are meant to become integrated in a Municipal and Industrial waste facilities.
The Problem
Municipal waste water is considered a valuable water resource for unlimited use. However, in order to reach this goal of unlimited use of municipal waste water, the current treatment processes must be upgraded.
The major obstacle for a wide spread cost effective purification of municipal waste water for unlimited use, is the recovery ratio, namely the ratio between the outlet and inlet fluxes that reflects the productivity of the process for manufacturing purified water and consequently the treatment cost of the inevitable waste concentrate.
Thus there is a large opportunity in the development of an improved membrane technology that will yield more purified water and will minimize the volume of waste, reducing the overall cost as well as the burden on the environment.
Market Potential
The global water and wastewater treatment market valued today at about US$500 billion, with an annual growth of more than 6 percent forecasted.
Water and wastewater demand for the next 10-year period expected to be worth about US$1 trillion.
Over the next decade, the need to rehabilitate and replace water and wastewater infrastructure is expected to be a key market driver.
Products
MDC developing a new class of novel Nano-Filtration (NF) membranes based on a unique method and material combination.
The unique and combined properties of the novel NF membranes are:
These unique qualities drastically reduce the overall operating expenditures allowing a widespread use of NF membranes.
Competition
Current methods of secondary municipal waste treatment (namely after biological treatment) entail either a sand filtration step or wastewater plants comprised of membrane technology treatment which consists of Ultrafiltartion (UF) membrane processes. Another new and upcoming form of treatment, enabling space efficient plant, is MBR (Membrane Biological Reactor) which includes the biological treatment and submerged Ultrafiltration (UF) in one enclosure. None of the above mentioned methods has managed to fulfill to its fullest potential cost savings, in terms of water production for unlimited use, due to the relatively low recovery ratios of pure water and the mounting cost of disposing the waste as mandated by regulations.
The Team
MDC is led by a team of experienced executives well-known researchers and industry experts.
Dr. Charles Linder, Prof. Yoram Oren, Prof. Ora Kedem - founders from BG University.
Mr. Avraham Ophir - founder and CTO of IDE Technologies Ltd.
Ken Shaked - CEO.
Company Status
MDC incorporated in July 2009 and it is in early stage of development of the technology.
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