HeavyMetals

“Aqua Fission separates clean water from all types of contaminants, including heavy metals.”

From Toxic to Potable: Remediating Heavy-Metal-Contaminated Water

Aqua Fission was designed from the ground up to address one of the most difficult water challenges in the world: contaminated freshwater that cannot be treated safely or economically with conventional filtration or reverse-osmosis systems.

All Sources of Water. All Contaminants.

Across industrial, agricultural, and municipal settings, freshwater sources are increasingly compromised by chemical discharge, legacy mining pollution, industrial effluent, and naturally occurring dissolved solids. Many of these contaminants cannot be reliably removed through membrane filtration, and often generate secondary waste streams that create new environmental liabilities.

Aqua Fission uses a deep-vacuum thermodynamic distillation process that separates water from contaminants at the molecular level. Rather than attempting to filter or chemically neutralize pollutants, the system removes clean water from the contaminated source, leaving impurities behind in a controlled, recoverable form. This fundamental difference allows Aqua Fission to treat water sources that are unsuitable for reverse osmosis, ion exchange, or media-based filtration.

The platform is capable of purifying heavily contaminated water, including industrial and chemical wastewater, process water, and mixed-use effluent. It is particularly effective for remediating water contaminated with dissolved heavy metals such as arsenic, silver, uranium, radium, lead, and other inorganic salts commonly found in artesian and groundwater sources. These contaminants remain concentrated in the residual output, while the recovered water meets or exceeds international potable water standards.

No Membranes. No Chemicals. No Toxic Discharge.

Because Aqua Fission operates without membranes, chemical additives, or toxic brine discharge, it is well suited for long-term remediation projects where environmental compliance, operational resilience, and waste minimization are critical. The system produces no liquid waste stream and does not require disposal of contaminated filter media, making it a true zero-liquid-discharge solution.

Modular. Sustainable. Infinitely Scalable.

Aqua Fission systems can be deployed as standalone remediation units or integrated into existing treatment infrastructure. Their modular architecture allows capacity to scale incrementally, enabling targeted treatment of specific contamination sources or expansion to regional water systems over time. Low operating temperatures and deep-vacuum efficiency also allow the systems to operate with minimal energy input, including off-grid configurations powered by renewable energy.

From industrial cleanup and mining-impacted groundwater to chemically contaminated municipal supplies, Aqua Fission provides a practical, scalable solution for turning unsafe freshwater into a reliable source of clean, usable water without creating new environmental burdens.

BENEFITS

Aqua Fission separates clean water from all types of contaminants, including heavy metals. Arsenic, lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, and uranium are considered the highest-risk toxic metals due to carcinogenic, neurological, renal, or developmental effects.

  • Arsenic
  • Lead
  • Mercury
  • Cadmium
  • Chromium (Cr(VI))
  • Nickel
  • Copper
  • Zinc
  • Silver
  • Uranium
  • Radium
  • Thorium
  • Cobalt
  • Manganese
  • Iron
  • Selenium
  • Antimony
  • Barium
  • Thallium

Case Study

GREECE: Halkidiki

Sludge Dewatering / Irrigation Water

Sludge, a byproduct of anaerobic digestion of organic materials to produce biogas, can contain harmful impurities that threaten to contaminate groundwater. The Halkidiki biogas plant deployed AquaFission to dewater sludge, and produce humus and irrigation water.

TIMEFRAME: 8 months
CAPACITY: 75 m³/day (75,000 liters/day)
TOTAL VOLUME TREATED: 18,000 m³ (18,000,000 liters)

Offices

  • Washington, D.C., United States
  • Nürnberg (Nuremberg), Germany
  • Dubai, UAE
  • Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Durban, South Africa
  • Budapest, Hungary
  • Bursa, Türkiye
  • Abuja, Nigeria

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