Aqua Fission + CaptureBank = AquaEnergetics™

Disrupting Distributed Fertilizer and Energy Production

Aqua Fission and [CaptureBank’s] joint venture, AquaEnergetics, is a unified Water–Energy–Fertilizer platform for farms, biogas plants, industrial organics, and municipal waste streams. A HydroCircular Utility™, the combined platorm turns manure, digestate, sludge and wastewater into three outputs: clean water, local energy, and next-generation, high-value  fertilizer.

The Problem

Rapidly Growing Need

In Europe, for example, total biogas digestate production is estimated at around 930 million tons of biogas digestate as of 2022. Production of biogas digestate is projected to increase significantly to 1.5 billion tons by 2030 and 3.5 billion tons  by 2050.

Threat to Water Supply and Sanitation

Sewage, animal manure, and biogas digestate pose an existential problem for water supply and sanitation. While this nutrient-rich by-product is often utilized as fertilizer to enhance soil health, it is prone to leaching into the ground and air, contains various pollutants such as microplastics, and includes additives like glycol, among others.

Threat to Energy and Food Security

Conventional fertilizer production is also extremely energy-intensive and heavily dependent on natural gas, leaving it exposed to geopolitical shocks and price volatility. Elevated energy and fertilizer costs are forcing farmers to cut applications, threatening food security.

High Cost and Inefficiency

• Digestate is bulky, wet and costly to transport, spread and store.
• Typical facilities only dry to 20–30% dry matter, leaving high logistics cost behind.
• Nutrient leakage, odors, runoff and regulatory breaches create real pain for operators.
• At the same time, fertilizer and energy markets remain volatile and politically exposed.

The logistical costs associated with transporting and spreading massive volume of digestate on fields present a significant economic and environmental burden, making its disposal a net cost rather than a value-added process.

Current facilities struggle to efficiently dry this material, typically achieving a maximum of only 20–30% dry matter (DM). In contrast, we achieve a process that is more efficient, drying the material to >90% DM. Europe is facing a biowaste crisis running in parallel with energy and fertilizer shortages.

The Solution

Europe is handling a rising volume of nutrient-rich waste with a system built for disposal, not value creation.

What some see as a global waste crisis, we see as an unlocked and untapped source of energy and fertilizer value.

The Aqua Fission + CaptureBank solution unlocks the value of problematic biowaste by harnessing its untapped nutrients, transforming waste streams into clean water and valuable and exportable bio-products: carbon-negative fertilizer, gas or combined heat & power (CHP).