Passive Solutions to Complex Issues

H2nanO has created an array of passive, sunlight-driven technologies to treat hard-to-degrade contaminants, mitigate volatile emissions, and enhance natural evaporation. Our technology provides a high treatment strength without intensive energy or treatment infrastructure, harnessing nature to deliver clean water and reduce emissions footprint.

 
 

Metals Mining & Processing

Sunlight-Driven Passive Advanced Oxidation

SolarPass - Downstream oxidative polishing of treatment streams to eliminate manganese, organo-metallics, ammonia, and organics. Simple to integrate and retrofit existing systems or install as a standalone treatment solution.

Photothermal Evaporation Enhancement

Oasis - Passive brine management by accelerating natural solar evaporation. Our proprietary materials provide efficient, localized heating to enable improved evaporation rates for resource recovery and tailings dewatering.

  • Reduce effluent processing costs

  • Recover value from tailings

  • Meet environmental regulations

 

Case Study - Passive Treatment of Organoselenium

Our SolarPass technology effectively eliminates highly-bioavailable organoselenium compounds produced by biological Se treatment processes to non-hazardous levels.

  • Elimination of organo-selenium to levels < 10 ppt

  • Reduced aquatic toxicity risk by a factor of 10,000x

Oil & Gas

Passive Treatment of Recalcitrant Organics

SolarPass - Our technology uses sunlight to target and eliminate toxic organics including naphthenic acids, PAHs, and F1-F2 hydrocarbons. Toxicity elimination in as little as 1-2 days of sunlight exposure.

Eliminate Greenhouse Gas & Malodorous Emissions

Stratus - Passive, in-situ process for intercepting and treating methane, reduced sulfur compounds, and VOCs. Reduce carbon footprint while improving local air quality.

Produced Water Evaporation Enhancement

Oasis - Passive produced water management by accelerating natural solar evaporation with simultaneous VOC emission treatment. Our propietary materials provide efficient, localized heating to enable improved evaporation rates for produced water pond dewatering.

  • Reduce carbon footprint

  • Improve existing treatment processes

  • Abide by environmental regulations

“One of the things we want to ensure is that any water released from our sites is safe. That’s why innovation and trialing clean technology like SolarPass is important to the oil sands industry.”

– Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance Feature, Nov 2020

 

Case Study - Passive Treatment of Oil Sands Process-Affected Water

SolarPass was demonstrated to remove dissolved organics and reduce aquatic toxicity under 1-2 days of natural sunlight exposure:

 

Case Study - Mitigation of Methane and H₂S Emissions

Stratus was demonstrated to intercept, capture, and oxidatively treat methane and reduced sulfur emissions at the pilot-scale under site conditions.

  • Reduce odour and GHG emissions by 70-100%

  • Emssion compounds oxidatively converted to non-volatile species

Additional MArkets

Power Generation

Agribusiness

Site Remediation

Municipal Wastewater

Discover how H2nanO can make a difference at your site

 

Our Application Development PRocess

H2nanO’s expert team of engineers and scientists tailor our technology to meet new treatment needs.

Treatability Assessment

  • 20-50 L of sample water

  • Quick turnaround to inform pilot trial

Outcomes:

  • Initial evaluation of application samples

  • Determine treatment performance for your effluent

Field Pilot Trial

  • 1-100 m³ of sample water

  • On or off-site testing

Outcomes:

  • Assess process scaling and operating environment.

  • Engineering benchmarking for scale-up.

Process Integration

  • Full-scale for application site

  • Long-term operation

Outcomes:

  • Integrate into new or existing water systems.

  • Ready for operations with simple process deployment