Engineered for thetoughest industrialwastewaters.

Transform the industrial wastewater into clean water and solids, lowering costs & enabling resource recovery.

Everything the processneeds, inside one container.

No custom treatment plant, chemical inventory, or long lead-time. The unit arrives on a truck, connects to power and the feed line, and runs on the same-day.

We are leveraging advanced software, control techniques and machine design to squeeze out every last drop.

Isometric line drawing of the container interior: heat pump, exchangers, piping and solids storage bags
KIRA SystemPerspective: Inside View

Drives evaporation on electricity alone. No traditional fossil fuels from boilers and burners. Capable of harnessing low-grade waste heat.

Transfers refrigerant heat to highly corrosive, high TDS streams.

Efficiently extract clean vapor from the harshest wastewater streams.

Stores solids: salts, metals, minerals, for resource recovery and/or low-cost disposal.

technology

Kira is a modular, on-site wastewater transformation system for critical industrial operations, turning the toughest liquid waste into ultrapure water and solids to reduce disposal costs, recover water, and increase operating capacity.

Cutaway render of the Kira container showing the process equipment and solids storage bags
Model & Version
WAVE-3-20
Method
Heat-pump-driven evaporation and condensation
Power
Electricity, low-grade waste heat optional
Outputs
Clean water (<10 ppm)Concentrated, dry solids
Performance
Freshwater intake reductionup to 95%
Disposal cost reductionup to 50%
Feed TDSadaptive up to 250,000 ppm
Throughput per unit264 -264,000 gallons/day
Footprint20' x 8'
Robust and dispatchable

Universal treatment for the most challenging conditions - rapidly deployable and scalable with the operation.

Flexible Power Sources

Runs on electricity by default, with low-grade waste heat as an input where available.

Chemical Free Recovery

Transform difficult wastewater through a simple evaporation-and-condensation cycle.

Transform waste streams

Reduce waste

Recover waterand mineral resources

Handle high-TDS, low-pH, and complex industrial wastewater using heat-pump-driven evaporation and condensation.

Treat water at the source to reduce hauling, injection, and wastewater disposal costs.

Produce ultrapure water for on-site reuse while concentrating solids for mineral recovery.

benefit

The liquid waste you pay to remove becomes water you can reuse and solids you can recover.

Blue-lit data centre server racks
Data Centers

Lower freshwater procurement costs and remove water constraints that block data center capacity.

  • [1]Cut freshwater intake by 95%+ while reducing blowdown disposal
  • [2]Increase cycles of concentration with on-site blowdown recovery
  • [3]Leverage data center waste heat to recover water and provide cooling - toward water-positive data centers
Refinery structure with pipework and gantries
Oil & Gas

Dispatchable treatment where hauling and disposal are bottlenecks.

  • [1]Protect, sustain, and boost production by ensuring produced water is never the bottleneck
  • [2]Alleviate salt water disposal (SWD) well capacity
  • [3]Recover resources from produced water
Stacked steel billets
Manufacturing

Reduce hazardous waste trucking, lowering costs and alleviating production hold-ups.

  • [1]Cut hazardous waste hauling costs in half by treating liquid waste at the source
  • [2]Meet strict municipal discharge guidelines with consistent, high-quality effluent
  • [3]Avoid municipal discharge altogether by closing the loop with on-site water reuse

Team

Our mission is toenable critical resourcesand reduce waste.

Shane and Jon are a team of engineers & researchers from MIT building economical and sustainable water & resource extraction processes across several critical industries. Our team has a history of deploying software and hardware, at-scale internationally.

Portrait of Shane Pratt
[ FIG. 1 ]Shane PrattCTO & Co-founder KIRA Systems Inc.
Portrait of Jonathan Bessette
[ FIG. 2 ]Jonathan BessetteCEO & Co-founder KIRA Systems Inc.

Kira is a part of a16z's Speedrun program (SR007) and backed by Activate. These are investors who put capital behind hardware for critical industrial & infrastructure operations.

  • a16z speedrun
  • Nomadic
  • MIT $100K
  • MIT delta v
  • Activate
  • Current
  • MIT Water, Food & Agriculture Prize
  • MASS Clean Energy Center

Press

Press & Publications

More water.

Less waste.

Curious what your site could recover?