Five straight steps to a circular way
WA3RM regenerative system can be used anywhere in connection with major industrial production. Once potential waste streams, land and operators have been identified, WA3RM develops a commercially attractive project and runs the process of connecting local stakeholders, entrepreneurs and the community. A dedicated team secures funding, plans, designs and oversees construction of a new facility, while ensuring that all parties get to grow together. WA3RM continues to secure valuable knowledge from the project, monitor and oversee the impact created, and prepare for a potential divestment.
How it works
Commercially viable cyclical systems
WA3RM develops regenerative systems based on industrial byproducts such as surplus heat, CO2 and sludge. The waste heat is streamed from an anchor industry to an adjacent, purpose-build facility where it can be used as a resource in vegetable production, fish and giant shrimp farming or other innovative applications such as biochar, biofuel or lye. Any new byproducts created will be evaluated for a possible loop. This cyclical system is commercially viable for all stakeholders and, above all, provides a feasible path to a healthier future for our planet.
1. Assessment
Identify and qualify industrial waste streams, most suitable applications, partners and possible impact.
2. Planning
Define project, connect stakeholders, secure waste stream, land and funding, benchmark impact.
3. Development
Technical design, secure permits, select suppliers. Onboard project team.
4. Construction
Initiate construction and procurement, conduct tests, refine impact calculations.
5. Asset management
Hand over to operator, monitor, carry out continuous improvements. Prepare divestment.
1. Assessment
Identify and qualify industrial waste streams, most suitable applications, partners and possible impact.
2. Planning
Define project, connect stakeholders, secure waste stream, land and funding, benchmark impact.
3. Development
Technical design, secure permits, select suppliers. Onboard project team.
4. Construction
Initiate construction and procurement, conduct tests, refine impact calculations.
5. Asset management
Hand over to operator, monitor, carry out continuous improvements. Prepare divestment.
1. Assessment
Identify and qualify industrial waste streams, most suitable applications, partners and possible impact.
2. Planning
Define project, connect stakeholders, secure waste stream, land and funding, benchmark impact.
3. Development
Technical design, secure permits, select suppliers. Onboard project team.
4. Construction
Initiate construction and procurement, conduct tests, refine impact calculations.
5. Asset management
Hand over to operator, monitor, carry out continuous improvements. Prepare divestment.
WA3RM develops regenerative systems based on industrial byproducts such as surplus heat, CO2 and sludge. The waste heat is streamed from an anchor industry to an adjacent, purpose-build facility where it can be used as a resource in vegetable production, fish and giant shrimp farming or other innovative applications such as biochar, biofuel or lye. Any new byproducts created will be evaluated for a possible loop. This cyclical system is commercially viable for all stakeholders and, above all, provides a feasible path to a healthier future for our planet.
How it works
Commercially viable cyclical systems
FAQ
WA3RM brings waste to life by connecting industries that want to put their waste streams to better use, with entrepreneurs that benefit from accessible energy and raw materials in different forms. WA3RM creates loops with waste streams from an anchor industry and provides the financial mechanisms to develop new regenerative businesses.
WA3RM’s development concept is called Regenerative Industry Development (RID) and combines industrial waste streams, technological processes and third-party capital to create new industries in which waste resources from industry are the primary input. The process of regenerative industry development can be applied also to each new regenerative industry established, creating multiloop regeneration.
WA3RM was created to bring about big scale positive impacts, showing that industry is a big part of a workable and profitable solution to the challenges facing our planet. Using waste streams to create valuable products that we all need, such as food, fodder, and fuels can bring substantial benefits to the environment and to society.
Using waste streams, including waste heat and CO2 for food production is not a new concept. But most organizations work within their “box” – e.g. government looks after its citizens, companies sell goods and services for shareholders, NGOs fight for causes, etc. WA3RM uniquely works across various “boxes” with a variety of stakeholders from industry, government, community. However, the process of industries collaborating to share surplus resources has been around for several decades, with documented success cases starting in the 1960s, it has yet to be mainstreamed. WA3RM’s waste to life approach is novel in that instead of waiting for the transformation to happen, we take action from developing an idea to reuse industrial streams, designing and building a facility, financing and managing the asset. What is new about our solution is the scale and the business model that we use to make these ideas a reality.
Indeed, it is possible for producers to operate their businesses using waste streams and making a fair profit. It has been done for decades in different sectors at varying scales. WA3RM works to lift the barriers for industries and producers to gain mutual benefits and increase their competitive advantages. By sharing surplus materials and services while reducing their environmental footprint, we contribute to thriving communities with job creation, and self-sufficiency for the regions where we establish our projects.
When we create business opportunities out of waste streams, particularly low temperature waste heat for heating, we do it in cooperation with large, energy-intensive industries with well-developed and efficient operations. We strive to work with “real waste heat”, meaning the heat that we can find in industrial processes, which will not disappear after a technological improvement by the industry in a time frame of 20 years.
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Technology
Innovative use of waste heat
Many of WA3RM’s projects are based on re-use of medium to low-grade waste heat, which typically means temperatures below 80 C°. Such waste streams enable and enhance biological processes, allowing many forms of food, feed and fuel production.
These projects are best suited for cool climate conditions, like in the northern hemisphere. Ambient temperatures higher than the process temperature may require cooling to avoid harming process organisms, as in warm climates. For these reasons, our focus is food production in cool climates.
Similarly, many technologies are driven by a temperature difference, e.g., to drive a phase shift or in chemical reactions. In such cases, access to free cooling creates value for waste heat, with lower cooling temperatures enabling lower heat temperatures to be valorized.