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About Us...
CCT Team :-
Current management experienced in product commercialization from concept to manufacturing and company growth from startup to post IPO.
Over 50 years combined “hands on” experience in water treatment from system design, to manufacturing and operation.
President – P.E., Ch.E. with EMBA in International Business, 20 years in water treatment.
CEO – Ph.D. Materials Science, MIT. Previously founded and took public a water remediation company.
CCT Technology :-
The definition of clean drinking water is water without biological or chemical contaminants. The In the last three years, 25 states had 30 municipal water outbreaks where the drinking water exceeded the maximum contaminatin limits (MCL). In all cases, the primary contaminant released into the public drinking water was excessive levels of bacteria. capitolized common tap water contaminant in America according to the NRDC are lead, mercury, E. coli and Perchlorate. In 2001, the U.S. E.P.A. estimated that 1.8-3.5 million Americans became sick from contaminated water in the U.S. The aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita have left several hundred thousand people with out aready access to clean drinking water and little hope of a reliable source being available anytime soon.
The CCT water purifier is designed to be effective in the New Orleans situation from the time the municipal water became available again and before it was certified to meet drinking water standards; the New Orleans water from the tap during this period was stated to contain bacteria, viruses, lead and arsenic.
Current water treatment technology on a large scale is R/O for treating either raw water or desalination. This technology is at most 50% efficient on raw water and less than that for desalination. Arsenic and other biological contaminants can breach R/O membranes.
CCT is developing both a stationary and portable water purifier that has a solar powered UV for inactivation of all pathogens, that can purify 120,000 liters of water at a cost of $0.0003/L with the portable unit. Replacement cost for a new lamp is $5.00, which can treat another 120,000 liters.
Use of low cost mineral adsorbents (SMZ) enhanced with target specific nano-coatings for removal of chemical (inorganic and organic) contaminants. Adsorption of lead reached 16% and 10% for Arsenic (+3)(+5) by weight.
Adsorbents provide redundancy for UV lamp for bacteria and viruses deactivation and remove contaminants which impede UV lamp effectiveness.
CCT is progressing with the incorporation of LED UV and solar power technology.
CCT Strenghs :-
Current management experienced in product commercialization from concept to manufacturing and company growth from startup to post IPO.
Over 50 years combined “hands on” experience in water purification.
NSF Phase 1 SBIR Grant completed June 2005
NSF Phase II SBIR Grant proposal submitted January 2006
Exclusive license agreements with University of Texas and University of Oregon for CCT field of use.
Partnerships with Texas A&M, New Mexico Tech and University of Oregon.
Strategic partners are Dolan Northwest LLC, Cascade Designs, Inc., Engineers Without
Borders CRADA agreements between CCT and UofO.
Patent applications filed.
CCT Partnership :-
CCT is developing low cost water purification technology for non-developed world needs for individuals, households or central source of water for villages. We are working with To Love Children, an NGO headquartered in San Francisco and working in Africa to meet the needs in Africa. CCT is also teamed with Engineers Without Borders to help design, build and maintain these water purification systems for non-developed world.
The “main” water source serving a village would require a larger capacity, simple, sustainable water purifier for ALL pathogen removal as well as SMZ technology for adsorption of chemical contaminants.
The systems will have to be self powered or passive, be sustainable and maintained in the field and be simple appropriate technology for the users.
The success of these systems is that they are sustainable, easily maintained and an education program is developed to teach them how to keep their water safe.
CCT will be working with both TLC and EWB to assist with design of both the POU and POE water treatment systems.
To accomplish this, CCT is seeking a “close” field test site where the water purification system can be installed and monitored with EWB.
CCT Intellectual Property :-
NSF Phase 1 SBIR Grant completed June 2005
NSF Phase II SBIR Grant proposal January 2006
Exclusive license agreement with University of Texas for CCT field of use.
Research in progress at University of Oregon on selective nanocoatings for various substrates; exclusive license agreement in place.
Partnerships with Texas A&M, New Mexico Tech and University of Oregon.
CRADA agreement being drawn up between CCT and LLNL.
Two patent applications covering apparatus & method for water purification in progress.
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