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A disposal liability
Oilfield produced water and desalination reject brine are treated as toxic waste. Operators pay to inject or dispose of staggering volumes of it, every day.
Zero-Liquid-Discharge Brine Refinery
Refining a national liability into national advantage.
Caelumetrics turns toxic produced and desalination brine — a waste stream the country pays to dispose of — into datacenter-grade water, carbon-negative sodium-ion battery precursors, and domestic critical minerals. Nothing leaves as waste.
Clean Water
Critical Minerals
Zero Liquid Waste
Input → Proprietary Process → Products
The Problem
Three problems the country is paying for separately.
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A supply chain we don't control
The sodium-ion battery supply chain is dominated by overseas producers, led by China. Domestic capacity for the precursors next-generation storage runs on is thin.
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Water scarcity where compute grows
AI datacenters are landing in arid basins that can't spare freshwater — the same basins awash in unusable brine.
The Solution
One refinery resolves all three — and sends nothing back to the ground.
A zero-liquid-discharge brine refinery takes the waste stream in and sends clean water, battery materials, and critical minerals out. Built from mature, commercially proven unit operations, integrated in a sequence that is the company's core invention.
CLOSED-LOOP reagent economics
BEHIND-THE-METER renewable power
CARBON-NEGATIVE via captured CO₂
ZERO liquid discharge
BEHIND-THE-METER renewable power
CARBON-NEGATIVE via captured CO₂
ZERO liquid discharge
Two Flagship Markets
Refined from the same waste stream.
Datacenter-grade water
Ultrapure water for the AI buildout
Reverse-osmosis water clean enough for advanced cooling and process use — produced in the arid basins where it's scarcest and worth the most.
Carbon-negative Na-ion precursors
Battery-grade soda ash & caustic soda
FEOC-compliant, domestically produced sodium precursors for next-generation energy storage — and carbon-negative, not just low-carbon.
Recovered alongside → lithium · bromine · magnesium · potash · salt · green hydrogen
Why It's Strategic
Domestic critical minerals and clean water — refined from a waste stream the nation already has in abundance.
FEOC-compliant materials, energy-dominance alignment, and a supply chain that comes home instead of overseas. The strategic case lives at the center of this company, not the margins.
Where We Are
Three projects, honest status.
The proof
Permian Basin
Validated design on a 54-sample real-brine characterization database, with a supportive state regulatory pathway.
In development
Wyoming DLE
A greenfield co-location model designed to complement direct-lithium-extraction operations rather than compete with them.
Proposed
St. Croix, USVI
A restoration narrative: a site that once poisoned its coastline, repurposed to produce clean water and battery materials for America.
Built from mature, commercially proven unit operations. The integrated system is being validated at bench scale on real feedstock.