Espiku designs and develops water treatment and mineral extraction technologies that are efficient, cost-effective, portable, modular, and deployable anywhere. Our technologies rely on low-pressure evaporative cycles to extract clean water and valuable minerals from saline or contaminated sources. From environmentally responsible water and lithium production to minimizing land subsidence in the extractive industry, our innovations provide a critical pathway to transition to a sustainable & clean energy future.
We strive to advance US and global water-energy security and resiliency. We tackle pertinent environmental problems through highly efficient and clean technologies for energy recovery, water treatment, and critical mineral production.
We scale up technologies proven in our labs to produce portable and affordable water treatment and brine processing units that can be deployed anywhere in the world: from refugee camps and coastal communities to oil fields and military installations.
Funding
Our cutting edge research in thermal and fluid transport, phase change, power generation systems, and thermal-fluid digital control is being designed and demonstrated under awards from DOE's Solar Energy Technology Office (SETO) and Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), the DOD’s xTechSBIR Clean Tech Competition, the state of Oregon, Oregon Metals Initiative, M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust, and others.
