Water Purification: PAX H2(O)

PAX is commercializing a water purification technology initially focused on desalination. PAX H2(O) is a unique distillation system, developed by pairing fundamental thermodynamic principles with scientific insights from biomimicry. The goal? To dramatically lower both capital and operational costs for water purification.

PAX H2(O) offers a number of advantages that separate it from competing solutions such as reverse osmosis. Our process uses no membranes or chemicals, and can purify water of any salinity level, unattended, with start-stop operations.

The future of energy and water distribution is decentralized and local. Distributed Energy Resources or DERs are small-scale units of local generation connected to the grid at distribution level. The combination of PAX’s modular, low-cost, low-temperature system with hydrogen electrolyzers and renewable energy sources enables the first viable Distributed Water Resource, for practical water and energy resiliency in shore installations, micro-grids, or for disaster/emergency response.

PAX is demonstrating its technology for the US Navy SBIR program and is a winner of the Department of Energy’s Hydrogen Shot Prize to lower the cost of green hydrogen production.