Don't let cooling water cap your data center's growth.
Nona RECOVER captures your existing cooling water, actively cleaning it so it doesn't need to be dumped. No new towers, no downtime. Powered by our MIT-patented alternative to reverse osmosis, you can continuously reuse the water you paid for instead of paying to dump it.
MIT-patented Ion Concentration Polarization (ICP) · Demonstrated in the field · 90% of wasted water eliminated on site
90%
reduction in blowdown waste
Up to
50%
reduction in makeup water consumption
Up to
40%
lower cooling water OpEx
Fits right into your existing cooling loop.
Easy to retrofit
A plug-and-play addition to any cooling tower, new or old. Your tower runs uninterrupted during installation.
Modular
Each module treats up to 10 GPM and up to 1,200 tons of cooling capacity per module. Colocate and link units to modernize larger systems.
Built tough
Originally engineered to desalinate seawater, so high-mineral cooling water is easy work.
Energy efficient
The most efficient way to pull minerals from cooling water. It barely registers on your electric bill.
High recovery
Eliminates 90% of wasted water — more than the best RO recovers. For every 10 gallons of waste, 9 return to circulation.
Estimate what RECOVER saves your site.
Enter your facility's specifications to calculate your annual makeup water and operating cost savings with RECOVER.
Your Cooling Tower
Assumes 60% annual operation duty (approx. 5,256 hrs/yr).
WithRECOVER
Annual Water Savings
13,924kgal/yr
Annual OpEx Saving
$278,488/yr
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Get these numbers plus a tailored recovery estimate for your exact site.
Estimates only, based on typical cooling-tower evaporation and blowdown rates and 90% recovery of blowdown. Actual results depend on your cooling load, water chemistry, and local rates.
Not reverse osmosisNot just another membrane
Every other way to clean cooling water fights the same losing battle with pressure, scale, and fouling. ICP moves minerals out of the water with an electric field — so there's no filter to clog in the first place.
Up to ~10 PSI
Runs at ~3 PSI, room temperature
Scale, fouling, frequent cleaning, and replacement
10 year membrane duty cycle
Melted by common water treatment chemicals like chlorine
Compatible with chlorine and common water treatment chemicals
Rigid system, built for one water quality
Adapts to changing feed water quality
Water can become a hard limit on data center growth.
Water availability, infrastructure, and operating conditions vary by site. Transparent water accounting helps developers, utilities, and communities evaluate demand, discharge, and practical reduction options without relying on one national average.
Desalination science aimed at AI's water waste.
Nona Technologies applies cutting-edge desalination science to cooling water recycling. Spun out of MIT, our patented Ion Concentration Polarization process was built to turn seawater into drinking water — now it closes the loop on industrial cooling water, recovering what facilities would otherwise pour down the drain.
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Hudson III ships out to continuously and autonomously remove minerals from a data center's cooling water. Once installed, the facility saves water, cuts cost, and protects its heat exchange equipment.
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What is data center cooling water recovery?
Cooling water recovery treats liquid blowdown so it can return to the cooling loop instead of being discharged. NONA RECOVER continuously demineralizes that water on site using Ion Concentration Polarization (ICP), an MIT-patented alternative to reverse osmosis.
See what RECOVER saves your facility.
Share your cooling load and local water costs and our team will show you how much water and savings you could recover.