Applied CleanTech Reduces Over 25% of Waste Water Treatment Operational Costs and Recycles Quality Commodities from Municipal Waste Water

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Applied CleanTech, a company with a unique technology for recycling solids from waste water into quality commodities using an innovative process, announced today that it has signed license agreements with two distributors, one in Israel and one a joint Jordanian and Palestinian Authorities (PA) group. The Israeli distributors will install ACT systems in at least 3 facilities during 2012. The Jordanian PA distributors have committed to orders in a minimum of 5 facilities during the next two years.

Applied CleanTech operates a waste water recycling system at a waste water treatment plant (WWTP) operated by GES (Global Environmental Solutions) in Omer, the facility recycles municipal waste water for 10,000 residents. The company signed a tender last week for the installation of an additional system for the WWTP in Zfat which handles the waste water for 30 thousand residents.

Refael Aharon, CEO of Applied CleanTech, stated that "in the past few months we are witness to an increasing level of interest for our company's unique solution. We are happy about the technology franchise agreements which enable us to expand our geographical deployment and to provide a significant reduction of costs for local authorities. Correspondingly, we are continuing the marketing of the technology in Western Europe, where there is a high demand for environmental technologies which reduce damage to the environment while also significantly reducing the existing high waste water treatment costs."

Applied CleanTech offers a unique technology for the treatment of waste water which enables WWTPs to significantly reduce the high treatment costs including sludge removal and disposal and electricity consumption. In addition, Applied CleanTech increases the facility's capacity for incoming solids. The ACT system enables a significant reduction in the amount of sludge created in the treatment process by over 45%, an increase of the WWTP capacity by over 20% and a reduction of the energy consumption and the polymers consumption. It also enables a reduction of accompanying odor problems during the treatment process and an improvement in general plant maintenance.

The technology makes the biological process of the WWTP more efficient by removing specific elements from the waste water which inhibit the digesting process. The uniqueness of the solution provided by Applied CleanTech is in the ability to avoid the creation of sludge by removing these elements from the waste water instead of the usual process which turns these elements into sludge. Applied CleanTech's process includes the recycling of the elements separated from the waste water into commodity products such as recycled pulp (cellulose). In addition, the entire operation is entitled to Quality of Environment stock due to the reduction of GHG emissions and use of alternative fuel (CDM).

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