GRADIANT
Nearly a decade of work
2023
Global Innovation
This year started with the Grand opening of our new lab. It focuses around three major themes: Emerging Contaminants, Emerging Resources, and Ultrapure water.
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Our lab will have the facilities to better serve all our subsidiaries in their technical needs.
2022
Execute
With all the newly won projects, 2022 was focused on developing our global operations team and deploying and commissioning all of our sites.
2021
Grow and Expand
Gradiant raises over $100 million in Series C funding to help fuel the expansion of the company and to fund new projects.
During the Covid-19 lockdown, the company focused much of its energy on winning new projects. Significant emphasis was put into growing the proposals and application team. All these efforts paid off when we were able to win 26 new projects through Asia Pacific.
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The new wins allow us to start expanding into Vietnam and Indonesia, two key developing markets for us.
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Construction of our first Singapore CGE plant is underway.
2020
Gaining Experience and Expertise
Two new CFRO pilots are deployed. Gradiant works aggressively to get their first Singapore commercial contract.
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Gradiant makes major changes with the acquisition of Sigma Waters in Malaysia and CRS Waters in Australia. This allows us to not only expand but to increase our level of expertise within new technologies and industries.
2019
New Innovation
Gradiant India secures Series A funding. Gradiant China secures Series A funding. Gradiant Energy Services deploys 12 SCE plants with major Fortune 500 Oil and Gas companies (Chevron, Devon, Exxon Mobil, Pioneer Natural Resources) totaling up to 150,000 m3/day capacity. Counter Flow Reverse Osmosis (CFRO) membrane based high salinity desalination system is piloted at a textile customer. Â
Five Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) projects installed in multiple industries and applications globally, including dyestuff manufacturing, garbage incineration, texiltes, cooling tower blowdown and pharmaceutical, totaling over 6,000 m3/day capacity.
2018
Global Expansion
Gradiant China subsidiary formed. The first international CGE project installed in collaboration with Shanghai Electric at the Ligang power plant, including the 2nd generation CGE design with improved energy consumption. Gradiant India subsidiary is formed. Gradiant Osmotics gets a Series A funding. Gradiant opens its first international headquarters in Singapore.
2017
Breakthrough
Gradiant is nominated for 2017 Global Water Intelligence "Breakthrough Water Technology Company of the Year". The second and third commercial SCE projects were secured with QEP Resources and Devon Energy respectively. Capacities installed were expanded to 4,000 m3/day and involed the 2nd generation SCE design. Gradiant Osmotics is formed as a membrane technology subsidiary.
2016
Spinning out Operations
Oil price crash drives Gradiant to diversify technologies to new industries including textiles, power, mining, coal, and pharmaceuticals. Carrier Gas Concentrator is deployed as a low capex brine disposal technology.Â
Gradiant Energy Services subsidiary formed to focus on Oil and Gas in North America.
2015
Facing Challenges
The Gradiant launched its third product, Free Radical Disinfection (FRD), a low-cost brine disinfect technology that worked on-the-fly for our Oil & Gas customers. Gradiant's installed capacity now included a 635 m3/day CGE and a 2,000 m3/day SCE.
2014
Commercialization
First commercial scale CGE plant was designed, built, and commissioned in less than 10 months of starting the company and was operational by February 2014. Further expansion occurred in June 2014 where the desalination capacity was quadrupled to a commercial scale of 635 m3/day. Gradiant introduces a new technology called Selective Chemical Extraction (SCE) to provide clear brine quality water for Oil & Gas industry hydraulic fracturing market.  Gradiant received the 2014 Global Water Intelligence "Industrial Project of the Year" for its first commercial Carrier Gas Extraction (CGE) technology used in the Permian Basin to treat produced water from oil and gas well into fresh water and brine.
2013
From Idea to Company
With the addition of Meghan Moore and Luke Johnson, the six of us start Gradiant Corporation. Gradiant's groundbreaking Carrier Gas Extraction (CGE) technology was selected as Global Water Intelligence's Technology Idol after a presentation to a panel of judges. CGE technology introduced to the market in 2013 as a pilot with a $22B Oil & Gas client in the unconventional shale industry. Gradiant executed a 1 m3/day bench scale and a 150 m3/day at-site pilot project in 6 months leading to a larger scale commercial project. Gradiant obtained water samples from multiple clients in order to fine tune the technology.
2012
Graduating from the lab
Gradiant's unique approach to treating the toughest water make-up using soybean oil was honored as a top ten world-changing idea by Scientific American. All the students graduate from the Rohsenhow Kendall Heat Transfer Lab by the summer. Steven and Max graduate with their Bachelors of Science while Prakash and Anurag graduate with the PhDs. There is a working lab unit of the Carrier Gas Technology.
2011
Growing the Idea
Cofounders Prakash Govindan and Anurag Bajpayee meet in the MIT lab developing novel water and wastewater treatment technologies with their research students, Steven Lam and Max St. John. At this point, everything was theory.
