Grey water system at university in Denver

Project

CSU SPUR / USA / 2025

Usage

Greywater recycling

Products

AQUALOOP, PURAIN

Description

The CSU Spur Hydro building in Denver houses three separate research facilities called Vida, Terra, and Hydro.  Within the Hydro facility is the Water Technology Acceleration Platform (“The Water TAP”).  It is a state-of-the-art laboratory space designed to propel water technology from research prototypes to market-ready (commercial) products. Our US-Partner Ecovie is pleased to have one of its commercial scale AQUALOOP greywater systems at the TAP facility.  It was custom designed and installed to be able to test various aspects of source greywater and the impact of the AQUALOOP membrane bioreactor (MBR) on treatment and water quality.  

The Water TAP is developed for innovations to be tested – removing the barrier for new inventors, researchers, and growing companies to advance, test, and go-to-market with new water treatment technology.

The Water TAP currently provides access to five different onsite water sources at a capacity of 1000 gallons per day with an additional capacity to include other sources as needed:

• Urban stormwater
• Graywater (AQUALOOP)
• Raw water (South Platte River)
• Rainwater (roof runoff)
• Recycled wastewater (blackwater)

Since the system is in Colorado, it must meet the state’s Regulation 86 which among other requirements it must have NSF 350 certification.  AQUALOOP was the first greywater system NSF 350 certified for greywater recycling at the commercial scale, back in 2016. Since then, over 50 system have been installed and water has been supplied to all sizes of buildings from single family homes to large high rises.

The project was a collaboration of Ecovie with the design engineering firm Smith Group, Ecovie’s local manufacturer’s representative Mountain Commercials Sales, Greenfield Dynamics, and MEP firm MT Tech Mechanical.

Planning