07 // Product Line Overview
Phase Flash builds desalination systems across four scales. The core physics is identical: vacuum flash evaporation separates water from contaminants without membranes, and multi-stage heat recovery captures latent heat from each condensation step to drive the next evaporation stage—reducing net energy input toward thermodynamic limits.
A compact combustion engine driving a flash-boil chamber using exhaust heat as the thermal energy source. Designed for off-grid field deployment where electrical infrastructure is unavailable. Seawater feeds into a stainless hopper, flash-boils using engine waste heat, and vapor condenses through a forced-air copper condenser coil. Simple, rugged, minimal electronics. Output: potable water from any saline source without electrical power.
The engineering priority is heat recovery—capturing exhaust thermal energy that a conventional generator would waste. The combustion engine provides both the vacuum pump drive and the thermal energy for flash evaporation, making the system self-contained for disaster relief, military field deployment, or remote coastal communities.
85 LBS / COMBUSTION-POWERED / OFF-GRID CAPABLE / NO CONSUMABLE FILTERS
Described in full above. A 42-inch freestanding ceramic monolith containing a flywheel energy store, vacuum flash chamber, hydrophobic cold-plate condenser, and cyclonic separator. Same thermodynamic separation as the Oasis—no membranes, no chemicals, no liquid brine. Produces salt coins as the only waste product.
200 LBS / CERAMIC SHELL / FLYWHEEL ENERGY STORE / NO CONSUMABLES
The flagship. Described in Sections 01–05 above. Multi-chamber vacuum flash array with high-conductivity condenser and laminar dispensing. Target output: 50,000–100,000 liters per day depending on heat source and recovery ratio. Designed for municipal water treatment, industrial process water, and disaster relief deployment.
MUNICIPAL CONFIGURATION / MULTI-STAGE HEAT RECOVERY / TARGET: 3–5 kWh/m³
A 40-foot shipping container housing a multi-stage vacuum flash cascade with high-efficiency heat exchangers. Polishing stack: UV-C sterilization, remineralization, turbidity filtration. Waste heat from condensation is recovered to pre-heat incoming feed—this cascading heat recovery is what makes the energy economics competitive. Power options: natural gas microturbine (200–500 kW) or solar + battery hybrid.
Standard configuration: 200,000–350,000 gallons per day. Extended configuration: 500,000–1,000,000 gallons per day (multiple container units in parallel). Competitive with small-to-medium reverse osmosis plants, with the advantage of no membrane replacement, no chemical pretreatment, and zero liquid brine discharge.
30,000–38,000 LBS / $6–10M (PRODUCTION) / ZERO LIQUID DISCHARGE / NO CONSUMABLE MEMBRANES