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Altela, Inc.Treating water naturally

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Purification of Produced Water from

Oil and Natural Gas Platforms

Ned A. Godshall, Founder and Director

7500 Meridian Pl NW, Suite B

Albuquerque, NM 87121

(505) 238-4286

[email protected]

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really BIG

yet SIMPLE

and ELEGANT

Whenever possible, do something

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Biggest world problems with a technological solution?

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Cancer?

Clean Water?

Renewable Energy?

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Why does the world have a water problem?

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But >99% is salty, undrinkable

But wait, 85% live next to an ocean, so desal is the answer!

52,000,000,000 gallons for each of us 7 billion people

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‘Pressure’ is the problem!

All manmade desal requires ‘pressure’

Why is water desalination so expensive?

High operating costs

High capital costs

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No pressure

No electricity

Evaporate off oceans

Nature has been doing the ‘perfect two-step’ in desal

for four and a half billion years!

Condense as rain

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Not driven by electricity

Inexpensive plastic

No pressure

‘No pressure’, man!

A new way of thinking about the problem

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Treating water naturally - turning a liability into an asset:

brackish mixed-contaminant Oil &Gas Produced Water


What is Altela?

Altela is a unique oil and gas service provider and a unique investment

opportunity:

It’s a ‘water company’ play

A ‘clean-tech company’ play

And an ‘energy company’ play

All wrapped into one company

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Altela represents a simple, elegant, inexpensive, new form of water

desalination products:

World’s only economic desal that does not use pressure

So, no pressure vessel is required

Which must be constructed of metal to withstand the pressure

For which the metal corrodes in the presence of brackish water

For which high CapEx, high-alloy metals are required to extend

lifetime of pressure vessels, pumps, valves, pipes, etc.

And for which high OpEx costs are required because pressure

requires pressure pumps, which require expensive electricity

What is Altela’s Uniqueness?

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Rain water comes from brackish unpotable water – the oceans:

Step 1: Passive solar energy evaporates water at the ocean surface

Using low-grade heat and no pressure

This clean water vapor is later released as rain in:

Step 2: Cold air cannot hold as much moisture as hot air

So rising air gets colder, causing condensation – rain

And the amount of energy given off in Step 2 is equal to the amount of

energy used in Step 1: Mother Nature is very energy efficient.

Mother Nature’s Water Desalination Process


Altela has developed a new commercial water desalination process that

mimics Mother Nature, but improves on her too:

AltelaRain® brings Steps 1 and 2 together just 200 microns (0.008”)

apart, rather than thousands of miles apart

So the energy given back in the condensation step is used over and

over again in the evaporation step:

Reducing the amount of even this low-grade inexpensive heat to only

one-fourth of what it is for conventional thermal distillation

That is, Altela desalinates 3 gallons of water for the energy to

evaporate 1 gallon conventionally

Since we use no pressure, all components are made with

inexpensive plastics, rather than metals that corrode

Improving on Mother Nature’s Desalination

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The Technology


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IP-protected evaporation/condensation

process: like nature’s rain from ocean salt

water

Makes 3 gallons of clean water from the

heat energy that would usually only make 1

gallon

Operates on low-grade waste heat or waste

well-head gas – free in many locations

Robust: no pressure, no high

temperatures, no membranes;

manufactured from inexpensive plastics

that do not corrode, rather than metal

The Technology



Strategic Relationships

Altela recently signed two new joint

venture agreements:

Casella Altela Regional

Environmental Services, LLC

(CARES)

Clarion Altela Environmental

Services LLC (CAES)

$14.3M investment during the past year from a large Private Equity

firm in Denver, CO USA


Once you understand what we do,

you’ll see where we can go.

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