AltelaRainSM HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

EMAIL: info@altelainc.com WEB: www.altelainc.com

PHONE: 505.923.4140 FAX: 505.923.4130
2450 Alamo Ave. SE, Suite 200, Albuquerque, NM 87106
One Technology Center
WATER DESALINATION FROM
• Alternative energy water desalination SOLAR THERMAL ENERGY WASTE HEAT
• Uses waste heat for 99% of its energy
• Productive use of “free” waste heat or solar energy
• Low temperature operation, below the boiling point
of water AltelaRainSM
• High energy efficiency; 300% energy re-use
• Extremely high quality of treated water; 20 times
cleaner than tap water
Products
• No pressure vessels; extremely safe
• Dramatically reduces water hauling/trucking costs
• Low relative cost
• Unattended operation
• No fouling or scaling
• No membranes to replace
• No pre- or post-treatment required
• Easily sized to location’s need
• Ability to operate in diverse geographies
• Service business model; no customer capital required

300% energy-reuse makes Altela, Inc. both an

alternative energy and a clean-tech water technology
company.

Because Solar Thermal technology wastes much of the

passive solar energy it collects – Altela uses that to
drive our desalination process virtually for free –
Let us help make good use of ALL your passive solar
energy, we’ll make clean water from your waste heat.
A process inspired by nature
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AltelaRainSM SYSTEM
The AltelaRainSM System is a new product that desali-
nates or remediates any kind of water AND does so
completely “off-the-grid”, using only Solar Thermal
(ST) energy (or solar combined with wind energy).
Present commonplace
water desalination prod-
ucts (e.g. Reverse Os-
mosis [RO], Mechanical
Vapor Compression
[MVC], etc.) require
large amounts of electri-
cal energy supplied by
the electrical grid.
Conventional large-scale water desalination is therefore
either impossible or impractical in many arid and re- THE TECHNOLOGY: TREATING WATER NATURALLY
mote locations, i.e., any location where high-quality,
Altela has created a humidification/dehumidification
high-power electricity is not available. In such loca- [HDH] water desalination product that can be operated
tions, water desalination is anywhere using solar waste heat, without the use of
only possible by bringing either grid electrical power or any other fossil-fueled
in electrical generators generators.
powered by gasoline, die-
sel, or other fossil fuel to The AltelaRainSM technology recaptures energy 3 times,
generate such high-power and thus makes 3 gallons of pure distilled water from
electricity. the energy required to make 1 gallon using conventional
thermal distillation. And Altela is the only water desali-
The need for such fuel nation company in the world that uses no pressure (and
makes water desalination
therefore 99% of the energy is NOT from the electricity
impractical at those locations, because of both the high required to operate high-pressure pumps). It is therefore
cost of the fuel and the need to continually transport it
perfectly married to the burgeoning sister industry of
to the location. Solar Thermal (ST) – passive solar – because Altela
Altela has unique technology that uses large amounts of uses (for free) the collected passive solar energy not
waste heat generated from Solar Thermal energy in presently being utilized as low-grade low-temperature
place of this fossil fuel. waste heat to “fuel” the desalination process.
Such low-grade waste energy is available for water de-
salination when co-located with such an ST location
throughout the southwest U.S. in states like New Mex-
ico, Arizona and southern California, as well as abroad
in areas such as the Middle East.
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY COMPANY PARTNERING
Partnering with a Solar Thermal company, an Electric-
ity-Generating Plant with a co-located Brackish Water
Desalination Plant may be economic whereas presently
neither one would be economically viable on its own.
Why? Because ST alone wastes two-thirds of the pas-
sive solar energy it collects whereas Altela can use that
to drive the desalination process virtually for free – and
together make arid locations like New Mexico deserts
and Masdar City in the Middle East viable for both al-
ternative energy electricity and water desalination.
ALTELA CAN GROW WHERE YOU GO
A significant ad-
vantage of the
AltelaRainSM tech-
nology is that it is
highly modular,
meaning that it
can both be more
easily sized to
any given appli-
cation than other
technologies and be easily added onto at a later date, by
simply adding more AltelaRainSM towers to an existing
plant. The AltelaRainSM technology has the ability to
easily scale-up to capacities larger than 100,000 gallons
per day (GPD).