Gradiant: Cleantech water solutions

Water is necessary for manufacturing, and a lot of it.Over ten million gallons of water are consumed daily by a medium-sized semiconductor fabrication plant.This reliance on water presents a significant challenge in a world increasingly plagued by droughts.

Gradiant offers an answer for this water issue.The company, co-founded by Prakash Govindan PhD ’12 and Anurag Bajpayee SM ’08, is a pioneer in sustainable water projects, or “cleantech.”Bajpayee and Govindan were both doctoral students at the Rohsenow Kendall Heat Transfer Laboratory.

Both of them had a penchant for action and were pragmatic.Both Bajpayee and Govindan collaborated with Professor John Lienhard on research related to desalination.