Ted Kuepper
Executive Director of Global Water (www.globalwater.org).
| Headline: | Engineer |
| Industries: | Cleantech, Food and Drink |
| Skills: | Copy Writing, Editing, Engineering, Fiction, Writing |
| Location: | California |
| Groups: | Imagine H2O - Please Register at link below, Imagine H2O 2011, [INACTIVE] Imagine H2O |
| Interested in: | Consulting opportunities, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Trading services |
| Tags: | developing countries;, drinking water, reverse osmosis membrane treatment, seawater desalination, softening, water conservation, water treatment |
| Schools: | Florida Atlantic University, University of Southern California |
FEATURED STARTUP
Water Shield
Water Shield
I own a patented technology (in US and China) for conserving water with all cross-flow membrane systems (such as reverse osmosis and nanofiltration) used for residential, commercial and industrial applications.
- Startup type: Invention
- Status: Active
- Stage: Prototyping
FULL BIO
Summary:
Ted Kuepper is Executive Director of Global Water, an international non-profit, humanitarian organization committed to the development of safe-water supplies for the poorest of the poor in developing countries. The organization provides funding, program management and technical assistance for water supply projects to support rural populations in the developing world.
Ted is an environmental engineer. He created and was Director of the US Navy’s Seawater Desalination Test Facility in California from 1983 to 2006. During that period of time, the Test Facility became the premier facility in the US for evaluating components associated with seawater desalination equipment for the desalination industry and US government agencies.
Ted is also a Registered Environmental Manager and consultant to the desalination industry. Particular areas of expertise include developing hardware for remotely-located facilities. This work has brought him to offshore oil platforms in the Persian Gulf region, and he’s worked on projects for the Saudi Arabian government and the Middle East Desalination Research Center in Oman.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Global Water Non-Profit Organization, Washington, D.C. and Oxnard, CA |
| Position: | Executive Director |
| Time period: | January 1998 - Present |
| Description: | I am Executive Director for Global Water, an international non-profit, humanitarian organization committed to the development of safe-water supplies for developing countries. The organization provides funding, program management and technical assistance and equipment for water supply projects in rural regions of developing countries, an area that has been largely ignored by international aid organizations, as well as the leaders of the developing world. Global Water believes the lack of safe water supplies is the root cause of hunger, disease, and poverty throughout the developing world. Having worked in support of relief efforts in the aftermath of the tsunami in Ache, Indonesia and Hurricane Katrina here in the US, I have directed Global Water to become equipment-oriented to help fill the void that now exists in the international “first responder” community. Please see the Global Water website for more detailed information concerning its mission and work of the organization (www.globalwater.org). |
| Employer: | Various |
| Position: | Consultant |
| Time period: | January 1996 - Present |
| Description: | I am an environmental engineer consultant to industry, as well as to US military services. Particular areas of expertise include developing hardware for remotely-located seawater desalination facilities and other water treatment systems. In 2007/2008 I designed the pre-treatment and reverse osmosis stages of a manhandle-able 2,000 GPD desalination system for US military use. This system was specifically designed for a low maintenance application and is now in production. In 2006, I designed and helped install a 3,000 GPD desalination facility for an off-shore oil platform off the coast of Iraq in the Persian Gulf in support of US military forces protecting the oil platform. I have provided consulting services and technical expertise to a variety of desalination-related clients including the Saline Water Conservation Corporation (SWCC), an agency of the Saudi Arabian government, as well as the Middle East Desalination Research Center (MEDRC) in Oman. Work for SWCC included developing a seawater intake structure evaluation designed to evaluate the effectiveness of seawater wells in order to improve the efficiency of desalination facilities in the Arabian Gulf. Work for MEDRC included evaluating point of use (POU) municipal water membrane technologies with emphasis on systems that conserve water by reusing membrane concentrate. In particular, I have developed a low-waste residential and commercial membrane technology with applications for municipal water softening and drinking water demineralization for water-short regions of the world. This technology allows recycling of membrane concentrate at the POU. |
| Employer: | Seawater Desalination Test Facility |
| Position: | Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center, Port Hueneme, CA |
| Time period: | January 1974 - December 2005 |
| Description: | Founder and Managing Director of the Seawater Desalination Test Facility through December 2005 in support of the U.S. Department of Defense. Specific duties included overall program management of the Facility and overseeing all equipment research and development, and test & evaluation projects relating to state-of-the-art water treatment technologies. In particular, I proposed, planned and lead an engineering team effort for projects related to developing and evaluating water treatment technologies with emphasis on seawater desalination equipment. In this capacity, I have evaluated developmental hardware which has led to commercialization of equipment to help push the envelope of state-of-the-art seawater desalination technology. This effort was especially significant for seawater desalination equipment developers during the formative years of the 1980’s and 1990’s when the Test Facility provided a much needed research and development, test & evaluation capability for membrane, high pressure pump, energy recovery, and other equipment developers. Our work included performing some of the initial corrosion evaluations that helped the entire seawater desalination industry choose state-of-the-art corrosion-resistant materials. In addition, I have designed and developed mobile water treatment equipment and hygienic facilities for operation in challenging remote field locations for U.S. military forces. The U.S. military is currently using seawater desalination equipment around the world that I either developed or evaluated and modified for military applications. |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Southern California |
| Time period: | 1980 |
| Degree: | Environmental Engineering, MSc |
| University: | Florida Atlantic University |
| Time period: | 1974 |
| Degree: | Ocean Engineering, BSc |
PUBLICATIONS
| Papers: | Reusing Membrane Concentrate to Save Water, Water Conditioning & Purification Magazine – January 2009
Low-Waste Reuse, Conserving Water in Membrane Treatment Systems for Drinking Water & Softening Applications, Water Efficiency Magazine – November/December 2008 Conserving Water in Membrane Treatment Systems for Drinking Water & Softening Applications, Everything About Water Magazine (published in India) - November 2008 Eliminating Water Waste in Membrane Treatment Systems, Asian Water Magazine - November, 2004 Investigation of Potable Water Quality in Military Storage Containers and Related Components, TM-2372-AMP, co-author, Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center, July 2004 Crevice Corrosion in Seawater, TR-2239-SHR, co-author, Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center, May 2004 Eliminating Water Waste in POU/POE Membrane Systems for Drinking Water & Water Softening Applications using an Open Loop Recirculation Flow Pattern, Presentation given at the Water Quality Association Conference, March 2002 Recirculation Flow Pattern: Eliminating Water Waste in Membrane-Based POU Applications Parts 1&2 Water Conditioning & Purification Magazine – July & August 2001 Open Loop Membrane System Produces Zero Waste for Point of Use (POU) Applications, International Desalination & Water Reuse Quarterly - May/June 2001 How the Water Shield Zero-Waste Reverse Osmosis System Eliminates Wastewater and Its Applications for Residential and Commercial Locations, 2000 Technology Expo and International Symposium for Small Drinking Water and Wastewater Systems, NSF International and Rural Water Research & Education Foundation, January 2000 Testing of High Pressure Pumps and Energy Recovery Devices for the 1,500 GPH ROWPU, TM-2274-AMP, co-author, Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center, February 1998 |
| Patents: | Zero Waste Effluent Desalination System, U.S. Patents 5,520,816 (1996) and 6,103,125 (2000) and International Patents - a point-of-use membrane-based demineralization system that produces high quality product water while eliminating concentrate waste effluent that typically must be discharged to drain. This design creates systems suitable for residential and commercial water treatment applications for water softening and drinking water in water-short regions of the world.
Dynamic Oil Surface Coalescer, U.S. Patent 4,282,097 (1981) - a device used to continuously remove oil and suspended solids from an oil and dirt contaminated water source. This design is particularly suited for difficult-to-treat feedwaters, such as ship bilge water, containing a wide variety of contaminants. Flotation Device with Pretreatment, U.S. Patent 4,156,648 (1979) - a device used to remove detergents and suspended solids from a contaminated water source, such as laundry & shower wastewater. This design is particularly suited for the recycling of laundry and shower wastewater for reuse applications. |
INFORMATION
| Memberships: | Advisory Committees:
Ventura CoastKeeper and Wishtoyo Foundation; Website: www.wishtoyo.org Local environmental non-profit organizations; Office held: Technical Advisor Co-authored a White Paper for the Ventura CoastKeeper concerning the threat of Methylmercury to human health entitled: Methylmercury Contamination and its Global Health Implications; White Paper can be found on the Global Water website: www.globalwater.org Middle East Desalination Research Center: International research center focused on seawater desalination technologies Office Held: Project Advisory Committee |
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