The One Fluence approach reflects nearly a decade of building an integrated global organization.

One Fluence delivers solutions across the water cycle in countries around the world

No matter where you live, water challenges are becoming more complex and increasingly connected. Communities and industries are changing how they think about water because of growing demand, aging infrastructure, water scarcity, tighter discharge requirements, and the need to recover resources.

In many cases, solving one part of the water cycle requires understanding what happens before and after that particular part. This means customers need more than a treatment technology. They need the technical expertise, engineering capabilities, and project experience to bring the right technologies together and make them work in a complete system.

This is the idea behind One Fluence.

Fluence was incorporated in 2017, bringing together businesses and technologies with histories going back much farther. Fluence continues to bring together technologies, engineering capabilities, and teams from across the water industry. The One Fluence approach reflects nearly a decade of building an integrated global organization.

Today, Fluence provides diverse solutions, with a portfolio that spans municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment, decentralized and packaged systems, desalination, water reuse, ultrapure water, resource recovery, and waste-to-energy.

The goal isn’t simply to offer more technologies. The goal is to combine the right technologies and technical expertise needed for a specific project.

One Team. One Process. One Partner.

At the center of One Fluence is a simple idea: Customers shouldn’t have to navigate a different organization to deal with every aspect of their water challenge.

A project might involve process engineering, treatment technology, equipment manufacturing, controls, installation, commissioning, and ongoing operations support. Depending on the application, it may also require expertise in desalination, biological treatment, membrane processes, water reuse, or resource recovery.

Fluence brings these capabilities together within one global organization.

Customers and partners can work with a local Fluence team while accessing a broader network of engineering, applications, manufacturing, project delivery, and technical resources.

This combination of local presence and global expertise is particularly important for projects where site conditions, regulations, water quality, and operating requirements vary significantly from one location to another.

Fluence now has operations in 13 countries and has delivered projects in more than 70 countries. Its capabilities extend from research and development and applications engineering through manufacturing, project execution, commissioning, and long-term operations and maintenance.

The result is a different way of approaching water projects — not as a collection of individual technologies, but as interconnected systems.

From Decentralized Treatment to Complete Water Solutions

Fluence’s roots are in decentralized and packaged water and wastewater treatment, and they remain an important part of the business.

Decentralized treatment can provide a practical alternative when centralized infrastructure is unavailable, too far away, or difficult to expand. Modular and containerized systems can also shorten project timelines and provide flexibility as treatment capacity evolves over time.

Fluence has built on this foundation with technologies including membrane aerated biofilm reactor (MABR) systems and packaged treatment platforms designed for municipal, commercial, and industrial applications.

MABR, for example, uses gas-permeable membranes to transfer oxygen directly to microorganisms growing on the membrane surface. This approach can provide biological wastewater treatment while reducing the energy associated with conventional aeration. It also allows treatment systems to be configured in a relatively compact footprint.

But decentralized treatment is only one part of the picture.

Fluence’s broader portfolio includes conventional and advanced biological wastewater treatment, water and wastewater filtration, reverse osmosis, ultrafiltration, desalination, disinfection, water reuse, ultrapure water, and resource recovery.

These technologies can be deployed individually or combined into treatment trains depending on the characteristics of the source water or wastewater and the quality requirements of the final product.

Addressing Municipal Water Challenges

Municipal water challenges vary from one community to another:

• A remote community may need a compact treatment system that can operate with limited on-site resources.
• A growing municipality may need to expand existing treatment capacity.
• A water-stressed region may want to augment water supplies with desalination or water reuse.
• An established utility may need to upgrade an existing facility to meet changing treatment requirements.

The technical approach depends on factors including:

• Flow rate
• Source-water characteristics
• Effluent requirements
• Available space
• Energy requirements
• Local operating conditions

Fluence can help in all of these cases with systems ranging from packaged and modular solutions to larger treatment infrastructure.

Flexibility is an important part of the One Fluence approach. Fluence starts with the water challenge and project requirements, then determines which combination of processes and technologies makes sense.

Industrial Water Requires a Different Approach

Industrial water and wastewater can be even more complex:

• A food and beverage facility may have wastewater with high organic loading.
• A mining operation may need to manage highly variable water chemistry.
• A pharmaceutical or semiconductor facility may require very high-quality process water.
• A manufacturing facility may be looking for ways to increase water reuse while reducing consumption of fresh water.

In each case, treatment has to work within the larger industrial process.

Fluence provides industrial water and wastewater solutions that can include:

• Process and utility water treatment
• Wastewater treatment
• Membrane processes
• Biological treatment
• Water reuse
• Desalination
• Resource recovery

Depending on the application, projects can begin with process evaluation and laboratory or pilot testing before moving into engineering, equipment supply, installation, and commissioning.

This process-oriented approach is important because treatment of industrial wastewater can be complex. Treatment performance can affect production, water consumption, discharge compliance, energy use, and operating costs.

Because of this, understanding the process that generates the wastewater is just as important as understanding the wastewater itself.

Beyond Treatment: Reuse and Resource Recovery

Water treatment is also becoming less about disposal and more about recovery.

Instead of viewing wastewater solely as something that needs to be treated and discharged, customers are increasingly looking at what can be recovered from it:

• Water can be treated for reuse.
• Organic matter can be converted into biogas.
• Desalination can provide an alternative source of fresh water in water-stressed regions.
• Advanced treatment can produce water suitable for demanding industrial processes.

Fluence’s technologies and project capabilities extend into these areas, including:

• Water reuse
• Desalination
• Ultrapure water production
• Resource recovery
• Wastewater-to-energy

The specific solution depends on the customer’s objectives and the characteristics of the water or wastewater being treated.

In some applications, the priority may be reducing freshwater demand. In others, it may be recovering energy or meeting a stringent discharge requirement. Increasingly, these objectives can be addressed together.

The Technology Is Only Part of the Project

A treatment technology can be technically sound and still fail to deliver the expected results if the project isn’t properly engineered, integrated, commissioned, and operated.

That’s why execution is such an important part of One Fluence.

Fluence supports projects through multiple stages of their life cycles, from initial evaluation and process selection through engineering, manufacturing, installation, commissioning, and ongoing operational support.

This also includes digital tools to monitor and manage treatment systems.

Fluence’s Smart Operations platform provides remote monitoring capabilities that can give operators greater visibility into system performance and operating conditions. For decentralized and remote systems in particular, this type of connectivity can help reduce the need for continuous on-site personnel while providing access to operational information.

The objective is straightforward: Make sure the technology continues to perform as intended after commissioning.

One Fluence, Across the Water Cycle

The evolution of Fluence is ultimately about bringing different parts of the water industry closer together.

The company began with a h3 focus on decentralized and modular treatment. Today, that expertise sits alongside capabilities in municipal and industrial water and wastewater, desalination, water reuse, ultrapure water, resource recovery, and wastewater-to-energy.

Those capabilities matter individually, but their value increases when they can be combined around a customer’s specific requirements. For example:

• A municipality may need drinking water treatment and wastewater reuse.
• An industrial facility may need process water, wastewater treatment, and resource recovery.
• A remote site may need a compact, automated treatment system that can be monitored from a distance.

Each application is different.

The common requirement is the ability to understand the complete water system and bring together the appropriate technologies, engineering expertise, and project capabilities to address it.

That is what One Fluence is designed to do:

• From source water to drinking water.
• From wastewater treatment to reuse.
• From desalination to resource recovery.
• From decentralized systems to larger municipal and industrial infrastructure.

One Fluence brings together one global team, a broad technical portfolio, and the project capabilities needed to deliver solutions across the water cycle. Contact Fluence to learn more about how solutions can be custom-tailored to your project’s needs.