2007–08
Gas-processing complex wastewater
Effluent treatment and water reuse for a gas-processing complex
- Role
- Process engineer; detailed engineering
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- UEM
Develop.Build.Operate.
Industrial wastewater and waste-to-energy plants, engineered with agentic systems built for the job.
01 · Portfolio
Three businesses. One asset lifecycle.
The same plant seen three ways: the company that owns it, the company that built it, and the firm that engineers it. The operating contribution to each is the same: deep technical expertise, delivered as agentic infrastructure.
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01 Own & operate 
Minority owner Owns and operates the Meerut compressed-biogas plant: sugar-mill pressmud and cattle manure into renewable gas and organic fertilizer. ContributionTechnical expertise from design through operations, delivered as agentic infrastructure for the plant team. circlecbg.com The digester bank from the air: four membrane domes, two open digestate tanks alongside, and the covered pressmud pad beyond · Circle CBG
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02 Build 
Owner/operator EPC and O&M for industrial wastewater, zero-liquid-discharge and biogas plants, including the Meerut build. ContributionTechnical expertise on its plants, delivered as agentic infrastructure: agents draft, engineers decide. circleh2o.com 2022, during construction. Vertical reinforcing bars rise around the rim of a concrete tank floor, with workers at the base · Circle CBG
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03 Engineer 
Founder · Principal Engineer Process engineering for industrial wastewater and waste-to-value plants. ContributionBuilds PuranOS, the agentic infrastructure that carries that expertise into the other two. puranwater.com Feed-gas compressor. Boosts cleaned biogas to membrane feed pressure · Circle CBG
02 · Plants
Walk the plants.
Twenty years of industrial water and waste-to-energy work, from gas-plant effluent in Russia to rice-wine stillage in Taiwan and sugar-mill pressmud in India: different feedstocks, different work cultures. Scroll to walk the route; it ends at Meerut, the portfolio’s own plant.
Client projects are anonymized: country only, pins at country level.
The route
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2009–11
Recycled-water plant expansion
Feasibility and equipment engineering for expanding a recycled-water plant
- Role
- Process engineer
- With
- Parsons
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2010–11
Wastewater plant upgrade
Upgrade engineering: membrane bioreactor and sludge-disintegration evaluations
- Role
- Process engineer
- With
- Parsons
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2010
Tertiary treatment for recycled water
Filtration and disinfection to recycled-water standards
- Role
- Process engineer
- With
- Parsons
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2011–16
Pulp and paper effluent with biogas power
Anaerobic pretreatment and energy recovery
- Role
- Lead process engineer; field engineer
- With
- UEM
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2011–16
Industrial effluent recycling
Biological treatment and membrane reuse
- Role
- Lead process engineer
- With
- UEM
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2011–16
Petrochemical wastewater
Anaerobic and aerobic treatment with water reclamation
- Role
- Lead process engineer
- With
- UEM
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2011–16
Textile effluent treatment
Membrane bioreactor
- Role
- Project manager
- With
- UEM
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2016–21
Brewery resource-recovery plant
Anaerobic treatment with biogas recovery, design through commissioning
- Role
- Design-build lead: process, construction oversight, controls commissioning
- With
- PurposeEnergy
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2017–21
Brewery resource-recovery plant
Anaerobic treatment with membrane polishing, design through commissioning
- Role
- Design-build lead: process, construction oversight, controls commissioning
- With
- PurposeEnergy
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2016–21
Brewery resource-recovery plant
Anaerobic treatment with biogas recovery, design through commissioning
- Role
- Design-build lead: process, construction oversight, controls commissioning
- With
- PurposeEnergy
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2019–24
Stillage to energy
Anaerobic treatment with biogas to power; engineered and supplied equipment
- Role
- Process engineering and equipment supply; from 2021 as a subcontractor to PurposeEnergy
- With
- PurposeEnergy · Puran Water
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2021–
Dairy byproduct to renewable gas
Anaerobic treatment, gas upgrading and water reclamation
- Role
- Feasibility and engineering advisory
- With
- Puran Water
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2026
Brewery wastewater pretreatment
Pathway study for an anaerobic pretreatment plant
- Role
- Diagnostic and recommendation
- With
- Puran Water
AgentsPuranOS agents reconciled the plant records and modelled the receiving treatment plant.
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2025
Beverage-plant anaerobic reactor
Reactor internals, design through supply and operations documents
- Role
- Design and supply
- With
- Circle H2O
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2020–22
Common effluent plant upgrade
Aeration, blower and cooling upgrades for a textile-cluster treatment plant
- Role
- Upgrade engineering and operations support
- With
- Circle H2O
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2020–21
Sewage reclamation for reuse
Membrane bioreactor with controls
- Role
- Process engineering and commissioning
- With
- Circle H2O
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2022–
Tannery effluent, zero liquid discharge
Membrane bioreactor, reverse osmosis, salt and chrome recovery
- Role
- Process design lead
- With
- Circle H2O
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2022–24
Cattle dung to compressed biogas
Digestion, gas upgrading and compression, with organic fertilizer
- Role
- Process and procurement review; controls
- With
- Circle H2O
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2023–24
Cellulose-plant effluent, zero liquid discharge
Membrane bioreactor, ion exchange, high-recovery reverse osmosis and evaporation
- Role
- Process engineering; membrane and controls design
- With
- Circle H2O
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2023–
Pharmaceutical effluent, zero liquid discharge
Membrane bioreactor, ion exchange, high-recovery reverse osmosis and evaporation
- Role
- Process engineering
- With
- Circle H2O
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2024–
Township sewage and water plants
Membrane bioreactors and submerged ultrafiltration
- Role
- Process engineering, clean-in-place sizing and control philosophy
- With
- Circle H2O
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2024–
Process effluent to compressed biogas
Anaerobic digestion, membrane gas upgrading and compression
- Role
- Technology provider: basis of design, P&IDs and vendor reviews
- With
- Circle H2O
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2025–
Factory water, sewage and effluent plants
Membrane bioreactor; high-recovery reverse osmosis and evaporation; ultrafiltration and nanofiltration for process water
- Role
- Process engineering: P&IDs, bills of quantities, commissioning procedures
- With
- Circle H2O
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2025–
Common effluent plant, zero liquid discharge
Membrane bioreactor retrofit, ion exchange, reverse osmosis and evaporation
- Role
- Basis of design and control philosophy
- With
- Circle H2O
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2025–
Nutrition-plant effluent and sewage
Flotation, biological nitrogen removal and membrane bioreactor
- Role
- Process design
- With
- Circle H2O
AgentsAgent-run process models used to test treatment and dosing options before start-up.
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2025–
Pharmaceutical water and effluent plants
High-recovery reverse osmosis, ion exchange and zero-liquid-discharge effluent treatment
- Role
- Basis of design
- With
- Circle H2O
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2026–
Textile effluent, zero liquid discharge
Membrane bioreactor, reverse osmosis and evaporation
- Role
- Basis-of-design lead; process and civil review
- With
- Circle H2O
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2021–
Pressmud and manure to compressed biogas
Digestion, gas upgrading, compression and organic fertilizer
- Role
- Minority owner; technical expertise from design through operations
- With
- Circle CBG · Circle H2O
AgentsA PuranOS maintenance agent supports daily operations. Advice only; people act.
03 · Systems
Every plant has a second asset: its engineering record.
Built by agents wired into real engineering software, and kept with the plant into operations. Agents draft. Engineers decide.
PuranOS · engineering record
Gas upgrading
Membrane model · source excerpt
- Project
- Meerut CBG
- Produced with
- PuranOS
- Discipline
- Process
- Standing
- Committed code · no operating values
PuranOS · engineering record
Anaerobic digestion
Dynamic digestion model · source excerpt
- Project
- Meerut CBG
- Produced with
- PuranOS
- Discipline
- Process
- Standing
- Committed code · no operating values
PuranOS · engineering record
H₂S removal
Gas-cleaning calculations · source excerpt
- Project
- Meerut CBG
- Produced with
- PuranOS
- Discipline
- Process
- Standing
- Committed code · no operating values
github.com/puran-water Puran Water — engineering tools Open-source MCP servers that put real engineering software in an agent’s hands: CAD, process simulation, water chemistry, hydraulics, heat transfer.
- autocad-mcp AutoCAD drafting for agents ★ 641
- PuranOS-public Architecture and operations docs
- water-chemistry-mcp PHREEQC through MCP
- watertap-engine-mcp WaterTAP flowsheets through MCP
- StewardOS Self-hosted family-office operating system ★ 16
- office-365-mcp-server Microsoft 365 through MCP ★ 17
- 20 yrs
- Design-build, 2006–
- NY PE
- No. 095830
- 8 countries
- North America · Europe · Asia
- Cornell
- BS ChemE ’06
- UC Berkeley
- MS CEE ’09
Twenty years across the design, EPC delivery and ownership of industrial wastewater, zero-liquid-discharge and anaerobic waste-to-energy plants in eight countries. The operating contribution to each business: deep technical expertise, delivered as agentic infrastructure.
Experience
- 2021–
Puran Water LLC Greater Boston
Founder · Principal Engineer
Process engineering and technology for industrial wastewater and waste-to-value plants, delivered through PuranOS, the firm’s agentic engineering system.
- 2021–
Circle CBG India Pvt. Ltd. Meerut, India
Minority owner
Owns and operates a compressed-biogas plant. Contribution: technical expertise from development through construction, commissioning and operations, now delivered as agentic infrastructure that supports the plant team.
- Current
Circle H2O Florida · India
Owner/operator
EPC and O&M for industrial wastewater, zero-liquid-discharge and biogas plants. Contribution: technical expertise on its plants, delivered as agentic infrastructure: agents draft the models, drawings and documents; engineers decide.
- Current2016–21
PurposeEnergy, Inc. Greater Boston
Director of Intelligence (fractional)
Director of Engineering
Design-build anaerobic plants for food and beverage producers, from sales through commissioning and operations support.
- 2011–16
UEM, Inc. West Palm Beach, FL
Process / Project Engineer · minority owner
International industrial water EPC: lead process engineer and project manager across the Middle East, South Asia and North America.
- 2009–11
Parsons Water & Infrastructure Pasadena, CA
Process Engineer
Municipal water and wastewater: recycled water, treatment-plant upgrades and reuse planning.
- 2006–08
UEM, Inc. West Palm Beach, FL
Process Engineer
Process design and detailed engineering for industrial water and wastewater, project financial models and biogas emission-reduction work.
Projects
| 2007–08 | Russia | Gas-plant effluent: Gas-processing complex wastewater | UEM |
| 2009–11 | United States | Municipal effluent: Recycled-water plant expansion | Parsons |
| 2010–11 | United States | Municipal sewage: Wastewater plant upgrade | Parsons |
| 2010 | United States | Municipal effluent: Tertiary treatment for recycled water | Parsons |
| 2011–16 | Canada | Pulp-mill effluent: Pulp and paper effluent with biogas power | UEM |
| 2011–16 | Oman | Mixed industrial effluent: Industrial effluent recycling | UEM |
| 2011–16 | India | Petrochemical effluent: Petrochemical wastewater | UEM |
| 2011–16 | Bangladesh | Textile effluent: Textile effluent treatment | UEM |
| 2016–21 | United States | Brewery wastewater: Brewery resource-recovery plant | PurposeEnergy |
| 2017–21 | United States | Brewery wastewater: Brewery resource-recovery plant | PurposeEnergy |
| 2016–21 | United States | Brewery wastewater: Brewery resource-recovery plant | PurposeEnergy |
| 2019–24 | Taiwan | Rice-wine stillage: Stillage to energy | PurposeEnergy · Puran Water |
| 2021– | United States | Dairy byproduct: Dairy byproduct to renewable gas | Puran Water |
| 2026 | United States | Brewery wastewater: Brewery wastewater pretreatment | Puran Water |
| 2025 | Mexico | Beverage wastewater: Beverage-plant anaerobic reactor | Circle H2O |
| 2020–22 | India | Textile effluent: Common effluent plant upgrade | Circle H2O |
| 2020–21 | India | Municipal sewage: Sewage reclamation for reuse | Circle H2O |
| 2022– | India | Tannery effluent: Tannery effluent, zero liquid discharge | Circle H2O |
| 2022–24 | India | Cattle dung: Cattle dung to compressed biogas | Circle H2O |
| 2023–24 | India | Cellulose-plant effluent: Cellulose-plant effluent, zero liquid discharge | Circle H2O |
| 2023– | India | Pharmaceutical effluent: Pharmaceutical effluent, zero liquid discharge | Circle H2O |
| 2024– | India | Township sewage and water: Township sewage and water plants | Circle H2O |
| 2024– | India | High-strength biotech effluent: Process effluent to compressed biogas | Circle H2O |
| 2025– | India | Factory sewage, effluent and water: Factory water, sewage and effluent plants | Circle H2O |
| 2025– | India | Industrial-estate effluent: Common effluent plant, zero liquid discharge | Circle H2O |
| 2025– | India | Infant-nutrition and dairy effluent: Nutrition-plant effluent and sewage | Circle H2O |
| 2025– | India | Pharmaceutical effluent and process water: Pharmaceutical water and effluent plants | Circle H2O |
| 2026– | India | Textile effluent: Textile effluent, zero liquid discharge | Circle H2O |
| 2021– | Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India | Pressmud and cattle manure: Pressmud and manure to compressed biogas | Circle CBG · Circle H2O |
Competencies
- Process
- Anaerobic digestion (IC, UASB, CSTR) · MBR · BNR (IFAS, SBR) · ZLD · UF/RO/NF · biogas to CHP, RNG and CBG
- Delivery
- FEED packages · procurement and construction management · PLC/HMI commissioning · owner’s engineering · BOO/BOOT financial models
- Agentic systems
- Multi-agent orchestration · MCP servers for deterministic engineering computation · human approval gates · provenance
- Models
- QSDsan · WaterTAP · PHREEQC · CoolProp / Thermo / Fluids
Education
- University of California, Berkeley · 2009
M.S., Civil & Environmental Engineering - Cornell University · 2006
B.S., Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, magna cum laude
AIChE Outstanding Scholar (Twin Tiers Section) · Tau Beta Pi
Patent
- Selective Gas Extraction to Manage Toxicity and pH in Anaerobic Environments
WO 2018/140742 A1 (PCT) · Co-inventor, 2018
Publications & talks
- “Recycled Water for the Sohar Industrial Port Area” — 30th Annual WateReuse Symposium
- “Recycled Water for Refinery Applications: Challenges, Solutions, and Economics” — WEFTEC (83rd)
- “Benefiting Bakersfield” — Civil Engineering magazine (co-author)