Ferrate Treatment Technologies, LLC

Our Mission

To be the global provider of water treatment solutions based on Ferrate, the most powerful, multi-use, and environmentally friendly water treatment chemistry known. FTT will commercialize Ferrate to purify water, improve human health and clean up industrial contamination worldwide. Ferrate chemistry can treat Drinking Water, Wastewater, Ballast Water, and Industrial applications including Mining, Oil & Gas, Power Generation, Chemicals, Food & Beverage, Nuclear, and Agricultural. FTT’s manufacturing breakthrough drives this vision and stakeholders’ profits define our success.

Ferrate is a supercharged iron molecule in which iron is in the plus 6 oxidation state; it is better known as Iron(VI).  Ferrate is extremely powerful, can deliver multiple treatments from a single application, does not create disinfection byproducts, is environmentally friendly, and solves difficult treatment challenges that other oxidants can’t touch. Most importantly, Ferrate is often the least expensive and most effective treatment option.

A Laboratory Curiosity … Until Now

Research scientists have been testing Ferrate for the past 50 years.  Previous attempts to commercialize a Ferrate product were unsuccessful due to high synthesis, packaging and transport costs, which made Ferrate too expensive for broad industrial use. We solved this problem by patenting a method to manufacture liquid Ferrate “onsite” so that it can be applied when its potency is highest.

The relative strength of water treatment chemicals can be measured in volts, similar to an electrical circuit. Scientists compare the reduction – oxidation potential or “redox” potential for different compounds which is a gauge of their ability to gain or donate electrons in a chemical reaction; the higher the redox potential, the more powerful the reaction. Ferrate is the most powerful common oxidant/disinfectant for water and wastewater treatments. Various redox potentials measured in volts are: Ferrate - 2.2, Ozone - 2.08, Hydrogen peroxide - 1.78, Permanganate - 1.68, Hypochlorite - 1.48, Perchlorate - 1.39, Chlorine - 1.36, Dissolved Oxygen - 1.23, Chlorine Dioxide - 0.95.

Multiple Treatments from a Single Dose
In a single application, Ferrate can simultaneously perform as an oxidant, coagulant, and disinfectant. Ferrate is more powerful than other oxidants such as ozone and chlorine dioxide. It can replace coagulants such as ferric chloride, alum and polymers for the removal of metals, non-metals and humic acids. It outperforms other disinfectants such as UV, hydrogen peroxide, and chlorine and can kill many chlorine resistant organisms such as aerobic spore-formers and sulphite-reducing clostridia. Ferrate is a versatile, powerful, multi-use water and wastewater treatment technology.

Contaminants Treatable By Ferrate

As Ferrate (iron six) is reduced (by stealing electrons from something else) it falls back down from iron 6+ to 5+ to 4+ to 3+ (ferric iron), in the process acting as an Oxidant, then Coagulant, and finally as a Flocculent. Uniquely, Ferrate performs these three distinct treatment functions from the application of a single dose.  Therefore, Ferrate has the potential to work in many water and wastewater treatment markets worldwide. 

Below, please find a long but only partial list of the contaminants that Ferrate can be used to treat. This list was compiled from independent research results found in the published studies around the world.  Note that we have not attempted to include efficacious dosages or the particular treatment regimen employed.  For more detailed information, please lookup specific studies and results.