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Built by the people who commercialized membrane brine concentration

Osmosys was founded in 2020 to move the concentrated end of the water cycle off thermal equipment and onto membranes. The team had already taken that process to commercial scale once.

A spiral-wound membrane element being loaded into its pressure vessel
Company overview
An asset-light technology and process-integration company: proprietary process design, application engineering, and performance assurance stay in-house; detailed engineering, fabrication, and construction are executed with qualified partners.
Our mission
To treat difficult water at lower cost, lower energy and lower carbon than the thermal equipment it replaces, at commercial scale.
Our approach
Membranes carry every duty they can; thermal handles what remains. The stages are designed against each other, and the process is proven on the customer’s own water before the commercial design is fixed.

How we work

One accountable process team, from sample to operating plant

Evaluate the duty

The first decision is whether membrane concentration fits the chemistry and the project economics at all.

  • Review flow, full chemistry, variability, temperature, and current treatment route
  • Define the water, waste, compliance, or recovery objective
  • Compare the likely membrane-led train with the incumbent disposal or thermal route

Prove it on the water

High-salinity streams cannot be specified from TDS alone. Bench and pilot work establish the real operating window.

  • Pretreatment and scaling-control program
  • Recovery, concentration, flux, energy, and cleaning behavior
  • Representative operation across feed variability

Design the complete train

Osmosys supplies the process design that connects pretreatment, membrane stages, energy recovery, controls, and downstream treatment.

  • Mass balance, process flow diagrams, and equipment sizing
  • P&IDs, control philosophy, materials, and utility requirements
  • Performance basis and integration package for the EPC or owner

Supply and integrate

The scope can cover the proprietary membrane stages or the complete packaged treatment system.

  • MBC and SAMRO process equipment
  • Third-party pretreatment and downstream equipment integration
  • Factory testing, site support, commissioning, and operator training

Commission and operate

A design only matters if the plant holds its targets as the feed and operating conditions move.

  • Performance testing against the agreed design basis
  • Operating support, cleaning optimization, and troubleshooting
  • Design-build-operate structures where the project requires them
  • A compact pilot membrane-filtration skid with a pressure vessel, pump and instrumentation
  • The control room of a delivered plant, with process graphics on a wall of monitors

Leadership

The core technologies on this site were invented by the people running the company.

  • Dr. Basel Abusharkh

    Dr. Basel Abusharkh

    Founder & CEO

    Lead process designer and the inventor behind the platform; leads technology partnerships and business development.

    • PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison
    • Founder of InoChem and Hyrec; inventor of osmotically assisted RO (OARO)
    • 15 patents in water treatment processes
    • Advisor to the Saudi Water Authority, RDIA, and MEWA
    • XPRIZE Water Scarcity qualifier 2025 · GWI Technology Idol Award 2019
  • Emre Bozkurt

    Emre Bozkurt

    Co-founder & Chief Engineer

    Leads system design to P&ID level, supervises fabrication drawings, and runs R&D at the Ankara lab.

    • 20 years in advanced water treatment and system integration
    • Former Engineering Director at Hyrec
    • Designed the SAMRO™ and MemBrine™ commercial pilots
    • Built fabrication partner network across the UAE, KSA, and China
  • Tariq Khodary

    Tariq Khodary

    Chief Commercial Officer

    Has secured major contracts with government utilities and mega-projects across MENA; leads commercial strategy and project management.

    • 25 years of commercial leadership in GCC water markets
    • Former Xylem, Suez/GE Water, and WETICO
    • VP Commercial, Future Horizons Contracting
  • Pia Boyer

    Pia Boyer

    Chief Operating Officer

    Leads company operations and supports project delivery across the GCC and Europe.

    • 30 years of international project management
    • Founder of Euphrates Energies, brine valorization outreach with Khalifa University and KAUST
    • Founder of Optim@trans; managed €30M+ annual budgets
  • Ibrahim Abusharkh

    Ibrahim Abusharkh

    Financial Strategy

    Negotiates contracts and manages cash flow, invoicing, and financial planning.

    • BEng, Chemical Engineering, Cooper Union
    • Ex-ExxonMobil and Ex-Amazon

Where we sit in the market

  • What we bring

    Developed in-house
    The concentration process was developed by this team and taken to commercial operation.
    Delivered plants
    Installations in operation, including a 10,800 m³/day municipal brine train.
    Feed to crystallizer on one train
    Desalination, brine concentration and lithium integration on the same equipment family.
    Asset-light delivery
    Process design and performance assurance in-house; fabrication and construction with qualified partners near the project site.

  • Where the market is

    A range with no membrane supplier
    Above 90,000 mg/L there was no commercial membrane option before MemBrine Concentrator™. The alternative was an evaporator.
    0.48 kWh/m³
    SAMRO™ specific energy on seawater, against 1.36 for standard reverse osmosis on the same duty.
    Protected
    Fifteen filings across the concentration process and the ZLD train.

A first read on your stream

Send the flow, the chemistry, and the target. A process engineer replies with a first read on recovery, energy, and the train worth piloting.

Discuss your streamSee delivered work