Feasibility studies
Assessment of wastewater problems, sludge-reduction potential, treatment options, and first technical decision criteria.
Textile wastewater · feasibility · pilot preparation
Realistic validation for lower-sludge textile wastewater treatment.
HydroTex is a founder-led environmental technology and project-development initiative from Freiburg. The first step is not equipment sales, but evidence-building: wastewater assessment, techno-economic review, industrial engagement, and pilot-ready validation material.
Feasibility-first
Low-overhead setup
Real wastewater validation
Business model
Feasibility first, pilot second.
HydroTex is structured at the early stage as a commercial environmental technology, consulting, and project-development service. Revenue is expected first through project-based services, not through large infrastructure assumptions.
Wastewater and cost assessment
Technical review of color load, chemical demand, sludge burden, operating cost, and compliance-related risk.
Pilot preparation
Sampling plan, KPIs, test logic, partner coordination, and documentation for later industrial pilot validation.
Impact and customer value
Practical relevance for textile mills, grant providers, and impact investors.
The value lies in a testable pathway to lower sludge burden, reduced chemical dependency, better compliance confidence, and more realistic pilot decisions.
Potential sludge reduction
HydroTex aims to assess whether an extraction-based approach can reduce sludge burden compared with chemical-intensive coagulation and flocculation pathways.
Lower compliance risk
The focus is dye-rich wastewater, visible color reduction, and more transparent treatment evidence.
Grant and impact relevance
Validation addresses resource efficiency, waste reduction, and practical environmental impact in textile supply chains.
Technology concept
Solvent extraction, validated without hype.
HydroTex investigates a regenerable extraction approach for dye-rich textile wastewater. The technology is still in validation: the critical questions are real samples, robust phase separation, solvent stability, secondary waste, and credible cost per cubic meter.
Textile mill
Colored effluent, sludge and compliance pressure
HydroTex review
Extraction, regeneration, cost logic
Pilot decision
Data-based next step
Digital process optimisation: A later digital layer may include process monitoring, environmental data analytics, and data-driven optimisation. AI-supported optimisation may become relevant only after enough laboratory and pilot data exist.
Validation roadmap
A grant- and pilot-ready development pathway.
The setup is intentionally lean: home-office coordination in Freiburg, industrial and university partners for validation, and Malaysia as the first access route to real textile wastewater streams.
- Real textile wastewater samples from Malaysia and Southeast Asia
- Color removal, phase separation, and repeated regeneration
- Solvent loss, secondary waste, and preliminary OPEX logic
- Pilot concept, partner discussions, and possible LOIs
Phase 1
Industrial engagement and wastewater access
Engage textile mills, university partners, and technical partners, secure real wastewater samples, and test the concrete customer need.
Phase 2
Technical and economic feasibility
Validate color removal, phase separation, solvent loss, secondary waste, and cost assumptions with real samples.
Phase 3
Pilot-ready project structure
Prepare LOIs, pilot concept, budget logic, and grant or partner materials for the next industrial development step.
Partnerships and validation status
Structured preparation for international cooperation.
HydroTex is being prepared as an environmental technology initiative with a clear validation pathway. The current focus is business planning in Germany, partner development, and careful preparation for real wastewater validation in Malaysia.
International partnershipsHydroTex is in structured startup preparation in Germany, not yet a formally registered operating company.
The business model and pitch deck have been developed further through EXI.green / Grunhof support.
The business plan and viability assessment are being prepared with IHK support.
Academic collaboration with Universiti Sains Malaysia is documented by a Letter of Intent.
Malaysia is planned as the first international validation region for real wastewater learning and pilot preparation.
Dr. Amir Talebi
Founder · Environmental Technology
Freiburg im Breisgau / Southern Upper Rhine
Founder-led initiative
Environmental technology, international validation, and data-driven development.
Dr. Amir Talebi combines a PhD in Environmental Technology, more than 15 years of professional experience in Malaysia, wastewater treatment and resource recovery expertise, environmental data science and analytics, and international collaboration experience. HydroTex is structured as a gradual transition into a specialized environmental technology and project-development initiative, with the current focus on customer discovery, real wastewater samples, feasibility evidence, and pilot preparation.
Pilot partnership
Seeking industrial and validation partners.
HydroTex is looking for textile mills, university partners, and funding actors for real wastewater samples, technical discussions, LOI-ready cooperation, and pilot-oriented project development.