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SedAway Vortex System: sediment management for water and energy assets
- Published 15 April 2026; estimated reading time 2 minutes. Marked “Soon available”; regions listed are the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania. Categories include Energy, Technology, Digital infrastructure, and Water and wastewater.
- CHATTIGR’s SedAway Vortex System is described as a modular inline system for sediment separation and monitoring in rivers, reservoirs, hydropower plants and water-supply infrastructure. It combines non-blocking hydrodynamic vortex manifolds with AIoT sensors, control hardware and digital twins. The claimed design uses the water’s own energy and separates sediment without interrupting flow, with the aim of reducing settling basins, dredging and disruptive flushing.
- Multimodal sensors feed a cloud-connected digital twin for predictive maintenance, automated regulation and ongoing optimisation. The article says this could extend asset life, reduce dredging and flushing costs, support more predictable power and water supply, reduce outages and help regulatory reporting. It also claims environmental benefits from fewer check dams, less fuel use and fewer disruptive flushes.
- The page frames rapid sediment buildup as a threat to reservoir capacity, hydropower, flood control and water security. It cites Europe having lost nearly one-fifth of reservoir capacity and projects Japan could lose up to 50% by 2050. It quotes the sediment-management market above USD 1.6 billion, expected to exceed USD 3.2 billion by 2033; these are article-provided figures/projections.
- Development status: despite the product description, the page marks it “Soon available” and explicitly says the system is currently being piloted. Planned market entry begins in Taiwan and Japan, with Ireland, Italy, the UK and wider Europe named for later expansion. Commercial performance and deployment are therefore not yet established by this article.
- Linked to SDGs 6 (Clean water and sanitation) and 7 (Affordable and clean energy).
- Contact: Yu-Fen Chang, CEO, yfc@ctgr.dev. Company: CHATTIGR AS, Sommerfeldts gate 53, 9009 Tromsø, Norway; ctgr.dev. A phone-number reveal control is present.