# Infinite Cooling

> Infinite Cooling is an MIT-spinout climate-tech company that helps the world's most water-intensive industries cut water loss and run cooling towers smarter. Its patented WaterPanel technology uses electric fields to recapture purified water escaping as plume from cooling towers, while its TowerPulse platform layers AI-driven analytics and real-time monitoring on top of existing cooling systems. Customers include power plants, data centers, refineries and manufacturers across the U.S. and internationally, including a flagship deployment with EDF, the world's largest nuclear operator.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** Malden, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founders:** Maher Damak (Co-founder & CEO), Karim Khalil (Co-founder & CTO), Kripa Varanasi (Co-founder & Chairman (MIT Professor))
- **Team size:** 17
- **Products:** WaterPanel, TowerPulse, Plume Abatement
- **Notable:** Won the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition (2018), Won MassChallenge and the DOE National Cleantech University Prize competition, Featured in MIT News, IEEE Spectrum and POWER Magazine

## Products & services

- **WaterPanel** — Patented, MIT-developed system that uses electric fields to charge and capture droplets in the plume leaving cooling towers, recovering high-purity water for reuse and reducing both water consumption and treatment costs.
- **TowerPulse** — AI-powered cooling tower analytics and real-time monitoring platform that uses sensors and machine learning to optimize performance, cut energy and water use, and flag maintenance issues before they cause downtime.
- **Plume Abatement** — Low-power retrofit that captures and eliminates visible plume from cooling towers, helping facilities meet environmental and visibility regulations without high-energy heated-air systems.

## Achievements

- Won the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition (2018)
- Won MassChallenge and the DOE National Cleantech University Prize competition
- Featured in MIT News, IEEE Spectrum and POWER Magazine
- Closed a $12.25M Series A led by Material Impact (2021)
- Estimated potential to capture up to 400 billion gallons of otherwise-lost water annually
- Selected by EDF for a flagship water-recovery pilot at a 3.6GW nuclear plant

## Latest updates

- **2024-09** — Announced partnership with EDF to test water-recovery technology at the Bugey Nuclear Power Plant; testing phase runs Aug 2024-Mar 2025.
- **2025-03** — Concluded the EDF Bugey test phase assessing recovered water volume, purity and operational impact across diverse conditions.

## Links

- Website: https://infinite-cooling.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/infinite-cooling
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/InfiniteCooling

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