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DOC REF AD 08102026 · REV 08.2026
Q-SMEC USE CASES
NAICS 2213 — Water & Wastewater Sector
Quantum-anchored materials design for sensing, energy containment, and resilient infrastructure, custom-engineered to End User target specifications.
The Q-SMEC Materials Development Framework
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22-Layer Technology Stack
Q-SMEC (Quantum Superconducting Magnetic Energy Containment) enables custom design of advanced materials in layered architectures.
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Orders-of-Magnitude Performance
Performance characteristics several orders of magnitude better than current state-of-the-art alternatives, built to End User provided target specifications.
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TRL / MRL Maturation Model
NIKET matures a customized material through Non-Recurring TRL/MRL Levels 3–5 on internal/partner funding, and Levels 6–9 in close coordination with the Industry End User.
NIKET Q-SMEC — Validated TRL/MRL Level 3 applicability to water & wastewater use cases
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Desalination Membrane
Superior to oxygenated graphene, producible in monolayer and stacked multilayer.
Q-SMEC membrane engineering targets 99.999% salt rejection across all six major rejection mechanisms: size exclusion, dehydration effects, charge repulsion, pore biophysics, pore chemical solute interactions, and entropic differences. Nanopore sizing holds 99.999% uniformity with near-elimination of intrinsic and extrinsic defects.
Target Specifications
| Flux | 150–200 L/cm²/day/MPa |
| Salt rejection | 99.999% · 6 mechanisms |
| Nanopore uniformity | 99.999% |
| Defects | Near elimination |
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Q-SMEC Sensor Suite — 16 Modalities
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pHCHLORINETURBIDITYDISSOLVED O₂VIBRATIONACOUSTICPRESSURETEMPERATUREHUMIDITYFLOWPROXIMITYHYDROGEN SULFIDEFLUID COMPOSITIONELISA-QPCRVOCMETHANE
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16 Q-SMEC sensing modalities applicable across water and wastewater treatment, distribution, and collection infrastructure.
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Q-SMEC Optimized Smart Meter
Utility-grade metering with embedded Q-SMEC sensing, self-contained Q-SMEC storage power, and post-quantum-secure two-way communications.
- Up to 256 channels with NILM load disaggregation and real-time outage detection.
- Ten embedded Q-SMEC sensors: temperature (2), voltage (2), power (2), pressure (2), arc (1), tilt (1).
- Post-Quantum Crypto encryption, inherently anti-tamper, applicable across Front, Midlevel, and Backhaul domains.
Key Notional Specs
| Compliance | ANSI C12.20 |
| Operating voltage | 120–480 V ±0.1% |
| Waveform streaming | 5–15 kHz V/I samples |
| Comms | 5G 75 Mbps · ISM · 2.4 GHz |
| Environment | −40 to 85 °C · 95% RH |
| Power supply | Q-SMEC storage system |
Full notional specification: see the Water & Wastewater technical specification sheet.
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Department of War–Grade PQC OT/CIP Cybersecurity
Post-Quantum Cryptography for Operational Technology and Critical Infrastructure Protection in the water sector. Reference: SRP Cyber Resilience Pilot Proposal (34 pages).
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Warga-Design Fire-Tube Steam / Hot-Water Boiler
Patented design with a 25+ year operational history at Tucson Medical Center.
Eliminates the inherent drawbacks of traditional 2/3/4-pass wetback and dryback designs.
- Optimized furnace volume, including a pressurized door.
- Analytically optimized tube configuration for heat-transfer dynamics.
- Flue-gas velocity ranging for maximum heat-exchange efficiency, even at partial loads.
- 50% reduction in heating surface area.
- Significant reduction in acquisition, installation, operation, and maintenance costs.
Engagement inquiries
Alex Dely — Co-Founder · CTO · Principal Investigator · A.Dely@niketllc.com
Sal Dely — Co-Founder · Operations and Systems Lead · S.Dely@niketllc.com
