KinetiRO Sim is a wastewater plant designer and simulator that operates in a web browser. Its design equations are published and cited to their sources. KinetiRO sells no equipment and receives no payment from any equipment supplier.
KinetiRO is a software company with one product, KinetiRO Sim.
The company is founder-led and small. In place of a headcount it states its capacity: five concurrent engagements. When that capacity is committed, an enquiry is told so and given a date.
No design liability
KinetiRO supplies the tool and not the resulting design. No output of this software constitutes a design issued by KinetiRO, and no output carries the professional responsibility of any engineer other than the engineer who produced it. This is not a limitation appended to the licence terms; it is the definition of the company. A simulator is an instrument, and responsibility for its application rests with the engineer operating it.
Licence termsNo diagnostics, sampling or laboratory work. KinetiRO does not characterise influent. Where an influent characterisation is required before the software can be applied, it must be obtained from a laboratory and a qualified engineer.
Eduardo Saucedo, B.S. Environmental Engineering, founded KinetiRO and wrote KinetiRO Sim. His prior work was the design of water and wastewater treatment systems for the Mexican market, first at Domos Agua / Hydrazul, part of Gentor, and subsequently at Rotoplas Servicios de Agua.
He holds a cédula profesional. The registration number is not published; it is available on request.
The sequence is material. KinetiRO Sim was not written by a software company that subsequently engaged a process consultant to review it. It was written by an engineer who had performed the same sizing calculations manually, in spreadsheets, for operating plants, and who had established which parameters govern a design and which are seldom examined. Three consequences are visible in the software: the measured TKN reaches the activated sludge model, aerobic sludge age is reported separately from total sludge age, and membrane arrays are solved element by element rather than by a fixed rejection percentage. Each addresses a condition encountered on a real project.
The founder's stated objective for the company is wider availability of optimised treatment design. Demand for specialised treatment represents a significant environmental risk, and as discharge regulation becomes more restrictive, treatment requires greater optimisation rather than greater installed capacity. The intent is to make a rigorous design method available to industrial operators and to municipalities, including those without the resources to commission a consultant to assess an existing plant.
KinetiRO is operated as a business. Pricing is not currently published: KinetiRO Sim is in beta, and a price will be published before the beta concludes. No quotation process applies.
The free plan calculates without limit, on the basis that an operator or a student verifying a single figure should not incur a charge. A paid plan exists because an organisation issuing a document for which it is accountable has different requirements.
Each exclusion below is deliberate.
Three characteristics are uncommon in a company of this size.
Performed equation by equation against Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Resource Recovery, Metcalf & Eddy, 5th edition, and IWA Scientific and Technical Report No. 9. It records twelve defects identified in KinetiRO's own code and three items assessed as worth completing and not yet completed.
Verification recordThe core executes in the browser: a flowsheet is solved on the machine, never on a server. The project is stored on KinetiRO's server, under the account, encrypted so that KinetiRO cannot read the design unless the user shares it. What KinetiRO can see on the server is stated on the product page.
Calculation methodThe container uses a standard construction rather than a proprietary one, documented together with an explicit statement of what it does not protect against. Sealing is not yet available.
Sealed file specificationThe name combines kinetics and reverse osmosis: the activated sludge model and the membrane transport model, which are the two principal calculations the software performs. It is the only coined term the company uses.
KinetiRO and KinetiRO Sim are unregistered marks. No application has been filed, and no registration symbol is used.
