Nominees Aquatech Innovation Awards 2023
Aclarity Octa™
Company: Aclarity
Category: Innovation not to market yet (for products not yet commercially launched)
Introduction date: 01/12/2023
Product description: Aclarity tackles "forever chemicals" that harm humans, animals, and the environment. Octa™ PFAS system disrupts the current, harmful PFAS removal and disposal cycle. Traditional approaches lead to concentrated PFAS in landfills, incinerators, and wells, re-polluting air, soil, and water. Octa™ uses electricity to break PFAS bonds and end PFAS for good.
Blue Energy
Company: REDstack B.V.
Category: Innovation not to market yet (for products not yet commercially launched)
Introduction date: 01/01/2023
Product description: Technology and Key-Equipment to harvest sustainable energy out of contacting flows of fresh water and salt water. Where the river flows into the sea, Blue Energy power can be harvested in the Electro-Membrane-Stacks.
ClipR
Company: Factorylab b.v.
Category: Water Supply (including Drinking Water, Clean Water, Point of use/Point of Entry)
Introduction date: 21/04/2022
Product description: LoRaWAN clip-on temperature sensor, 100% wireless. Integrated into one product. Easily clips on any metal piping within seconds. Standard clip sizes: Ø 12, 15, 22 and 28 mm. Measures the outside temperature of all sorts of metal piping regardless what fluid goes through. With add-on ClipR measures 3 temperatures at once, making it ideal for TMV-monitoring. Can also be used for automatic flushing.
EDBM ElectroMembrane Stack
Company: REDstack B.V.
Category: Wastewater treatment
Introduction date: 01/01/2023
Product description: REDstack has developed a platform technology for industrially produced, leak-free and energy-efficient ElectroMembrane Stacks with bipolar membranes. These stacks, called REDstack EDBM ElectroMembrane Stacks, can be used for a wide variety of resource recovery applications, such as carbon capture, ammonia recovery from waste streams, and lithium recovery.
Flowmaster MK2 PFT and Aquavault
Company: TSI Flowmeters Ltd
Category: Water Supply (including Drinking Water, Clean Water, Point of use/Point of Entry)
Introduction date: 01/01/2022
Product description: The Flowmaster PFT is an electromagnetic all-in-one flow, pressure, and turbidity meter with built-in data capture and analysis. It improves the information captured in terms of quality and consistency. It allows for efficient transfer of data between site and office-based teams. Understanding the effectiveness of cleaning enables you to identify any necessary next steps or process changes.
GOgen
Company: HPNow
Category: Green chemicals for water technology
Introduction date: 01/09/2023
Product description: GOgen introduces a first-of-its kind sustainable solution for the generation of a Green Oxidant (GO) directly on-site, on-demand. GOgen is targeting a wide range of water treatment applications including cooling and process water treatment, advanced oxidation processes, and odor control among others.
IDEXX Tecta
Company: IDEXX Water
Category: Transport and process & control
Introduction date: 01/11/2022
Product description: IDEXX Tecta® is a complete self-contained automated microbiology system for detecting total coliforms, E. coli and enterococci. IDEXX Tecta is compatible with a range of matrices. Results are sent anytime, anywhere by email – with positive results available within hours. www.idexx.com/tecta.
Inline Pipeline Inspection Dashboard
Company: Acquaint
Category: Transport and process & control
Introduction date: 20/02/2023
Product description: It’s a dynamic GIS-map in which the pipeline is centred and it visualizes several anomalies, healthy wall thickness, ovality, deformation, joint angular displacement and joint width of water pipelines or rising mains. Making investment decisions easier and more accessible and changing the way inspection data is going to be received and used by water utilities all over the world.
LG Sonic Phosphate Sensor
Company: LG Sonic
Category: Water Supply (including Drinking Water, Clean Water, Point of use/Point of Entry)
Introduction date: 01/11/2022
Product description: LG Sonic’s Phosphate Sensor offers proactive monitoring capabilities, enabling you to detect and address changes in phosphate levels in real-time and identify nutrient pollution sources at different depths. With our cutting-edge technology, you can take a preventative approach to algae blooms and water quality management to ensure the health of your water resources.
NEAT
Company: Sudoc
Category: Green chemicals for water technology
Introduction date: 15/05/2023
Product description: NEAT is utilizing patented, TAML catalysts to improve the efficiency of industrial oxidation processes. By adding 1 mg per liter of NEAT to an existing oxidation system, contact time can be reduced by 25-75% depending on oxidation method and contaminant of concern. Less contact time subsequently yields less capital costs and less energy consumption to accomplish the same oxidative performance.
Orb’s Ecosystem
Company: Interius Solutions GmbH
Category: Transport and process & control
Introduction date: 01/12/2022
Product description: Orb’s Platform equips water treatment installations with real-time biological monitoring for operators to act on process or contamination events faster than ever. This revolutionary monitoring platform provides multiparametric trends, including: bio-load, water matrix changes. The result is improved public safety, lowered operational risks and costs through high frequency sampling data.
Oxyle Catalyst
Company: Oxyle AG
Category: Wastewater treatment
Introduction date: 01/11/2023
Product description: We have developed a unique catalyst technology that offers complete removal and real-time monitoring of a wide range of micropollutants, including PFAS, in a cost-effective and sustainable manner. Using our novel approach, pollutants are completely and truly eliminated as means of destruction, instead of transferring them to a secondary phase as with filtration or absorption.
RPF EFC Technology
Company: Cool Separations
Category: Wastewater treatment
Introduction date: 01/01/2023
Product description: COOL Separations has successfully commercialized the Eutectic Freeze Crystallization (EFC) technology, which recovers high purity chemicals from waste streams. It can be applied to a wide range of market sectors, such as Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Mining and Agriculture - at a fraction of the cost and energy use of most current options and without additives.
Zero.B
Company: Sanipur SpA
Category: Green chemicals for water technology
Introduction date: 01/07/2022
Product description: Zero.B is an innovative bio-based, eco-friendly technology that allows an effective biofilm removal action and a subsequent deep sanitation of water distribution systems. It is thus the ideal solution for all those systems where microbial water quality is crucial. Thanks to its formulation, it conciliates high performance, material compatibility, reduced environmental impact and user safety.