Oxyle and Waterleau join forces in the fight against PFAS contamination

Partnership agreement signed for the sustainable removal of PFAS from the environment

21-May-2024 - Oxyle, the Swiss pioneering water treatment startup, and Waterleau announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). This MoU marks a pivotal moment in the global effort to combat micropollutants in water resources. Joining forces for the complete elimination of PFAS The strategic ...

PFAS contaminated water becomes clean again

Promising and environmentally friendly process developed

25-Jul-2023 - There are many man-made environmental pollutants. One of the most serious is pollution with the harmful perpetual chemical PFAS, which can be found in many soils and waters and thus also in our food. Although it is possible to remove it, it is costly and produces hazardous waste. Now, researchers ...

Variolytics receives seven-figure seed funding for climate-neutral wastewater treatment plants

Proprietary measurement technology and AI-based process control to avoid greenhouse gases in wastewater treatment

13-Dec-2022 - Germany’s almost 10,000 municipal wastewater treatment plants consume around 4,400 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity per year, which makes them one of the largest electricity consumers. This is equivalent to the electricity needs of 900,000 four-person households. Moreover, the greenhouse gases ...

Recycle high-tech waste biologically

Innovative biotechnological process extracts gallium from industrial wastewater

18-Mar-2021 - Gallium is a rare metal, but it is widely used in the high-tech industry. This extreme contrast makes recycling indispensable. However, current recycling processes are costly and chemically polluted. Biotechnological approaches, therefore, rely on peptides, as they are able to bind metallic ...

Textile dyeing without effluent

Reverse osmosis and ion exchange go hand in hand

14-Feb-2017 - Bleaching and dyeing textile fibers and fabrics without causing any environmental pollution through effluent may sound too good to be true. And yet “minimal liquid discharge” (MLD) and “zero liquid discharge” (ZLD) – i.e. the minimization or complete avoidance of liquid waste – are already a ...

Here comes the long-sought-after iron-munching microbe

26-Oct-2016 - A microbe that ‘eats’ both methane and iron: microbiologists have long suspected its existence, but were not able to find it - until now. Researchers at Radboud University and the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen discovered a microorganism that couples the reduction of iron ...

akvola Technologies Secures Series A Financing Round

08-Aug-2016 - akvola Technologies, a water technology company providing solutions for the removal of oils and suspended solids from hard-to-treat industrial effluents, has announced the completion of its Series A financing round. In addition to the private investors and industry experts Bruno Steis (ex-CEO of ...

BASF increases prices on Zetag, Magnafloc and Alcomer product ranges

17-May-2010 - BASF increases prices globally for the following product ranges: - Zetag and Magnafloc flocculants in the range of 8-11% - Zetag and Magnafloc coagulants in the range of 20-30% - Alcomer oilfield chemicals in the range of 10-15% The price adjustment reflects the restricted access to key raw ...

Ozone detection

15-Jan-2010 - Researchers in Freiburg have developed a highly-sensitive, miniaturized mobile ozone sensor which can be used not only in air, but also in water and in the vicinity of explosive gases. The Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF in Freiburg is developing improved chemical ...