The science behind the technology

AOP via catalysis is an emerging transformative technology and the leading solution to the world’s aqueous organic contamination problem. Exponentially more effective than UV disinfection (photolysis).   

Our reactor instigates a series of catalytic reduction reactions using multiple stable catalysts and various forms of energy. Energy activates the catalysts in water and excites electrons in the valence band of a particle causing it to jump from the valence band (VB) of a semiconductor material to the empty conduction band (CB), generating a negatively charged electron (ecb-) and a positively charged (hvb+) hole or vacancy.   These ecb-/ hvb+ species are also referred to as charge carriers. The electron in water becomes an aqueous electron which is reactive and the positively charged holes themselves have extremely high reduction potential. These pairs react with other molecules present in the water to build radicals known as Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) such as OH radicals with an extremely high oxidation potential. The radicals then cleave through carbon bonds of organic contaminants breaking them down into CO2 and H2O.