OXY
First Place in Sustainable Innovation EXPOMIN 2025
The developed technology enables the controlled generation of atomic oxygen in situ. This highly reactive species can degrade organic and inorganic compounds without the need for additional chemicals and does not produce waste that is hazardous to the environment or human health.
Unlimited Applications:
Copper is obtained from tailings.
Increased oxidation of chalcopyrite allows approximately 20% of the copper to be liberated.
More than 3% additional copper is recovered in leaching processes.
Contaminated water is treated for reuse.
Cost reduction by avoiding the need for international shipments of processes that can be solved locally.
Mining
Disinfect large volumes of contaminated water without using chemicals.
It improves the quality of treated water and avoids the generation of hazardous waste or difficult-to-treat sludge.
It enables the safe reuse of treated water for agricultural, gardening and industrial irrigation purposes.
It degrades complex molecules such as antibiotics, hydrocarbons and pesticides.
It reduces operating costs and is highly scalable, as it can easily be integrated into existing infrastructures to increase capacity and performance.
It eliminates unwanted odours, flavours and colours.
It disinfects without creating bacterial resistance.
It transforms iron, manganese and arsenic, among others.
into easy-to-remove compounds.
Waters
It breaks down hydrocarbon molecules, which are made up of hydrogen and carbon atoms with single and double bonds.
It decreases the TON (total odour number), which is a measure of the concentration of an odorous substance in a water sample.
It is a way of quantifying odour.
It can be used to clean ponds, floors, pipes and ducts, and for decontamination processes.
Hydrocarbons
It disinfects water and surfaces safely and efficiently.
It eliminates microorganisms without generating toxic by-products, guaranteeing a clean and safe environment during production processes.
It eliminates microorganisms such as Burkholderia, Listeria, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas.
This benefits the pharmaceutical and food industries.
It eliminates biofilm.