GreenCentre Canada has effectively brokered a licensing agreement with Veolia Water Technologies for a water purification technology, moving the technology from the university setting to real-world applications. This deal is part of GreenCentre’s ongoing mandate to help the academic community commercialize its chemistry technologies.
This newly licensed technology was originally developed by Carleton University professor Banu Örmeci and offers a fast and simple way to measure the polymer flocculent concentration in wastewater streams in real time. Veolia Water Technologies has been developing a process to scale up the technology and use it in real-world water purification processes.
“This is an excellent example of how GreenCentre works with its industrial partners to commercialize innovative Canadian academic chemistry technologies,” said Pete Pigott, executive director of GreenCentre Canada. “Veolia is a global leader in water treatment, and we are certainly pleased to enable them with great technologies from Canadian universities.”
Large-scale water purification for municipal and industrial waste streams is done in several steps—one of which is called “flocculation,” in which a polymer material is added to the waste stream. The water industry will benefit from technology that will accurately determine the amount of flocculent in a waste stream at any point. This way, one could adjust its concentration to optimize the cleaning of the water.
Source: GreenCentre Canada
