Public Funding for AQUA21 Limited

This project is to develop a method of growing food crops based on a novel and soilless aeroponics system. It will allow crops to grow in long, low height, clean pest and pathogen-free enclosures using day light. It will also allow the production of beneficial mycorrhizal inoculants in axenic root organ cultures. The project will deliver novel cultivation technology that is far more environmentally benign than conventional farming, cut water consumption and radically reduce use of chemicals and fossil fuel energy.

Dissolved ozone is one of the most effective disinfectants available. The measurement of dissolved ozone is however either costly or only available offline. The capital cost of measurement currently outweighs the cost of ozone production. If an online, real-time system of measurement was available, the benefits of ozone disinfection would be come available at much lower cost and therefore could be applied much more widely. Aqua21 have developed a low cost, low carbon ozone generator and are now exploring the potential for associated sensor technology with commiserate qualities for application to its core technology in progressing towards commercialisationand consistent with its approach to tackling the energy/carbon/water nexus.

Recognising the water/energy/carbon nexus, Aqua21 will explore the opportunity to dramatically reduce carbon generation and costs for building operators through the introduction of its new low power ozone disinfection treatment technology across a range of building types.