- 18 October 2006 -

Technology "removes 100% of contaminants from wastewater"

UK-based UVPS Environmental Solutions Ltd has developed a product which, it says, emoves 100% of contaminants from waste discharges such as produced water from an oil rig or industrial waste waters.

The technology uses an activated catalyst in the presence of ultraviolet light to remove and destroy a wide range of dissolved chemicals, pesticides, micro-organisms and other toxins, which have so far been difficult or prohibitively expensive to treat. The patented technology can provide solutions for the destruction of contaminants such as hydrocarbons in produced water, synthetic based fluids, waste production/processing chemicals, hydrocarbon and chemical spills, volatile organic compounds (VOC) and nitrogen oxides (NOx), the company says.

"Existing technologies remove approximately 92% of contaminants from produced water on an oil rig," says Kourosh Bassiti, chairman and CEO of UVPS. "The UVPS system is 100% effective and has applications in many industries, including the oil and gas, food and drinks, water treatment as well as healthcare. As a result we harbour high expectations that the technology will become accepted best practice for contaminant removal throughout the industrial fields."

www.uvps.co.uk