This advancement from AlterE Technologies is important to researchers in the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, algal, food, waste, and chemical processing industries. Large-scale SLS processing equipment is scheduled to be introduced by AlterE Technologies by June 2011. The SLS equipment uses minimal pressure differentials (low-energy) by using multiple belts to facilitate separation using adhesion and cohesion to contacted materials and liquids. Using lower energy for concentration or separation can protect valuable constituents otherwise destroyed by harsher separation technologies.
Ross Youngs, AlterE founder and CEO said: “Our SLS technology opens the door to a wide range of low-energy solid-liquid separation applications with industrial potential. We have developed the SLS Lab Model for researchers in all fields, allowing the identification of new methods and processes in the lab that lead to greater success in production environments.”
