The Mexican company BiomiTech won the innovation award (Innovation Award) at the 2018 Pollution Expo in the city of Birmingham with a microalgae air filtration system that was introduced in United Kingdom and Europe for the first time.
The Mexican company also won the Latin American innovation prize "Latam Edge Awards" in London for its innovative proposal in air cleaning systems with a product that is one hundred percent Mexican.
The CEO and founder of BiomiTech, Carlos Monroy Sampieri , told Notimex that the company is a pioneer in this type of environmental solution, although other universities are developing prototypes as well.
"The equipment is designed to extract air from the environment and pass it through a microalgae culture that transforms it into oxygen as if it were trees," said Monroy Sampieri.
The biologist graduated from the Universidad Veracruzana indicated that he incorporated a solution that was friendly to the environment with a financially viable system.
"We have a laboratory that has five different species, one of which is used to capture pollution while the others are still subject to investigation. We are currently enhancing the species so that we may eventually introduce it in our products," he said.
These systems could be used in city halls, offices, warehouses, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agencies , transport centers (trains, buses, and coaches), airports, schools, universities, and health centers, among others.
The systems are being developed in the city of Puebla , designed to reduce carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide polluting particles to generate clean air and biomass through the process of photosynthesis.
The 2.0-meter-high Biourban 1.0 air purification system - which can be used indoors in schools, hotels, and restaurants - equals the capacity of 37 young eucalyptus trees to clean the air.
Meanwhile, the 4.0-meter-high Biourban 2.0 system that is designed for external and public spaces is equivalent to the air purification capacity of 400 trees .
BiomiTech does not seek to replace trees or integral solutions to combat environmental pollution, but offers an option to improve air quality and generate biomass as an energy source for the industry.
Its founder says that BiomiTech has broken paradigms in terms of design, application and viability that were achieved in three years from the first tests in the laboratory to the financing and marketing of its products.
The innovative company hopes to enter the European market through a branch in the United Kingdom and attract attention at international fairs such as the Clean Air Technology Expo in Birmingham , the most important in the United Kingdom for environmental cleaning solutions.
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