Products
Toxicity Measurement «MB – Politox»
The large number of toxic agents in the water might require an equally large number of specific sensors for each toxic. However, WOLA’s solution is to grow a specific indicator microorganisms – sensor microorganism – whose metabolism will be affected in a higher or lower range depending on the quantity of the total toxicity in the water.
Analysing the variation in the microorganism metabolism function charts, the AI can give us a first approach about the kind of toxicity existing in the water, whereas the MB-Politox will keep samples of the analysed water which toxicity levels exceed the prefixed limits.
Innovative elements
POLYTOX-RES has the following key features:
- Automated real-time monitoring of the overall toxicity present in water.
- Short time (90 minutes) analysis at low operational costs.
- Online Control Interface: Access via mobile phone, website, tablet.
- Early Warning – above parameter limits- samples capture for a posterior analysis in a laboratory.
- Self-cleaning device.
- Regeneration of the sensor microorganism after each analysis
Applications
POLYTOX-RES is a powerful surveillance tool for any type of water pollution, either by organic or inorganic, with particular application in wastewater treatment plants, industry and environmental protection areas, giving early alarms to allow quick reaction in the event of water spills.
- Wastewater treatment plants (WWTP)
- Pollutant industries
- Fish farms
- Protected areas
OPTIMIZE YOUR FISH FARM:
MONITORING BIOCHEMICAL – MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS IN “REAL TIME”
- MB-BOD
- POLITOX-RES
Online Monitoring of essential parameters to know an optimize metabolic and microbiological processes in applications such as: Biofermenters, Fish farms, Obtaining metabolic bio-products, Bioreactors, Decontamination processes, Microbial Counting, Concentration of toxic effects, etc.
EUTROPHICATION PROCESS
Don’t take a risk in your fish farm: monitoring of Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD). Quantify the Total Water Toxicity and the concentration of aerobic living microorganisms in «real time» in your Fish-Farm and other water uses.
“Eutrophication is an enrichment of water by nutrient salts that causes structural changes to the ecosystem such as: increased production of algae and aquatic plants, depletion of fish species, general deterioration of water quality and other effects that reduce and preclude use” by the OECD
Software
Water eutrophication has to be monitored to control and protect the functional balance that guarantees a process (Fish-farms, rivers, wetlands, reservoirs, etc.) The information provided by the three analytical biosensors developed by WOLA makes it possible to monitor with efficacy the eutrophication.
CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION OF THE WATER USE – WWTW
A SOFTWARE DEVELOPPED SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS BIOSENSOR ALLOWS A REAL TIME MONITORING OF THE RESULTS.
You can know the contamination due to organic matter in water, and optimize the treatment process of your Waste Water Treatment Works (WWTW), in order to obtain the best results.
With our MB-BOD water samples at an inlet (red) and outlet (blue) of a waste water treatment plant can be monitored.
GREENHOUSE EARLY WARNING SERVICE
MONITORING & WATER USE OPTIMIZATION
Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning algorithms for:
- Monitoring Water Quality
- Damage detection
- Detection of algae growth
- Early warning
- Reduction in operational costs
- Cost reduction in avoiding yield failure
Specific SOFTWARE and Hardware
Automatic devices for measure and monitor the Biological Oxygen Demand (MB-BOD), the concentration of aerobic living microorganisms (Biocounter) and Total Toxicity (POLITOX-RES) contained in waters.
Online Monitoring of the water quality from different sources ; WWTPs, industries, rivers, reservoirs, wells, lagoons etc. to be use safely in agricultural irrigation
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
RECYCLING GREY WATERS
STEP 1
Waste water from wash hand basins, showers, dishwashers and washing machines is collected and treated.
STEP 2
Recycled grey water can be used among other applications to wash cars, irrigate, even to flush toilets or for laundry use, etc
RESIDUAL ENERGY
REDUCTION OF COSTS
Improvement of maintenance costs through the monitorization
REDUCTION OF ELECTRICITY
Used by aerobic bioreactors in waste water treatment works using our MB-BOD biosensor. Control and optimization of water purification processes in bioreactors Stations.
DEVELOPMENT OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
Low cost production of automated bioreactors for energy production through biomass fermentation.
ENERGY SAVING
Re-use of water and optimization of used water in industrial processes.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
The POLYTOX-RES software, developed by BIOSENSORES shows accurately and in real time the water contamination level through the breathing-measurement response of the microorganisms, showing how the toxic is affecting to their different metabolic route.
BIOSENSORES´S OWN-DESIGNED SOFTWARE
| Measuring principle | Respirometry |
| Sensor | Dissolved oxygen sensor |
| Sensor response time | 3 – 7 sec |
| Measuring range | 10 – 1.000 mg/L |
| Coefficient of variation of the signal | < 3% |
| Measuring temperature | 25 ºC |
| Maximum temperature | 50º C |
| Type of calibration | Double in each cycle of analysis |
| Nutrient consumption | 15 ml/cycle |
| Consumption of the wash solution | 15 ml/cycle |
| Voltage | 220V |
| Power supply | 180 W |
MB-POLITOX VS CURRENT TECHNOLOGIES
| POLITOX- RES | Current Technology | |
| Time of analysis | 60 minutes | 120 minutes |
| Type of analysis | Automatic | Manual |
| Place of analysis | On site | Laboratory |
| Online monitoring | Yes | Not possible |
| Pollutant episodes identification | – | – |
| Cost of analysis | 1€ | 36€ |
| Toxic water control | – | – |
| Reliability | ++ | ++ |
| Feedback of results | Yes | No |