Clean, green and efficient technology to allow farmers increase aquaculture and agriculture yields sustainably, reducing need for fertilisers
Dr John Favier and Dr Mohammad Reza Ghaani, the co-founders of NanobOx, which promises to deliver the benefit of nanobubbles at greatly reduced cost.
NanobOx acts as a molecular filter increasing the concentration of oxygen in nanobubbles made from air by a factor of three“The energy cost of generating bubbles of any size in water is in inverse proportion to the size of bubbles produced; the smaller the bubbles, the higher the energy cost,” Favier says. “Standard methods of generating nanobubbles require kilowatts of power. Our technology only uses a few watts of battery power and can be operated off-grid using renewable energy.
Development of the technology has cost in the order of €500,000 to date, funded by grants and equity investment “Nanobubbles are so small that the oxygen gets easily into the plant roots,” he says. “The bubbles also attract nutrients and transport them into the plant roots, so plants grow faster with a higher yield. Our ambitions are global. We want to have a NanobOx on every irrigation line.”has supported the venture with a commercialisation grant while the company has also been through the Bord Iascaigh Mhara Aquatech Innovation Studio programme run by aquaculture accelerator, Hatch Blue.
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