OriginClear Inc., a US-based provider of water treatment solutions has announced that its licensee in Spain, Depuporc S.L., has signed a commercial contract to supply complete mobile treatment systems to pig farm operators. The units have a daily treatment capacity of 120 m3. Depuporc intends to integrate OriginClear’s breakthrough Electro Water Separation with Advanced Oxidation (EWS:AOx) technology in the systems it deploys.
According to a statement, the contract outlines orders beginning with 12 machines in the first year, tripling to 36 units by the third year. Between component sales and royalties, OriginClear believes that this project will generate about US$500 000 in the first year, also tripling by year three.
We licensed the OriginClear technology to optimize and improve the patented manure treatment process that we have developed over the past years. We did several tests with various animal farming effluents and this confirmed our opinion of EWS:AOx. We are extremely happy to see that our efforts are now materializing into commercial results, said Francisco Longares, CEO of Depuporc.
OriginClear’s EWS:AOx will form the core of a complete mobile system designed and built by Depuporc in Spain. Large solids will be removed before EWS:AOx with a polishing stage afterwards, to ensure discharge water quality will meet stringent European Union (EU) water quality standards.
The Spanish market is undoubtedly huge and as such, a first commercial implementation has tremendous value to us. In addition, a success there will set an example for other major markets in the animal effluent industry, namely the US and China, where we are already present and active, said Jean-Louis “JL” Kindler, President of OriginClear Technologies.
With over 28 million pigs, Spain is now the world’s third-largest pork meat exporter after China and the U.S. Furthermore, increased industrialization has seen the average number of animals per farm nearly quadruple, from 122 to 467, in less than 15 years. This also concentrates the production of manure in Spain, which is currently estimated at 62 million m3 annually.
