Other Solvent Inspiration
Other Solvent Inspiration
A world of more ecologically, economically sustainable fluids awaits Axbold’s superior efficiency, in-situ mobility and operational durability. What solution will you inspire?
- Industrial process engineers
- Utility and district operators
- Environmental restoration programs
- Marine and offshore operators
- Research and pilot teams
- Remote and off-grid site managers
The problem
The Shape Of The Problem
Most gas-into-liquid problems reduce to the same three numbers: how much gas dissolves, how long it stays dissolved, and what it costs to keep putting it back. Conventional transfer loses the majority of delivered gas to atmosphere within seconds, which is why the energy line, not the process, usually sets the ceiling. Axbold transfers 90% of 171.9 LPM (45.4 GPM) into the fluid on 2.7 kWh.
Aquaculture and agriculture, water treatment, remediation and mitigation, mining process water and wastewater sterilization are simply the solution areas where that problem is already well documented. The physics does not recognize the distinction. If a process depends on how much oxygen, ozone or other gas is in contact with a liquid, and for how long, it belongs to the same problem class as all of them.
Two further constraints follow from the first. Capital gets committed to plant that cannot follow the problem when it moves, and once that plant exists the maintenance interval, rather than the process, decides how often the operation is available. Neither constraint is chemistry. Both are consequences of the machine chosen to deliver it, which is why both can be designed out rather than managed around.
- Dissolved gas that leaves solution in seconds rather than staying available to the process
- Transfer efficiency, not the process, setting the energy bill
- Fixed infrastructure that cannot be relocated when the problem moves, where an 82 pound platform can be
- Permitting, space and civil work required before any treatment begins
- Maintenance intervals that dictate process availability
- Characterization and test scoping available independently of a program
How it works
Efficiency, Mobility And Durability
The Axbold Guardian infuses ultra fine bubbles of oxygen, ozone and/or other gas into seawater, freshwater and/or other liquid. Gas selection is a configuration choice rather than a different machine, so the fluid and the process requirement decide the duty rather than the purchase. The receiving liquid does not have to be water in the municipal sense.
Efficiency is the first lever. Gas throughput is 171.9 LPM (45.4 GPM) at 90% mass transfer into the fluid. The platform operates on 2.7 kWh. Published efficiency is 3,437 gas liters per kWh (908 gas gallons per kWh). Against conventional nanobubble units that is 72% greater aeration and 79% less energy, and oxygen nanobubbles improve oxygen transfer efficiency by 80,000 times.
Mobility and durability are the other two. The platform is small enough to be carried to the fluid rather than plumbed to it, so floating configurations enable aeration, oxidation and other gas-into-liquid facilities in situ rather than in built plant. Where the vessel or the setting rules out a floating deployment, the same machine runs submersible, air-cooled or in-line.
- 222 g/min air, 245 g/min oxygen or 368 g/min ozone, the latter two subject to generation capability
- 90% mass transfer into the fluid at 171.9 LPM (45.4 GPM)
- 220 million nanobubbles per mL at 76 nm average, NanoSight nanoparticle tracking analysis
- Charged, pressurized bubbles that can stay in solution for months
- Floats, with submersible, air-cooled and in-line options available
- Two moving parts in IP68 Grade 316 stainless steel, and 90% less servicing time than conventional nanobubble units
3,437
Gas Liters Per kWh
908 gas gallons per kWh
80,000x
Oxygen Transfer Efficiency
Improvement from oxygen nanobubbles
2.7 kWh
Energy Consumption
79% less than conventional nanobubble units
82 lb
System Weight
Floats; roughly 37 by 12 by 8 inches
What changes
Where It Goes Next
The practical test for a new application is short. Name the gas, name the liquid, and establish what dissolved concentration the process actually needs to hold, and for how long. From there the questions are ordinary engineering: volume, temperature, competing demand, and how the fluid is contained.
An unproven application becomes a measured one through the program itself. Which program shape fits follows from how the fluid problem behaves and who has to own the hardware: an active problem is scoped with an end date, a recurring one has to run continuously to be worth anything, and an operator that needs the asset on its own balance sheet changes the structure rather than the treatment. Because the system deploys in situ, evaluating an application costs less in permitting, equipment and space than building to find out.
A world of more ecologically, economically sustainable fluids awaits Axbold's superior efficiency, in-situ mobility and operational durability. What solution will you inspire?
- Solution consulting, testing and data services built into every program
- Run one vessel, basin or tank first, then scale on measured results
- Submersible, air-cooled and in-line configurations for non-floating contexts
- Single and three-phase support at 120/240V; can be powered by solar panels
- Quarterly checkup of one hour at most, 10 year useful life
- Emergent, Proactive and Embedded program structures
Common questions
Does the liquid have to be water?
The equipment is specified for seawater, freshwater and/or other liquid, so water is the documented case rather than the only one. A characterization measures what actually varies between fluids: temperature, viscosity, competing demand, and the dissolved concentration the process needs to hold. What is fixed is the platform. It is rated at 171.9 LPM (45.4 GPM) of gas at 90% mass transfer into the fluid, produces 220 million nanobubbles per mL at an average of 76 nm, and is built in IP68 Grade 316 stainless steel. Testing and data services are built into every program and can also be procured independently.
Can it run a gas other than oxygen or ozone?
The platform is rated at 171.9 LPM (45.4 GPM) of gas covering air, oxygen, ozone and others, at 90% mass transfer into the fluid. By mass, published throughputs are 222 grams per minute of air, 245 grams per minute of oxygen and 368 grams per minute of ozone, with the latter two subject to generation capability. Gas choice is a configuration decision on the same equipment.
Our site has no plant, no grid and no room. Is that disqualifying?
That is closer to the design case than the exception. The unit is about 82 pounds, roughly 37 by 12 by 8 inches, floats, is built to IP68 in Grade 316 stainless steel, and operates on 2.7 kWh on single or three-phase 120/240V. It can be powered by solar panels, and in-situ deployment needs less permitting, equipment and space than a fixed installation.
How do we evaluate an application Axbold has not run before?
By measurement. Solution consulting, testing and data services are built into Axbold water security programs, and those services can also be procured independently. The sequence is to characterize the fluid, define the dissolved gas target, run the system in place and measure against it. Contact us with the gas, the liquid and the process requirement, and the scope follows from there.
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Other water, same capability
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Tell us the water body, the contaminant or target, the volume and what you have already tried. That is enough for a useful first answer.