Company - Naicker Scientific
Product/Service
- Classification
- Space Resources
- Category
- ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization)
- Fields
- Water
Beneficiation
- Status
- Concept
- First launch
- Not announced
SonoChem System
- SonoChem System by Naicker Scientific named winner for its innovative use of microwaves and ultrasound to generate millions of microbubbles in melted lunar ice, producing clean, drinkable water for astronauts.
- FRANK by father-and-sons team RedSpace and AqualunarPure from a team from Queen Mary University named runners up.
- The SonoChem System by Gloucestershire-based Naicker Scientific, led by Lolan Naicker, was named the winner by UK Space Agency’s Meganne Christian at a ceremony in Canada House in London’s Trafalgar Square, where the team was awarded the £150,000 first prize.
- The SonoChem System employs Naicker Scientific’s groundbreaking core technology to purify water derived from lunar ice. Harnessing powerful sound waves, it spontaneously forms millions of tiny bubbles in contaminated water. The extreme temperature and pressure created within each micro bubble generates free radicals (unstable atoms which are highly chemically reactive) which effectively removes contaminants.
Status Comment
Won the UK Space Agency-funded Aqualunar Challenge.
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