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 EnviroScrub's Patent-Pending Sorbents Remove Arsenic from Drinking Water 1 March, 2004 Minneapolis, Minnesota EnviroScrub Technologies Corporation ("EnviroScrub") has conducted preliminary water filtration tests usings its newly developed patent-pending, proprietary sorbents. Initial results show that these sorbents removed greater than 95% of Arsenic from samples of drinking water. The newly developed sorbents reduced levels of Arsenic in the water samples from 96 parts per billion (ppb) down to below 4 ppb. EnviroScrub's newly developed sorbents not only remove Arsenic in its +5 valence state, but also in the more difficult +3 valence state in a single step, while competing techonologies typically require a two-step process for the removal of +3 Arsenic. Arsenic is a serious health hazard which naturally occurs in ground water and surface water in the United States and around the world at levels that theaten human health. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has stated that Arsenic in drinking water causes cancer in humans. In fact, Arsenic is responsible for the development of liver, bladder, skin, and kidney cancer and the long-term intake of small doses of inorganic arsenic compounds is a factor in many other diseases. In the western United States in particular, there are many large metropolitan areas with unacceptably high levels of Arsenic in the drinking water. The EPA is now promulgating regulations that require municipalities to lower Arsenic lvels in drinking water from the current allowed level of 50 ppb to 10 ppb by January, 2006. "We are very excited by these test results. The ability of these newly developed sorbents to remove Arsenic from drinking water is potentially both a great boon to the health of Americans and a large market opportunity in commercial water filtration for EnviroScrub," said EnviroScrub's Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Charles Hammel. In the United States, the commercial water filtration market consists of two segements: the industrial and household water filtration markets. The worldwide industrial water filtration market, according to the General Electric Company, is $35 billion in size and is growing at 8% annually. In addition, it has been estimated that the US household water filtration market is $500 million in size and is growing at 10% annually. EnviroScrub plans to explore strategic relationships with market leaders in household filtration, since their point-of-use filters (eg., at faucet, under sink, in refrigerator) do not remove Arsenic from drinking water. In view of these market dynamics combined with the heightened consumer concern about water safety, the low penetration of the household water filtration market, and the relative efficacy and economy of EnviroScrub's patent-pending technology, EnviroScrub believes that the commercial water filtration market presents a highly attractive market opportunity for the company. EnviroScrub, a privately-held deployment-stage company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, licenses its patented and proprietary dry Pahlman™ Process NOx / SOx / Hg / PM 2.5 / HCl / H2S scrubbing technology to power generation and industrial plants worldwide. EnviroScrub plans to compete in the multi-billion dollar U.S. Emissions Reduction Technology market with its first commercial-scale projects in 2004. For more information, contact: EnviroScrub Technologies Corporation Back to News |
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