SCFI Strengthens Offering with Air Products Partnership

SCFI (Ireland) have recently announced a partnership with Air Products in order to streamline their customer offerings and helping to further develop opportunities for their AquaCritox, the environmentally sustainable sludge and wet industrial waste destruction technology.

This partnership is seen as a way to offer end users of the AquaCitrox all the components required to deliver 99.99%+ organic wet waste destruction on site in a single-step. This will also mark the start of a joint global marketing initiative, as AquaCritox joins Air Products’ portfolio of atmospheric, process and speciality gases, performance materials and technology.

AquaCitrox has been developed to offer a sustainable solution to treatment of wet wastes. By oxidising the organic materials found in the wet waste and converting them to CO2, nitrogen and clean water, the advanced critical water oxidation (SCWO) will completely destruct wet waste. This method is environmentally friendly but also cost-effective and can also be used to create green energy.

This new partnership means Air Products will act as SCRI's supplier to major markets for all oxygen equipment used during the SCWO process (from pumps to liquid storage tanks), as well as providing the oxygen supply needed to reduce the Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) of waste.

SCFI chief operating officer David Kerr explains: “We are delighted to announce our latest alliance with Air Products. By working together we can offer end users a full package solution that delivers seamless destruction of organic wet waste on site as an alternative to incineration. Not only does AquaCritox provide a cost-effective and efficient alternative to this and other contentious and costly disposal methods available today (such as landfill and land spreading), it also does so in an environmentally friendly and sustainable way.”

The addition of AquaCritox to the Air Products portfolio will also help drive commercialisation on a global scale. Marketing support from Air Products will include lead generation activity, direct marketing initiatives and events.

Karolien Vanvooren-Hulsbosch, Water and Industrial Cryo Segment Manager Europe at Air Products says: “At Air Products we are committed to developing technologies to service the energy markets of the future. We recognise the huge potential AquaCritox has to revolutionise the treatment and disposal of wet wastes globally, as a secure and sustainable alternative to traditional practices. We look forward to working closely with the SCFI team to develop suitable business opportunities across the wet waste treatment industry and for our customers.”