Biomitech
The super powers of microalgae in the service of depollution
Franck Schenaerts
Carlos Monroy Sampieri
The deployment of air pollution control solutions using a breakthrough technology based on the principle of photosynthesis by micro-algae.
High-tech biomimicry
Columns and systems containing millions of microalgae capable of purifying the air as well as a forest, this is the new product developed by BIOMITECH. This cleantech start-up from Aix in the South of France, co-founded by Mexican biologist Carlos Monroy Sampieri, winner of the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Innovator Under 35 Award, and Franck Schenaerts, an expert in the implementation of new European products with high environmental value, is developing bioreactors made of microalgae. As tiny as they are, these organisms have the immense power to transform part of the carbon dioxide and pollutants (SO², NOx, PM2.5&10…) emitted by cars, which they then restore, thanks to the fabulous process of photosynthesis, into oxygen.
These intelligent carbon sinks, the result of a disruptive innovation based on the principle of biomimicry, are capable of treating the smoke emitted and harmful particles. In addition to pollution control, BIOMITECH also plans to take part in a decarbonization and circular economy approach through the transformation of biomass to produce bio-hydrogen and biogas. A first BioUrban with demonstrative value will soon be installed in the south of France in a highly polluted urban area.
“We create biomass and oxygen in order to depollute and decarbonize thanks to microalgae. The principle is simple, but complex to set up, we use bioremediation, that is to say the decomposition of molecules thanks to specific microalgae. Some of them have an appetite for CO2, others for sulfur or other pollutants.”
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