SUEZ and AquiSense partner on UV-C LED water disinfection for point-of-use laboratory applications

Nikkiso Group company AquiSense Technologies LLC of Erlanger, KY, USA (which designs and manufactures water, air and surface disinfection systems based on UV-C LEDs) has announced a unique product for SUEZ, which manufactures water purification solutions for the healthcare, laboratory and scientific research sectors. The partnership provides SUEZ with AquiSense’s patented ultraviolet light-emitting diode (UV-C LED) water treatment technology for water disinfection directly at the point of use in critical laboratory applications.

AquiSense and SUEZ have been cooperating for over a year in a joint development effort to deliver a laboratory water purification unit equipped with UV-C LED technology. The new product offers a high-level microbial disinfection barrier directly at the point of use. Unlike competing units, where pathogens can enter the upstream pipeline contaminating the system and future samples, the new UV LED disinfection acts as a barrier preventing contamination from entering the water purification system as a whole.

“This partnership signifies an adaptation of the UV LED technology in the more critical fields of healthcare and research,” says AquiSense’s European sales director Thomas Arnold.

“The new system developed by SUEZ eliminates recontamination problems by using LED lamps located within the dispense head, at the point of use,” says SUEZ’s innovation engineer John Higgs. “This is the first time such technology has been used in this way and brings a number of further important benefits.”

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