Thousands of hazardous micropollutants are identified in waters. Residuals of human and veterinary drugs, antibiotics, hormones, pesticides, herbicides, and plastics can be found in surface and drinking water as well. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that adverse neurophysiological or genotoxic phenomena have been linked to certain groups of micropollutants, which may have mutagenic and/or carcinogenic effects. Almost 90% of human cancer is caused by toxic materials in the food, water, and air. Micropollutants can also damage the endocrine system and impair human reproduction.

CLEAREADY^TM solution

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Although a lot of research aimed at reducing the concentrations of drug residues in water, most of elaborated novel treatment processes can be characterized by high maintenance cost including the production and disposal of the adsorbents.

That is why CLEAREADY^TM focuses on new cost-effective and green alternatives. Our innovative approach focuses on natural adsorbents.

The team of CLEAREADY tested the adsorption capacity of different kinds of materials, and elaborated a new technology for the removal of hazardous micropollutants. The developed method seems to be suitable for cost-effective pharmaceutical active compounds removal. Moreover, saturated adsorbents can be treated and disposed by easy and cost-effective ways.

Product: CLEAREADY^TM MASS

Micropollutants Adsorbent System

The CLEAREADY^TM MASS works as an accelerated ecological machine. As our laboratory has confirmed that different, prepared green waste mixtures as bioadsorbents remove the hazardous micropollutants cost-effectively by up to 90%.

CLEAREADY^TM MASS consists of containers with pumps for water circulation and transfer, and replaceable filtration cartridges are inserted inside the blocks.

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CLEAREADY^TM MASS for the removal of hazardous micropollutants from water

Due to the common wastewater treatment processes are incapable of removing all micropollutants from contaminated water, the number of alternative technologies of the water post-treatment (eg. ozonation, membrane technologies, or filtering with activated carbon (GAC) filters) is increasing. Although the efficiency of removal could be high, the existing solutions are very expensive, not environmental-friendly (e.g. activated carbon filter), and, on top of these, more toxic by-products can be resulted.

Our new, eco-friendly water treatment technology, CLEAREADY^TM MASS can remove the hazardous micropollutants cost-effectively from all types of water. The technology consists of containers with pumps for water circulation and transfer, and replaceable filtration cartridges are inserted inside the blocks.

At the end of the system, the treated water flows out while the filter cartridges adsorb the residues on their surfaces.

In our laboratory testing, more than 150 persistent active substances (pharmaceuticals, antibiotics, other persistent organic micropollutants) were investigated, and the efficiency of the filtration ranged from 65 to 90%, depends on initial concentrations.

Moreover, some of the most toxic drug derivatives (e.g. hormones, antidepressants, and anticonvulsants) were removed by the system with an efficiency of over 90%. CLEAREADY^TM MASS eliminates the main disadvantages of the current treatment technologies, and it can contribute to the circular economy.

Our team has accomplished a lot of research to determine the concentrations of micropollutants in waters.

Several micropollutants have been identified in our laboratory.

The removal efficiency of different adsorbents was investigated.

New adsorbents were tested at our laboratory.

Studies

Thermal baths as sources of pharmaceutical and illicit drug contamination

Dataset of pharmaceuticals in the Danube and related drinking water wells in the Budapest region

Occurrence of pharmaceuticals in the Danube and drinking water wells: Efficiency of riverbank filtration

Investigation of the sorption of 17a-ethynylestradiol (EE2) on soils formed under aerobic and anaerobic conditions

Market

Genotoxic vs. gene-protective products

1483 bn USD/year, in the following sectors:

Wastewater treatment services

Wastewater treatment plants Wastewater treatment solutions for the pharmaceutical industry

Agriculture

Irrigated land Hortculture Fisheries

Food & Beverage

Products without micropollutants

Our Team

Kondor, Attila Csaba

Project leader

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Szalai, Zoltán

Head of the laboratory

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Szabó, Lili

Analyst & Engineer

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Vancsik, Anna

Analyst & Engineer

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Jakab, Gergely

Senior consultant

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Kovácsné, Varga Katalin

Assistant

Who we are and what we do

The initiator and owner of CLEAREADY^TM brand, GEOInsight Co. is a Hungarian start-up formed to commercially utilize technology and procedural solutions, originally developed at the Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences. The company was founded in 2018 by the CEO Tünde Szabó, Ph.D. The company has two business departments: GEOInsight Data and GEOInsight Water.

The team consists of 12 members, seven of whom work in the water business. The Water Department of the company is led by Attila Kondor Ph.D., who is the chief technology officer (CTO) of the CLEAREADY^TM Micropollutants Adsorbent System.