A startup in the state, of West Bengal, has developed a device that produces oxygen from water named 'OM Redox'. This device is developed by Solaire Initiatives Pvt Ltd that is incubated within the Webel-BCC&I Tech Incubation Centre. The founders of the technology have said that the device can provide pure oxygen from water by simply pressing a switch.

HIGHLIGHTS 
A startup ‘OM Redox’ in West Bengal has come up with a device
The device provides pure oxygen from water which is 3.5 times purer
Launched at the 1st Bio-Tech Expo 2022

Dr. Soumyajit Roy and his wife Dr. Pei Liang, the startup venture's cofounders have claimed about the machine that it is nothing but a “deep science innovation that would generate the oxygen that is 3.5 times purer than the one that normally gets from a concentrator.” The device was finalised by the Department of Biotechnology for showcasing and to launch on its 10th foundation day and at the first Bio-Tech Expo 2022.

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“Pressure swing adsorption method for production of oxygen works with the liquefaction of air, while the concentrator operates through concentration of air with the help of a compressor and then passing it through a catalyst. In these two processes, oxygen is generated from the air. Ours is an alternative technology,” said Roy, the professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata.

He notified people that their innovation is termed pneumatically coupled water oxidation by electrocatalytic reaction (Power) within which the life-saving gas, oxygen is made from water on Earth.

“This technology is patented, and approved by World Health Organization and European Conformity,” he claimed, adding that the scientist couple is in discussion with numerous organisations for licensing the device and producing and marketing it.

'The product could be a sleek white pinewood box, weighing 8kg, that provides oxygen just on pressing a switch and runs with electricity and conjointly with a battery back-up of 3.5 hours,” said Pei Liang, a bachelor of medicine from a Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China.

The device is made handy and later scaled up, she said at a programme organized jointly by West Bengal Electronics Industry Development Corporation Limited (Webel) and the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

According to Sunrita Hazra, the West Bengal Electronics Industry Development Corporation Limited (Webel) Managing Director “We are actively considering the proposal for manufacturing and promoting of the device that produces oxygen. We are positive about the technology and impressed with its simplicity of it. Anyone can operate the device. With the progress that the startup has made, commercialisation of the device is expected in the next three months.”

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