Solaire Develops Device to Produce Oxygen from Water

According to the founders of the technology, a startup in West Bengal has developed a device that produces oxygen from water simply by pressing a switch. They claim that 'OM Redox,' a device developed by Solaire Initiatives Pvt Ltd and incubated in the Webel-BCC&I Tech Incubation Centre here, produces pure oxygen from water.

According to the startup venture's co-founders, Dr. Soumyajit Roy and his wife Dr. Pei Liang, the machine is nothing more than a "deep science innovation that generates oxygen that is 3.5 times purer than that which is normally obtained from a concentrator." The Department of Biotechnology chose the device for display and launch on its 10th anniversary and at the first Bio-Tech Expo 2022.

"Pressure swing adsorption method for production of oxygen works with the liquefaction of air, while concentrator operates through concentration of air by a compressor and then passing it through a catalyst. In these two processes, oxygen is generated from the air. Ours is an alternative technology," Roy, the professor of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata. He said their innovation is called pneumatically coupled water oxidation by electrocatalytic reaction (Power) in which the life-saving gas is produced from water.