According to reports, AquiSense Technologies, an American UV LED disinfection technology company, announced that it will participate in 10 aerospace projects.
In 2022, AquiSense was selected to participate in BIOWYSE, a project of the European Union Horizon 2020 programme (Horizon 2020), dedicated to designing and testing water monitoring and treatment systems for the next generation of manned space stations. Since then, several other aerospace projects have looked to AquiSense for water treatment technology.
These projects include providing product design and hardware to private space companies such as Bigelow Aerospace, Thales Alenia Space Italia, KBR Wyle and Aero Sekur, as well as various NASA groups including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Johnson Space Center ( Johnson Space Center) and Marshall Space Flight Center.
These projects include keeping growth systems clean in space greenhouses, reducing the maintenance burden of biofilm formation in closed environments, and disinfecting drinking water for astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
Rich Simons, Product Development Scientist at AquiSense, said, “These types of applications are exciting for us because they drive innovation in our technology and allow us to better understand the possibilities and limitations of UV-C LED disinfection.
According to the latest 2019 Deep UV LED Application Market Report - Sterilization, Purification and Water Treatment Market released by TrendForce LED Research (LEDinside), looking forward to the application market demand, in addition to the stable growth of the curing market, surface/air sterilization and purification, still water Sterilization and flowing water sterilization are the main growth drivers in the future. It is estimated that the output value of the UV LED market will reach US$991 million in 2023.