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Hello and welcome. I'm your host, Peter Balland from Technicon. In this final episode of

the Aquarius podcast series, we look again at the testing of the prototype. A valuable

consortium member for this purpose is industrial partner OMV. They are well equipped to evaluate

the sensor which has come out of Aquarius.

It's early yet and there is still much work to be done, but having a prototype like this

is great news for Aquarius. It brings us one step closer to finding contaminants in water,

in line, and online, meaning the process is done on site, not in a lab.

In today's episode, we speak with Christoph Pulse from OMV.

He is involved in the day-to-day when it comes to testing the prototype.

Thanks for joining us today.

Yes, thank you.

In the last few episodes, we learned that Aquarius was a project which ultimately contributed to clean water through advanced

sensing techniques. Can you tell us what OMV's role is in Aquarius?

As an industrial partner, OMV was leading the testing and validation of the developed

online sensing system. Our water treatment plant in Schenkirchen in Lower Austria, which was refitted in 2015, has a capacity of 10 million cubic meters of water per year, and is located conveniently near our tech center and lab.

Accordingly, we have the possibility to test the developed system using water streams in different stages of a cleanup process and can evaluate

the system's performance in a broad range of application levels. Due to the nature of our produced

waters, these represent rather harsh operating conditions for the Aquarius prototype, and we were

able to point out a multitude of enhancements for the system to increase reliability and as a direct

consequence, decrease maintenance cost for future users of Aquarius systems.

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