Product application
#Healthcare
Recent technological advancements in the fields of optics, electronics, materials and analytical chemistry is enabling the design of disruptive sensors.
Physical sensors involving the detection of healthcare metrics such as heart rate and body temperature have been successfully miniaturized. However, the analysis of biological fluids such as blood and interstitial fluid has proved to be much more challenging, where current technologies involves laborious pre-processing and bulky analyzers, in labs.
The comprehensive monitoring of blood composition is an important function in healthcare. Detection of potassium levels in blood could highlight hypo/hyperkalemia, where an early alert system could indicate underlying renal, cardiac issues. Monitoring of calcium levels is another imperative aspect in healthcare, where lessened/elevated levels of calcium could indicate neuro, musculoskeletal, oncological concerns.
At Vulcan Photonics, we develop disruptive technologies that replace costly, bulky and time-consuming tests that are conducted in hospitals. Our mission is to bring low-cost, instantaneous health screening to every household. .
#Water and the environment
Compact heavy metal sensors can improve the monitoring of wastewater discharge and water source for agricultural purposes, enabling a much-needed boost in environmental sustainability and food safety.
Keeping pace with the fast-evolving electrical devices and electronics technologies, energy production and storage technologies have evolved to be more effective and efficient. However, this comes at a cost of manufacturing more devices and processing phased out devices which contains toxic heavy metals. Waste discharged from such facilities might contaminate our valuable water resource with toxic heavy metals. This contaminated water resource might be used for agricultural purposes, indirectly exposing our food sources to toxic heavy metals. Frequent monitoring of such contamination from the source and water resource feedstock is difficult and costly as samples needs to be taken and sent to a labs with bulky analyzers.
The comprehensive monitoring of heavy metal ions on site can highlight potential contaminations, where manufacturing and processing plants could rectify issues with wastewater treatment units, and agriculture farms can do immediate water remediation before informing the authorities and using the water resource for agricultural purposes.
At Vulcan Photonics, we seek to develop disruptive technologies that replace costly, bulky and time-consuming lab tests for heavy metal ions, to improve environmental sustainability and food safety.
#Mining
Heightened environmental expectations and government regulations to reduce heavy metals released into the environment and improve water quality are driving faster adoption of heavy metal sensors. Heavy metal sensors with the ability to detect rare earth elements and its isotopes on-site can be vital for the mining industries and their future technological prowess.
Industries that depend heavily on the detection of such heavy metal elements will benefit from the instant generation of results that are vital during the mining, processing and waste disposal phases. In line with the rapid advancement of mining industries, analysis instruments based on mass spectrometry, used to detect the presence of these rare earth elements has grown increasingly accurate and sensitive. However, it is worth noting that these results could only be generated by bulky analysis equipment in the laboratory (e.g. ICP-MS) and require professional sample handling and preparation steps. In this industry, the detection of isotopes that previously could only be performed by ICP-MS, can now be realized by using Vulcan photonics.
At Vulcan Photonics, we delight in elevating standard complex analytical procedure and allow for the universal application of our heavy metal ion sensors. By leveraging our expansive technical, research and development expertise, we aim to improve our partner’s experience in heavy metal and rare earth element detection.
Controlling pollution demands Vulcan Photonics.
#Oil-Water Recovery Technology
Oily wastewater is commonly produced in every major step of the lifetime of petroleum: exploration, transportation, storage, refining, application, and disposal.
Traditional oil treatment technologies include physical collection by skimmer and pumping, physical confinement by floating boom, air flotation, gravity separation, etc. Each of those, however, has its own niche application scenario, out of which it becomes ineffective.
At Vulcan Photonics, we develop disruptive technologies that allow better, safer oil- water separation.