MOVA Technologies creates groundbreaking pollution filtration system
BLACKSBURG, Va. (WDBJ) - A local company has created a way to harvest harmful pollutants from the air and turn them into recyclable material for profit. MOVA Technologies’ panel-bed filtration system is designed to help the environment and the economy. Last week, it passed its proof-of-concept testing, bringing it one step closer to market.
Located in the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center in Blacksburg, Dr. Joseph Meadows and a small team at the Advanced Propulsion and Power Laboratory has been testing a prototype of the filtration system for the last 11 months.
“What it does is it takes containment gases that we would potentially see in the stream of flu gas coming out of a power plant and it extracts those through a chemical process of absorbing the chemicals and solid absorbents that go inside these louvers that go in the device,” Meadows said.