Discharge

The technology

This should have been solved 50 years ago

The way many handle grease, air, and water today is hopelessly outdated. Chemicals, electricity, tedious cleaning, and frequent purification have been the standard for decades. It costs money, wears people down, and leaves problems that just keep returning.

We have found a better solution – by looking at nature.

PowerPack is a Danish technology that treats grease, air, and water using discharge. Discharge is not something we invented – it is a process that occurs in nature all the time.

"A cloud consists of droplets of liquid water, which gather due to electrostatic fields. When these fields can no longer hold the water due to changes in temperature and pressure, rain falls from the cloud, and the water droplets discharge the difference in static electricity between the ground and the cloud. The charge on an individual water droplet is not large, but if the electrostatic difference between the cloud and the ground is too great, we get a gigantic collective lightning discharge. This ionizes the oxygen in the air into ozone."

– Michael Bache, Chemical Engineer, Senior Researcher & PhD

It is the discharge process that makes the air after a thunderstorm feel so clean and easy to breathe. When a stream of water tumbles over stones in a brook, the same thing happens. The water releases its tension, minerals adhere less, and the water stays clearer.

Nature has always known it. We've just taken too long to listen.

PowerPack recreates precisely this process where it is needed. The technology works solely by the natural flow of water and air. No added electricity, no added chemicals, nothing to maintain.

The explanation is simple. The hydrogen bonds in water act like wallpaper paste between the molecules. They hold them together and cause limescale, grease, and biofilm to stick to surfaces. PowerPack discharges these bonds, releasing the molecules. Active, free water is more easily converted into gas and detaches from the surface. That is why ventilation ducts become dry instead of greasy. That is why limescale settles more as powder than stone. And that is why biofilm has more difficulty forming the film it lives behind.

The result is lower operating costs, reduced fire risk, and improved operation, working environment, and climate footprint. And we have documented this over 15 years and more than 5000 installations.