Faculty Profile - Jack adams

Inotec is a company that is focused on employing a new technology developed here University of Utah for the treatment of waters. And we're currently focused on removing various metals and inorganics from mining waters. We found years ago that the way that the electrons are distributed to a reactor system as well as the microbes play a big part on just how effectively contaminants can be removed. Over the decades we've been thinking, well, what would happen if we could make these electrons more available to the microbes and chemical reactions going on in the system. Would this enhance the system performance? And indeed it does. It makes them more efficient, more robust and more controllable throughout the reactor environment leading to a greener, more efficient system. Right now we're looking at use of the technology in Canada, the U.S. and South America location. Involving graduate students in projects allows the graduate students to be involved in a different aspect of the research. The graduate students are actually doing the work. They're the ones that are going to take these technologies to the next level. A configuration like this -- it's the ultimate goal of any professor to see the work that they and their graduate students are doing being carried out and actually being used. That's the goal of most of the research we're doing, is to make things happen in a more efficient, cleaner manner.