About Perlemax

Perlemax is the development company for Professor William Zimmerman’s technologies focussed on microbubbles. Currently there are two created techniques, which will impact many different processes, through improving yields, cutting power consumption or allowing new techniques to be realized.

Microbubbles

Micron-sized bubbles can have a quite dramatic effect on mass transfer in a gas to a liquid medium. Through new technology, Perlemax is able to engineer a process to precipitate dramatic changes in what can be expected or sought from conventional reactors.

Plasma Microreactors

Perlemax has successfully utilised plasma microreactor as for ozone generation, which has wide uses as a disinfection agent in wastewater treatment amongst other processes. The dosing of plasma activated microbubbles into liquids achieves the production of free radicals without the need for ozone as an intermediate.

Professor Will Zimmerman

Professor William BJ Zimmerman CEng FIChemE is the Professor of Biochemical Dynamical Systems at the University of Sheffield. He has studied at Princeton and Stanford before the award of his chair at Sheffield in 2004.

He has been awarded the following recent awards:

• 2009 Institution of Chemical Engineers Moulton Medal
• 2010 AXA Insurance Cleantech Open UK winner
• 2010 Royal Society Innovation Award (Brian Mercer Fund)

Registered Address

Registered in England and Wales
Company Number 07369873
VAT Number 109 9413 07