Biogill is an Australian company established in 2009 with the aim of commercializing a technology developed a few years earlier by ANSTO, an Australian organization specializing in nuclear research, based on the interesting property of some ceramic nanomaterials that acted as an exchange surface, during the construction of synthetic rocks for the storage of radioactive waste. Around 2010, the first demonstrative projects in the field of wastewater treatment were developed and a couple of years later the technology was already consolidated both for the treatment of wastewater of shopping centers and for the reduction of the pollution load contained in the wastewater generated from breweries, wine and spirits processing industries, as well as food industries.
The technology takes its name from the gills of fish because, as it happens in many of the aquatic animals where oxygen is transferred from the water to the organism of the fish, in the case of Biogill, the gill represented by a lamellar surface of nanomaterials, acts as an exchange element capable of amplifying the transfer of oxygen from the atmosphere to the microorganisms responsible for the purification process. This particular system also allows for a significantly lower production of biological sludge than traditional biological processes.