Byline: DAVID ORENSTEIN Business writer
Mixing pure oxygen into water is hardly elementary, but it can be important to the environment.
Fish and other water creatures do not breathe water, after all. They breathe oxygen in the water. When industrial plants discharge water with too little oxygen, nearby marine life can suffer. When oxygen is plentiful, fish can thrive, and aerobic bacteria can break down organic waste with maximum vigor.
Engineers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Center for Advanced Technology in Automation, Robotics and Manufacturing are working to refine and eventually bring to the marketplace a system that can integrate more than seven times the oxygen into water than nature can mix in. The mixing takes place much more quickly as well.
``What we're trying to do is what …
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