Noble gases,
directly from air.

We're developing UAP's Atmospheric Processor® to capture neon, krypton and xenon from ambient air. No host oxygen plant required.

THE PROBLEM

Every gram of neon, krypton and xenon is a by-product.

Chips, satellites, lasers and medical imaging depend on them. None has a dedicated source.

Today they are recovered at a small number of large air separation units built to serve bulk oxygen and nitrogen demand. Only around 100 of more than 3,000 units worldwide recover them.

So supply follows steel and oxygen. Not the industries that need the gases.

  • Nitrogen 78.08 %

  • Oxygen 20.95 %

  • Argon 0.93 %

  • Neon 18.2 ppm

  • Krypton 1.14 ppm

  • Xenon 0.087 ppm

  • Dry air, by volume. 1 ppm = 0.0001 %.

THE APPROACH

Atmospheric processing.

The direct, demand-led extraction of rare and valuable resources from ambient air through plasma-based electromagnetic separation. Target species are selected by mass, not harvested as by-products.

AIR IN  →  IONISE  →  SEPARATE BY MASS  →  STAGED CAPTURE  →  Ne · Kr · Xe

Demand-led

Dedicated capacity that follows noble-gas demand. No host oxygen business needed.

Site-flexible

Designed to be sited around electricity and customers, not a bulk oxygen buyer.

Modular

Scale comes from geometry and repeated capture stages. Not new process physics.

PROGRESS

We retire risk in sequence.

Mk1 is running and has returned its first separation data. Mk2 takes the full architecture to continuous flow at reduced scale. Each step answers one question before the next is funded.

  • Mk1 · Measured
    Physics demonstrator. Online May 2026. First separation data in.

  • US 12,458,921 B2 · Measured
    US patent granted. Further applications pending.

  • Mk2 · Active
    Integrated continuous-flow pilot. Target: 500 kg of air per hour. Establishes recovery, purity, stability and operating cost.

  • Mk3 · Modelled
    First commercial unit. Qualified commercial supply.

  • Mk4 to Mk6 · Modelled
    Repeatable deployment. Argon next, then further products where demand justifies them.

  • Throughput figures are air processed, not product output.

POSITION

We don't compete with the industrial gas majors. We're building to supply them.

Relief, not replacement. We plan to own and operate the plants and sell the gases: an independent, neutral source of supply for the companies that already purify, certify and distribute them.

WORKING WITH

  • CERN
    Knowledge Transfer programme. Sensing and instrumentation.

  • Amentum
    Memorandum of understanding. Engineering validation.

  • Tokamak Energy
    Engaged for HTS coil modelling.

  • Cambridge Multi-Physics
    Simulation validation.

  • Sci-Tech Daresbury
    Home base.

  • CSconnected
    Member. UK compound semiconductor cluster.

CONTACT

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