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Water Resolution
Water Resolution is the application of Alkaline Hydrolysis to human cadavers to produce a pure ash bone shadow. It is an accelerated version of the natural process of hydrolysis driven decomposition after burial.
The individual body is essentially placed into a horizontal pressure vessel and then a fully automated process of pressure, high temperature, and alkalinity accelerates the natural process of tissue hydrolysis back into the building blocks of life. The product is sent back to the environment to be recycled.
The alkaline hydrolysis technology has been through the approval process over the last five years by the European Scientific Committee as an alternative to incineration. Incineration was the only method that could be used up until last year when the alkaline hydrolysis process was officially approved and written into European Law.
BioSAFE Engineering's Alkaline Hydrolysis Process is patented in 23 Countries including the USA, Canada and the (EU) European Community for cadavers.
What is Alkaline Hydrolysis?
Alkaline Hydrolysis is a natural process. Bodies that are buried in the earth are degraded by alkaline hydrolysis, expedited by the soil bacteria. This is a very slow process.
Food in the intestine is digested into usable nutrients by alkaline hydrolysis, expedited by enzymes that operate at a pH 7-8 at body temperature. This is a moderately fast process for relatively small amounts of tissue.
The alkaline hydrolysis process uses strong alkali (pH 14) to solubilize and hydrolyze tissue, expedited by heat at 150˚C in a pressurized vessel. This process generates a solution of amino acids, peptides, sugars, and soap (salts of fatty acids) that that is suitable for release to drain, land applied as fertilizer, or recycled in many ways. Also produced are pure white bone shadows (ash), which may be easily powdered and given to the relatives as in cremation. The powder is 100% specific to that corpse.