Treatment Methods

Treatment Methods

What is ozone and why is it useful?
Ozone may be generated by man in small quantities. Ozone is oxygen atoms, O2, which have been activated to accept an extra oxygen atom, and combine to form the ozone molecule, O3.

ENZYMES AND/OR OZONE ARE POWERFUL TOOLS THAT YIELD USABLE WATER FROM WASTE WATER
Ozone is inherently an unstable molecule and will react with a great variety of materials in order to return to its more stable oxygen, O2 state. In fact, if the Ozone molecule cannot react with any material, it will naturally decay within 20 to 40 minutes after generation. This reaction with other materials, Oxidation, makes Ozone very attractive in purifying water and waste water.

How are Natural Enzymes Derived?
Natural enzymes are a renewable source, through the natural fermentation of seaweed, malt, molasses, and vegetable matter. Small amounts of non-toxic stabilizer are added to the formula to prevent it from becoming polluted prior to each use.

OZONE WILL ATTACH AND DESTROY VIRUSES, BACTERIA, AND OTHER POLLUTANTS up to 3000 TIMES FASTER THAN CHLORINE.

Enzymes - a Totally Different Approach

Enzymes enhance the quality of reclaimed water, in a safe manner, without the use of string corrosive oxidizers that cause damage to equipment and pose a health risk to employees. This type of water treatment is completely natural and will not cause irritation to eyes or skin.

It works more effectively and efficiently, because it attacks bacterial cell walls, causing instant cell destruction. Ozone will react with hydrogensulfide (the chemicals that make water smell like rotten eggs) and alleviate much of the bad smell. In most reactions, noticeable clarifcation of cloudy or discolored water will occur. Unlike chlorine, Ozone has no residual, and leaves no chemical by-products in the water. In short, Ozone is the most powerful and safe biocide known today that can be employed to help purify water, and water for vehicle wash systems.

Con-Serv Water Recovery Systems

Offer Automatic Dosing in all models of enzyme recovery systems. Con-Serv uses a safe, dependable, dose-injecting dispenser. This method allows up to 90 days of unattended dispensing. This type of programmable pump and timer will dispense exact proportions to accomodate the variable size and capacity of reclaim storage tanks.

When processed water is required, the primary pump may be remotely energized from a dry contact source, or from an optional on board pressure switch and bladder tank.

Ozonated wastewater is drawn from holding tank No. 2 into the primary pumps stainless steel filter basket. Here large debris is captured prior to entering the pump.

The water then enters the primary filter where all particles and globules larger than 25 micron cross sections are captured. This filter may be easily and quickly be cleaned or replaced. After leaving the primary filter, the water enters the secondary filter where chemicals, oils, and small debris (larger than 5 micron cross-section) are removed.

The water is now clean and free of chemicals, dyed organic and inorganic materials, and ready for re-use.

The Con-Serv systems are equipped with filter monitors, which indicate when the filters are becoming clogged with debris.

Maintenance of the system is to inspect and clean the pump basket strainers daily, clean and or replace the primary and secondary filters as indicated by the filter monitoring gauges.

Ozonation process in filtration:

The ozone re-circulation pump runs continuously drawing water from the last tank and pulling through a stainless steel filter basket (where large debris is trapped), then sending it through a centrifugal vortex style particle separator. In the centrifugal particle separator the heavy sand and dirt particles are extracted and returned to the drain sump. The processed water from the centrifugal particle separator is then forced through the ozone injector where ozone and dry air are injected into the water stream.

Immediately the ozone starts to react with the organic and inorganic materials in the waste water: this reaction continues as the water is transferred back into the holding tank No.1.

The ozone reacts with the oils, waxes, dyes and solvents to de-emulsify these materials where they are removed from the water, forming floating dry dirty foam at the surface. This foam may be removed with oil absorbent cloth materials, or it may be floated off to a holding bin via overflow of the No. 1 holding tank.

The ozone reacts with the organic materials by oxidation. Bacterial cells are killed and turned into a globule material, which is easily captured by the post filtration. Killing the bacteria cell prohibits the accumulation of odor associated with reclaim water.

The ozone reacts with the inorganic materials in the water by chemical oxidation reactions, which generally turn these materials into an inert oxide chemical form, which either settles out of the water or is caught in post filtration.

This ozonation process may be timed for small holding tanks with moderately dirty water, or may be left to run continuously for larger tanks.