Ozone treatment of artesian well water
What is an ideal system of artesian water treatment? It is a system which clarifies water of harmful substance contained therein
(such as iron, hydrogen sulfide, manganese, organic compounds), sterilizes it and does not bring new toxic agents to the water in the
process.
The problem is that good purification of water from initial harmful impurities requires the use of strong oxidizing agents such as chlorine or potassium
permanganate. It is exactly what is most water purification installations.
There's no need to tell any more why use of chlorine is bad, but potassium permanganate is hazardous
also. Manganese is much more toxic than iron it is used to clear water of, and it is impossible to ensure its complete absence in clarified
water, even if the sys tem works ideally, let alone the case of any breakage. Besides
that, waste potassium permanganate remains in ground and spoils it.
An ideal solution is using an oxidizing agent as OZONE for water treatment. Ozone is produced from air oxygen immediately before being brought in to the water being
clarified. Ozone is a very powerful oxidizing agent, and at the same time it is completely harmless from the ecological point of view since its lifetime in water does not exceed several
minutes, and, on having fulfilled its useful job, it transforms back into oxygen it was produced
from. This unique feature of ozone is also the reason for its use as an oxidizing agent in the best water treatment
systems.
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