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- OneWaternaturally is a water industry consultant and specialist supplier in non-chemical water treatment and water conditioning.
- water purification technologies
- There are 6 distinct water treatment technologies (water purification technologies): Filtration, Corrosion Control, Ion Exchange/Dimineralization, Aeration, Disinfection/Oxidation, Organic/Inorganic Removal.
- barriers and filter systems
- The vast majority of purification systems involve filtration of some sort. All filtration works on the same principle, only the sizes of the pores in the filters are different. The best filtration that is commercially available is filtration by Reverse Osmosis. Pore sizes here are .0006 microns. Going to larger filtration pores you have nano-filtration .006 microns, ultra-filtration .06 microns, and micro-filtration .6 microns. After this you have various other filtration media which range from 1 micron to 100 commonly known as sediment filters. For size comparisons, a human hair is about 100 microns.
- Filtration has many forms but remain dependant on an uncertain outcome and particular mechanical solutions that may require constant maintaince to revert the captured material out of the system
- barrier filtration may use synthetic material and rely on a physical infrastructure that must be oversighted and removed for maintenance. Such systems may need to be bypassed when its design load is exceeded.
- media filtration can be used as initial course screening or as a settlement mechanism. This process can be bulky and may limit some essential characteristics such as
- flow porosity;
- level of contained polutants reentering the system; and
- blockage from poor level of water quality such as suspended solids and organic matter.
- treatment is a common technique in filtration by attaching a chemical feeder before the filtering media to inject chemicals in water to change the chemical properties of the undesirables in water so it can be filtered out by the media. Chemical treatment can effectively address one of the issues that is impacting on the use of water or the release of water back to the environment.
- The disadvantage of chemical treatment is that it may create other undesirable effects and often it takes a cocktale of chemicals to treat the whole problem for a certain cost leaving an environmental impact or potential impact;
- is an environmentally beneficial treatment where the significant advantages include:
The process is to simply install a conditioner in the pipeline after the pumps and marvel at the effectiveness of the conditioner, quitely working away for the benefit of the whole system.
The outcomes, over time :
- reduce the need for intensive maintenance;
- reduce the storgage of hazadious and expensive chemicals;
- improve operations and longevity of plant and equipment.
Depending on the application the conditioners is applied to, economic benefits to be gained include:
- soil condition improvement;
- crop and stock health, leading to production benefits; and
- a reduction in water usage requirements for agriculture and industry can occur.
- is a natural treatment utilising naturally occurring microbes in an annorobic and/or aerobic process. The inclusions are air, surface areas, settlement , land application areas and selected plants for absorption.
- constraints on this from of treatment include :
with a chemical imperitative, careful use of biodegradable substances.
- In earlier times, farmers used to throw silver coins in water buckets to kill bacteria and other forms of organic pollutants. Silver was and is effective in killing certain types of bacteria. Today silver is still used to some extent to kill bacteria (primarily as part of a filtration device) but we have grown immensly in our ability to achieve direct organic destruction with better and lower cost technologies .
- The main organic destruction technologies today involve chlorinating the water or ultra-violet light bombardment. These technologies are low cost and simple to install and are usually used in addition to filtration devices which cannot filter organics.