SAFE & EFFECTIVE WATER DISINFECTION AT LAST!
- Reliable, patented, core technologies perfected by Soviet physicists over a period of 30 years
- Irish design and manufacture of delivery and control systems with global distributorships
- Technology in use providing municipal water to cities for over a decade
- Wastewater treatment also possible
- Effective disinfection based on natural antimicrobial processes
- Non-toxic to humans and animals
There are two important processes in potable water treatment:
- Water Purification - to remove particular contaminants from a water source
- Water Disinfection - specifically, a purification process that kills or removes biological contaminants (cysts, bacteria, viruses, protozoans, etc.) from a water source.
Several different systems, in combination, are necessary to deal with parameters in both these processes.
How does ECAFLO™ compare to chlorination?
Traditional chlorination systems can kill a range of pathogenic microbes, however, it has the following disadvantages,
- It taints the water,
- Is not effective against biofilms,
- Is subject to pH effects and other inconsistencies
- Is easily neutralised by organic materials
- Fails to kill cryptosporidium and other protozoa and
- Actually adds toxic chemical by-products (such as trihalomethanes) to the water in the disinfection process!
It is increasingly unpopular with both scientists and the public due to its tendency to interact with other chemicals in water and produce toxic and carcinogenic compounds.
How does chlorination work?
Traditional chlorination depends on releasing several forms of chlorine (together referred to as ‘free’ chlorine) into the water. These are namely some chlorine itself, hypochlorite ion and hypochlorous acid. Hypochlorous acid is about 100 times more effective as a disinfectant than hypochlorite but the chlorination method only produces this in low levels.
How does the ECAFLO™ technology differ and what are the advantages:
ECASOL™ is a new form of this disinfectant effect, however:
it consists of over 90% hypochlorous acid plus a mixture of other equally effective antimicrobial substances. This makes it more effective than chlorination. But its advantages do not stop there.
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It is effective at even low doses
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It does not form toxic chloramines
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It does not form toxic trihalomethanes
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It does not form toxic bromates and bromorganic by-products in the presence of bromides
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It can destroy phenols – a source of disagreeable taste and odour in many rural Irish water sources
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It can remove other foreign flavours and odours
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It is an efficient oxidant and disinfectant for not only bacteria and viruses but all types of microorganisms including protozoan cysts (Giardia, Cryptosporidium)
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It is very effective against Legionella
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It removes iron, manganese and magnesium by prompt oxidation and oxide sedimentation and helps eliminate water turbidity
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It does not require transportation and storage of toxic chemicals for its generation
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It is under stable control during production yielding a consistent product
