Entry for December 29, 2008

Spartan Environmental Technologies occassionally notes the work of other companies in the ozone water treatment field.  Recently, Seair reported some work in this field. The Seair activities corresponds to work by other companies, including Spartan on oil field water treatment.  Produced water is the water used in the extraction of oil from the ground.  In […]

Entry for December 19, 2008

An important application for ozone is pulp bleaching.  Chlorine is a major pulp bleaching agent, but its application is declining as other bleaching agents take its place such as chlorine dioxide and ozone.  Even in developing countries, efforts are being made to move toward alternatives such as ozone.  The Indian company lTC recently launched an […]

Entry for December 18, 2008

Ozone has many different applications.  In this post we will discuss the use of ozone in commercial laundries.  Two important advantages of ozone in a commercial laundry are effectively cleaning in cold water while also providing powerful disinfecting capability. The Beverly Hills 5 Star Hotel, L’Ermitage, has recently signed an agreement to install a Eco-Safe […]

Entry for December 17, 2008

The market research firm Global Water Intelligence has announced the publication of Water Market USA, a study of the US water treatment market.  The study indicates that long-term growth in spending for water and wastewater infrastructure in the United States is “guaranteed,” although spending during 2009 will be reduced. The largest area of long-term US […]

Entry for December 16, 2008

Air Products recently announced that HiPOx technology, an ozone-based advanced oxidation process (AOP) water treatment technology, has been granted conditional acceptance by the California Department of Public Health for unrestricted water reuse under Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations. HiPOx injects and mixes ozone with hydrogen peroxide to maximize the production of hydroxyl […]

Entry for December 15, 2008

Air Products and ITT WEDECO have recently disclosed a process for recovery unused oxygen from ozone generator gas.  This is important since oxygen is a major cost factor for producing ozone and the conversion efficiency from oxygen to ozone is only 6-15%.  Therefore, in most oxygen fed ozone systems, the vast majority of oxygen is […]