The Mazzei Injector Company has announced that its unique Pipeline Flash Reactor™ for ozone contacting was selected and installed by the Castaic Lake Water Agency. The water agency’s facilities include the Earl Schmidt Filtration Plant and the Rio Vista Water Treatment Plant. The plants treat Castaic Lake water supplied from the California State Water Project. Both plants recently underwent major expansion to increase capacity.
As part of the expansion of the Rio Vista Plant an alternative filtration treatment process was converted to an ozone contactor. The Mazzei Flash Reactor was selected for the ozone side stream injection because of its high efficiency and small footprint.
The 102″ Pipeline Flash Reactor™ uses application specific Mazzei nozzles to introduce the water/ozone side stream flow back into the main water flow at high velocities. This causes a section of the system to be a turbulent mixing chamber without the pressure loss of conventional mixing systems. Ozone mass transfer occurs within a few seconds and thoroughly mixes with the main pipe flow.
Spartan Environmental Technologies distributes Mazzei ozone water mixing products including venturi and nozzles.