OZONATOR

The advantages of ozonation include:

• eliminates odors
• reduces oxygen demanding matter, turbidity and surfactants
• removes most colors, phenolics and cyanides
• increases dissolved oxygen
• production of n o significant toxic side products
• increases suspended solids reduction

These innovations, of course, are efforts to increase the effectiveness of ozonation systems while minimizing costs associated with ozone generation. Typically, once-through air feed/air cooled systems require about 6 to 9 kwh/lb while recycled oxygen feed/air cooled systems require about 2.5 to 3.5 kwh/lb. It can be seen from these power consumption figures that if pure oxygen is readily available, the cost of ozone generation can be cut dramatically.