The operating principles

The Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP)

Cross section through Titanium AOP reactor

The Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP) that is at the heart of the system has been shown to provide an exceptional capacity to ‘kill-all’ waterborne organisms as well as to decompose the resulting organic matter. This unselective ‘kill-all’ technology gives complete oxidation and purification of the water system that represents a watershed in the advancement of water treatment technology.

Until now where high killing rates are needed to achieve good levels of disinfection, unstable high maintenance chemical systems such as Ozone have been used. The alternative is now available through the use of the Titanium AOP system that offers the highest killing rates in a chemical free, low energy, environmentally friendly package that is also simple and cost effective to maintain.

The unique design of the AOP unit produces a proliferation of Hydroxyl Radicals OH that are extremely unstable and aggressive. These radicals react instantaneously with micro-organisms and other organic contaminants within the water and literally tear them apart by removing hydrogen atoms from any living organism present within the reactor chamber. This hydrogen extraction and electron transfer completely destroys their cell structure and continues to break down all by-products and pollutants eventually to carbon dioxide.

The chemical reaction is so quick that the Hydroxyl Radical exists for only a few milliseconds before it reverts back to the stable state of water.