Re: Chlorine-Alternative

One of the best ways to treat organics in water is UV light. a 24-30 light bed will effectively treat up to 2000 gpm of refinery waste water. Cost was 350K, of course maintanence of lights is a must. Training of operators to analyze the water properly is the hardest part. Chlorine is easier to train operators on, set the rotometer and walk away.
03 ( ozone) is great oxidizer but can have corrosion and maintanence headaches. Peroxide is a little easier to work with but here again corrosion issues using an oxidizor are things that operators of water treatment have to deal with.

All ythe oxidizers are fairly cheap to set up, Complete systems are probably in the 10K -40K range. That why UV loses almost every time. Tweet