GreenInBlue receives NSF funds to study HYDOZ "TM" at drinking water treatment facility; Addresses need for improved ozone treatment of drinking water
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (December 28, 2006) -- BlueInGreen, LLC understands the need to minimize chlorine use in drinking water treatment facilities, so they have worked diligently to develop alternative disinfection technologies. The National Science Foundation (NSF) recognized their efforts and gave the company a $100,000 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research award recently to study the implementation of BlueInGreen's patent-pending ozone dissolution technology, Hyperconcentrated Dissolved Ozone treatment system (HYDOZ "TM").
Beaver Water District in Northwest Arkansas and the Tulsa Metropolitan Utility Authority are collaborators on the project. The HYDOZ "TM" system will be installed at the Tulsa Metropolitan Utility Authority A.B. Jewell pilot-plant facility. Based upon results of the first phase of this project, BlueInGreen will develop a full-scale prototype for the facility.
HYDOZ "TM" improves the safety and quality of drinking water by delivering a concentrated stream of dissolved ozone in water. Since ozone quickly converts into oxygen following treatment, it has no lasting impact on the environment. Traditional ozonation technologies are not efficient at dissolving ozone bubbles into water, resulting in hazardous ozone off-gassing that must be captured. This adds significant expense to ozonation treatment, which has limited its application in favor of chlorine pretreatment.
The use of chlorine in drinking water pretreatment has been linked to the formation of harmful disinfection byproducts (DBPs). The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently implemented a Stage 2 Disinfection Byproducts Rule to reduce their presence in the drinking water supply. BlueInGreen's HYDOZ "TM" technology may be applied at key steps within the drinking water treatment process to improve disinfection of the drinking water supply, remove odorous and foul-tasting compounds, and to minimize the formation of DBPs.
BlueInGreen Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Marty Matlock is excited about the potential of the HYDOZ "TM" system to solve drinking water problems. "The current need to minimize the use of chlorine in drinking water treatment facilities across the nation gives high priority to the development of alternative disinfection technologies," Matlock said. "We believe that this collaborative effort between BlueInGreen, Beaver Water District and the Tulsa Metropolitan Utility Authority will provide advances in ozonation technology that will solve many drinking water problems."
For more information about BlueInGreen, contact Greg Magness at (479) 527-6378 or visit the website at www.blueingreen.biz.
Beaver Water District in Northwest Arkansas and the Tulsa Metropolitan Utility Authority are collaborators on the project. The HYDOZ "TM" system will be installed at the Tulsa Metropolitan Utility Authority A.B. Jewell pilot-plant facility. Based upon results of the first phase of this project, BlueInGreen will develop a full-scale prototype for the facility.
HYDOZ "TM" improves the safety and quality of drinking water by delivering a concentrated stream of dissolved ozone in water. Since ozone quickly converts into oxygen following treatment, it has no lasting impact on the environment. Traditional ozonation technologies are not efficient at dissolving ozone bubbles into water, resulting in hazardous ozone off-gassing that must be captured. This adds significant expense to ozonation treatment, which has limited its application in favor of chlorine pretreatment.
The use of chlorine in drinking water pretreatment has been linked to the formation of harmful disinfection byproducts (DBPs). The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently implemented a Stage 2 Disinfection Byproducts Rule to reduce their presence in the drinking water supply. BlueInGreen's HYDOZ "TM" technology may be applied at key steps within the drinking water treatment process to improve disinfection of the drinking water supply, remove odorous and foul-tasting compounds, and to minimize the formation of DBPs.
BlueInGreen Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Marty Matlock is excited about the potential of the HYDOZ "TM" system to solve drinking water problems. "The current need to minimize the use of chlorine in drinking water treatment facilities across the nation gives high priority to the development of alternative disinfection technologies," Matlock said. "We believe that this collaborative effort between BlueInGreen, Beaver Water District and the Tulsa Metropolitan Utility Authority will provide advances in ozonation technology that will solve many drinking water problems."
For more information about BlueInGreen, contact Greg Magness at (479) 527-6378 or visit the website at www.blueingreen.biz.
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