Benefits    Reduce Slime & Bacteria

Remove the breeding habitat

The Scale-buster^® technology combines several effects, which help to prevent the environment in which bacteria, algae and slime thrive. The most obvious way in which Scalebuster creates hygienic conditions is by removing hard water scale from pipes and heating surfaces. It is a well-known fact that scale provides an excellent breeding habitat for bacteria and germs. This is why so much attention is paid towards maintaining clean toilet bowls with a minimum of scale lining the upper rim. This scale can provide breeding grounds for bacteria. Clean smooth surfaces provide no haven for germs. Hard water scale is comprised of millions of tiny chambers, which remain immune to bleach and disinfectant. See Reduce & Inhibit Scale

The two effects outlined below are little known and unique to Scalebuster's patented design.

Dielectric material (PTFE) in specially designed passages and cavitation chambers create capacitive effects due to the generation of "static charge" on the boundary layer of the PTFE. These very large surface areas of PTFE have the effect of neutralising charged colloidal particles. Colloidal particles are kept in suspension by their possession of like charges. They constantly repel each other and remain in suspension as extremely small particles, usually below 1 micro-meter in diameter. By neutralising these charges, they flocculate to form a floc of larger particles, which can absorb nutrients vital to bacteria. The presence of a large surface area of zinc anode causes the release of minute amounts of zinc together with oxides of zinc formed at the cathode (in this case metal pipes and vessels). These act as coagulants as well as acting as nuclei to initiate the formation of large particles. The increase in particle size before and after passing through the Scalebuster is shown on the improve filtration page.

This production of a floc enables treatment by filtration to become much more effective downstream. Meanwhile many nutrients essential to the growth and sustenance of bacteria have been eliminated, binding them up in the floc particles.

The Scalebuster has many applications beyond the most obvious such as cooling towers and hot/cold water systems. For instance, irrigation water in ponds and reservoirs can be pre-treated to avoid contamination by algae and slime, which need nutrients to propagate.