Chemical-Free Water Purification
h2o.TITANIUM Advanced Oxidative Photocatalysis (AOP)
h2o.TITANIUM AOP is a water sterilization system designed to destroy Legionella, Cryptosporidium, Pseudomonas and harmful organisms while preventing the formation of bio-films.
It is an environmentally friendly ‘gatekeeper’ solution that prevents Legionella, Cryptosporidium, Pseudomonas and other organisms from entering the water system within the building. Titanium AOP has been installed within the UK, throughout other parts of Europe and Asia in a range of applications including potable water supplies, cooling towers, humidifiers, swimming pools, spas, showers and process water.
The Advanced Oxidative Photocatalysis (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 h2o.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 microorganisms 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.
There are environmental benefits of specifying and installing an AOP system because:
- No chemicals are added to the water, which reduces the risk of corrosion to pipework and valves
- There is no storage and handling of chemicals on site and the associated COSHH requirement
- There are reduced maintenance and servicing requirements
- The system operates with fail-safe controls
- The system has full WRAS approval for drinking water supplies
- The power consumption of system is low
