Advantages

AQUACHLOR plants and electrochemically activated oxidants mixture solution produced by them do not have any analogues. AQUACHLOR plants are the unique technical electrochemical systems in which the ion-selective electrolysis technology based on flow electrochemical modular elements PEM-7 is used.

Many years' experience of AQUACHLOR plants operation and of electrochemically activated oxidants mixture solution application as disinfecting agent, gained at many drinking water purification stations, in swimming pools, in pools for reptiles and fish constructed at farms, at waste-water treatment stations operated in Russia and in the foreign countries, has demonstrated the following advantages of this technology over well-known and existing water disinfection and purification technologies.

AQUACHLOR plants advantages over any other plants applied for water disinfection at drinking water-supply stations, in swimming pools, at waste-water treatment stations consist in opportunity to generate oxidants mixture solution which by many times exceeds its analogues in quality by all the parameters. This is achieved owing to PEM-7 flow electrochemical modular elements application in patented process flow sheets. As far as its operation is concerned, AQUACHLOR plants have the following advantages:

• AQUACHLOR plants not only successfully replace traditional cylinders with liquefied chlorine applied at small-, medium- and large-scale drinking water-supply station but also exceed them in quality of water disinfection (500 to 300 000 cubic metres of water per twenty-four hours, and more).
• AQUACHLOR plants are able to satisfy any requirements in oxidants mixture solution due to the fact that they could be completed to ensure any output capacity by oxidants owing to their modular construction.
• AQUACHLOR plants permit to obtain the required quantity of oxidants solution and caustic soda directly at the place of their consumption.
• AQUACHLOR plants could be located in existing chlorination premises, with available hydraulic and electric networks operated and without any design and installation works performed.
• AQUACHLOR plants are compact: electrochemical unit of А-500 plant occupies approximately 0,3 square metres of the floor space.
• AQUACHLOR plants ensure absolute safety of water disinfection process (AQUACHLOR plants application is not governed by any safety regulations controlling chlorine production, storage, transportation and application, or by any rules of hydrogen production using water electrolysis method).
• AQUACHLOR plants operation permits to reduce salt and electric energy consumption to minimum.
• In contrast to hypochlorite plants, AQUACHLOR plants do not require any accumulation reservoirs and metering pumps application.
• AQUACHLOR plants operation eliminates the necessity to create “estrangement areas” around chlorination premises and chlorine storehouses.
• AQUACHLOR plants operation eliminates the necessity in poisonous substances storage, transportation and utilization.

The advantages of electrochemically activated oxidants mixture solution obtained in AQUACHLOR plants over sodium hypochlorite, chlorine, chlorine dioxide, chloramine, ozone, ultraviolet have been multiply proved by researches, scientific reports and many years' experience of its application.

There are the following properties perfectly combined in electrochemically activated oxidants mixture solution:

• Oxidants mixture solution is characterized by high antimicrobial activity with respect to all kinds of pathogenic microorganisms, including spores.
• Oxidants mixture solution is efficient if its concentrations in water being processed are reduced relative to existing standards and is characterized by residual after-effect, that is why local authorities and institutions of State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service are recommended to obtain a more precise definition to cumulative oxidants concentration in processed water, required for water disinfection, the definition to be directed towards its reduction, in comparison with exiting standards.
• Oxidants mixture solution does not generate chlorination by-products, such as trihalomethanes, with the latter fact proved by scientific researches results.
• Oxidants mixture solution destroys phenols – the source of objectionable taste and odour.
• Oxidants mixture solution facilitates iron and magnesium removal from water by means of their rapid oxidation and oxides precipitation.
• Oxidants mixture solution does not generate bromates and bromine-organic by-products in the bromides presence.
• Oxidants mixture solution facilitates turbidity elimination from water.
• Oxidants mixture solution facilitates extraneous after-tastes and odours elimination from water being processed.
• Oxidants mixture solution application ensures absolute harmlessness for human beings’, animals’ and other creatures’ organisms.
• Oxidants mixture solution is not accumulated in surrounding environment.
• Maximal level of salt conversion from the parent solution makes 98 to 99,5 %%.
• Oxidants mixture solution efficiently removes biofilms from the water ducts surface, with the latter effect excluding the necessity of ammonation.
• Oxidants mixture solution application reduces the water ducts corrosion rate.
• Oxidants mixture solution cost, being relatively low in comparison with other disinfecting agents cost, is the indicator of its economy properties and rapid pay-back capability.

Oxidants mixture solution can be effectively applied not only at drinking water treatment stations, in swimming pools, at waste-waters treatment stations, but is also successfully used in technological processes implemented in food industry, with its efficiency exceeding the efficiency of reagents that were used before that period.