Safety, Harmlessness and Profitability (Nevinnomyssk)

The event of 16 February that occurred at MUP “Vodokanal” shall take its sufficient part in future improvement of not only health, but also safety of all the urban inhabitants. The matter, we touch upon, concerns to adjustment and commissioning of the new water treatment and disinfection equipment – the first lot of plants AQUACHLOR”.

Today, all the municipal drink water is disinfected by means of chlorine to be the technology of quite a negative character. On the first place, chlorine is kept at the storehouse. With the chlorine concentrated in the air in the amount of 3 g/m3, the resultant dose is lethal and, therefore, any accidence resulted in chlorine leakage may have catastrophic aftereffects. As per the agreement made between the municipal authority and OJSC “EvroChim”, chlorine is subject to keeping at the storage area of OJSC “Nevinnomyssky Azot”. On the second place, with water disinfected by means of chlorine, some amount of harmful and hazardous-to-health chloroorganic compounds is produced.

Naturally, both the inhabitants and authorities were very disturbed. In the coarse of projecting of the 15-year urban development strategy the urban inhabitants offered some ideas with respect to the urban social development. Thus, one inhabitant, N.Z. Dneprova offered to reject utilization of chlorine in the water treatment process. Mayor, V.I. Ledovsky ordered to A.S. Asmolovsky, Chief Engineer of Municipal Economy, Sales and Business Committee to work over the suggested question. Asmolovsky said that upon considering all the potentialities, they selected the method of hypochlorite water treatment, as the technology was valued as cheap, highly efficient and safe variant.

At the show of “Aquatech-2006”, the MUP “Vodokanal” personnel and municipal administration authorities could see the new “Aquachlor” oxidant-generating technology with the disinfectant produced from absolute harmless components – water and common salt (sodium chloride) – that interacting produce the oxidant solution. The disinfectant produced kill bacteria, microbacteria, viruses and fungi that may be kept in the treated water. Besides, no bacteria addiction is observed.

“Aquachlor” is very efficient plant with its 4 kW output and about 2 kg of sodium chloride in the form of saturated water solution to be applied for production of 1 kg of disinfectant. Thus, the offered technology is rather cheaper than the existent water treatment method with use of chlorine. The produced oxidant compound is more active than chlorine and no large amount of the components is required. Besides, the chloroorganic compounds are produced in water in their least amount. So, we have briefly described the characteristics of the new disinfecting solution produced by the “Aquachlor” technology that was purchased by municipal authorities for MUP “Vodokanal” at the expense of the funds gained within the frames of Agreement for social-economy collaboration with Closed Company “MKKH “Evrochim” (about 6.5 million roubles). Needless to say that our town is the only one that operates this equipment within our district and in the southern area of the Russian Federation.

Tamara P. Nizhelskaya, Head of MUP “Vodokanal” filtering station said the following: “On selecting “Aquachlor” developed by NPO “Ekran” and Medical Equipment Research Institute (RF Ministry of Health, Moscow), company ‘Inzhkomproject” conducted its feasibility study. These plants are very compact, ecological and safe in their operation. Today, we have purchased 9 units. For complete disinfection of drink water we need for several others plants. Besides, we would able to reject purchasing, transportation and storage of chlorine and unload the town from hazards.

At present, some plants “Aquachlor” are mounted at the MUP “Vodokanal” filtering station by the personnel of NPO “Ekran” (Moscow). The water treatment facilities are scheduled to commissioning only upon termination of their full adjustment, project closeout and relevant procedures of agreement.

Authored by Irina Letzinskaya (with the assistance of Department for Public, Religion Organization and Mass Media relations)

Source: Information Portal NevinkaOnline.RU
Issued: 27.02.2007