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News Release from: GB Environmental | Subject: UV water treatment for spas and swimming pools
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 October 2007
UV water treatment for spas and swimming
pools
GB Environmental chose the Leisure Industry Week exhibition to launch what the company describes as the world's most advanced Ultra Violet water treatment technology for spas and swimming pools.
GB's Marketing Director Ralph Coney said, "There was a great deal of interest in UV treatment at the LIW event because the owners and managers of leisure facilities want to make bathing a more pleasurable experience" "Reducing chlorine levels is a great way to achieve this, but our patented systems are the most technologically advanced in the market which means that they have a low energy (running cost) requirement whilst providing the best possible levels of disinfection"
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 4 Apr 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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UV water treatment kills the micro organisms that cause disease so that chlorine levels can be dramatically reduced.
This eradicates the oppressive smell of chlorine and puts an end to sore red eyes.
UV treatment also helps to prevent waterborne infections such as those which cause severe earache.
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UV disinfection is commonly employed to treat drinking water, swimming pools and spa water, and the key to an efficient UV system is clean lamps.
This is particularly important because the performance of more traditional UV lamps can become hampered by a build up of grease and scum.
The unique catalytic-oxidation process employed by GB Environmental's 'Safeguard' range uses cleaning heads that revolve around the lamps and react with fouling material to keep the tubes spotlessly clean; bond-breaking without the need for additional chemicals.
Four PTFE segments are sprung-loaded around each quartz tube and the corners of each segment scour the quartz as they are being driven both radially and axially.
Inside the scrapers are two Tioxisprings.
These gauze pads produce a unique catalytic process to cleanse the outside of the tube of any remaining fouling or scale, even in hard water areas.
The cleansing mechanism acts as a static mixer, producing high turbulence with a low pressure drop, dramatically increasing efficiency.
As a result, the GB Environmental UV disinfection equipment operates with a substantially lower energy requirement than competitive systems.
Commenting on the benefits of his company's technology to the pool and leisure market, Dr Ron Mitchell, GB Environmental's Managing Director said: "To make the transition from chlorine to UV, pool operators need reassurance that UV is exactly what it purports to be - a highly reliable, cost-effective, low maintenance alternative".
"With this mind, all GB Environmental products have been designed to provide maximum kill with minimum operator effort".
"The integral lamp cleaning system provides continuous and efficient results".
"This maintains the UV lamps in optimum functionality, requiring minimal maintenance with only an annual need for replacement".
"Not only does this keep costs down, it also provides peace of mind that the minimum dose of UV light for adequate disinfection is always provided".
"SafeGuard neither adds nor takes anything away from the water, so it does not produce any chemically induced side-effects".
"When used as the main disinfection process chlorine need only be used at very low concentrations".
"This dramatically reduces the sharp smell of chlorine, negating the problem of stinging eyes and making the whole swimming experience both safer and more pleasant.".
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