Water Is More Than Just Water
Not all water is created equal. Water content varies greatly from our faucets, to rivers and lakes, being composed of much more than simply hydrogen and oxygen molecules. Almost all water which is retrieved from a primary source includes a variety of minerals and organisms, some which may be beneficial for its use, and some which may be detrimental. Common practice in the wastewater industry is to use chlorine and other chemicals or treatments to attempt to prevent and limit the growth of these harmful pathogens, easing the treatment process. Water is an essential for life, and it is of utmost importance to ensure our primary water sources stay clean and safe. It is important to obtain adequate physicochemical properties in the water, to ensure the most efficient and safe wastewater treatment process possible. Seeing as water can vary in these properties by the hour, and can harbour dangerous pathogens and bacteria, ways to efficiently standardize water quality at its optimal ranges adds value to any organization.
How Does Water Quality Affect Wastewater Treatment?
It is essential that water quality is closely controlled to comply with industry safety parameters and optimize water treatment to avoid hazardous effects. Optimal water quality creates favourable conditions for wastewater treatment and reduces bacteria and pathogens, which can potentially affect the end consumer. Improved water quality can also reduce environmental pollution which arises from improper wastewater treatment processes. Several parameters must be maintained within ideal ranges to ensure optimal treatment, these parameters are temperature, dissolved oxygen, salinity, alkalinity, pH, settleable solids, and conductivity, among others.
What Can Engeenuity Offer Your Wastewater Treatment?
Water Reuse
Our technology has been proven to reduce surface tension, which causes more efficient molecular bonds between active ingredients, optimizing the treatment process. By controlling micro bacterial and physicochemical properties, as well as adding our Bacteriostatic Mechanism of Action, we can simplify the water reuse cycle, providing a solution for water-stressed cities and regions around the world. We make the water reuse process more efficient and accessible for industries by improving water used in a production process, reducing chemical usage upwards of 50% and naturally decreasing microbial contamination by >90%. Optimal water entering a process increases efficient water reuse processes.
Environmental Control/ Bacteria & Pathogen Reduction
By introducing our bacteriostatic mechanism of action in the water, we were able to prove our capacity to reduce the presence of bacteria and pathogen in wastewater treatment. By applying our Bacteriostatic Mechanism of Action, we can inhibit the reproduction of bacteria in any environment, especially water. By applying our technology in your processes, not only can you control the parameters of the water which enters your process, but also control the water discharge quality. In river water, we decreased the growth rate and total count of microbial contamination in organic systems or in water by >90%, in five consecutive tests, which, in conclusion, helps to use considerably less amount of chemicals to achieve the desired results.
Reduced Chemicals in Water Management Systems & Products
One of the main water parameters which Engeenuity is able to modify is surface tension. By reducing surface tension in water, we are able to weaken the water’s molecular bonds, allowing more efficient unions between chemical and water molecules, which also causes for the water to more readily soak into pores and organisms. On several tests run in a chemical production plant in Panama, we were able to reduce by >50% the amount of active ingredients in Cleaner, Glass Cleaner, and Degreaser/Hard Surface Cleaner, yet provided improved cleaning capacity compared to the original mixtures. This effect has also been replicated in water used for human consumption, in the Panama Canal’s Miraflores Water Treatment Plant, where we reduced coliform bacteria by >90% and a decrease in total bacteria by upwards of 60%, without using chemicals. Engeenuity’ s technology required lower costs by eliminating chlorine and other chemicals used in treating process water and chemicals used in the product mixtures. It was also mentioned that one of the 4 quantifiable objectives of improvements caused by Engeenuity´s technology was minimizing the use of chlorine and other chemicals used in their processes, which reduced costs and improved workers´ health.