PriMera Scientific Engineering (ISSN: 2834-2550)

Review Article

Volume 5 Issue 4

OxTube Water Clarification

Juhani Pylkkanen*

September 30, 2024

DOI : 10.56831/PSEN-05-154

Abstract

Water is a pure substance that carries a huge load during its natural cycle on the earth, in the bio systems, in washing and cleaning, as well as in industrial and agricultural processes. Water gets rid of the load by evaporation powered by the sun, and leaves it in the ponds, lakes and seas. In spite of modern waste water treatment these dumps of the water cycle become worse, and energy and chemicals consumption of the treatment has increased steadily. The waters and eco systems suffer increasing amount of drug and pharmaceutical residues, nutrients, various poisons, many other chemicals, micro plastics, microbe growth and algae, and low oxygen.

The natural water cycle is the largest transportation and climate cooling system in the globe powered by the sun. A lot of evaporation cool has lost by extension of civilization, open area building and construction, and underground sewerage systems. Wastewater is pumped underground thousands of kilometers to concentrated waste water plants and further to waters. The natural water cycle as well as photosynthesis is shrunk significantly.

OxTube water clarification separates the load from the water such a way that the most of it can be removed and recycled. The clarification is hermetic and consists of four seamless phases; (1) separation of dissolved ingredients, (2) molecular activation, (3) clarification reactions, and (4) replacement dissolving of air or other gases. It separates dissolved gases like radon, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide and hydrocarbon, and dissolved solids like iron, manganese, calcium, fluorine and phosphorus. The molecules are activated and clarification reactions happen immediately by suction of clean air, oxygen or ozone. The clarified water is aerated or oxygenated right after the clarification. All this happens within a second or few seconds depending on water volumes to be clarified. Disinfection of 100 percent microbe reduction can be completed and microbe growth eliminated by ozone feed in the tube combined with the clarification. OxTube can be integrated in various water systems like fountains, flotation, hydro power generation, ships, boats and rivers.

Keywords: Wastewater Treatment; Water Clarification; Water Disinfection; Water Recycling; Particle Separation; Pharmaceutics Removal; Radon Removal

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