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Add-o-mizer

Clean Water Scientific's patent pending technology is a device known as the Add-o-mizer, a cylindrical unit wherein liquid and gas are mixed under high pressure. Inside the unit the liquid and gas are mixed in a fashion to dissolve the gas into the liquid. Upon release from the unit, the gas appears in a small bubble formation within the liquid. This process has been used and proven very effective in water treatment and water purification and water oxygenation.

How the Add-o-mizer System Works

Effective mixing requires dissolving enough gas into a liquid to adequately eliminate dead spots in the basin, ensuring that the entire basin volume remains at proper gas levels. Most mixing methods perform poorly at the basin bottom and therefore rely heavily on strong effort to move gas-depleted liquids from the bottom of the basin to areas where liquid is needed.

BASINS

The Add-o-mizer processes water outside the basin oxygenating under pressure. The water is then returned to the bottom of the basin via a distribution system specifically designed to the individual basin to ensure thorough circulation and aeration.

AERATION

The system under pressure can achieve dissolved oxygen (DO) levels far higher than possible in an open basin. The Add-o-mizer system aerates by dissolving the feed gas into the water under pressure. This often makes aerating with air rather than oxygen very cost-effective.

MICROBUBBLES.

As the processed effluent is sufficiently supersaturated with oxygen, excess dissolved gas will flash to vapor upon return to the basin. By controlling the level of super saturation, the size of these “microbubbles” can be controlled to less than 5 microns in diameter - 0.005 millimeters! Slow rise rates of 0.2 to 0.8 cm/sec combined with a surface-to-volume ratio more than 1000 times higher than that for fine bubble diffusers. This makes microbubbles a very efficient mechanism of oxygenation with minimal operating and maintenance costs.

EFFICIENCY

Blower / diffuser – type aeration systems aerate at relatively low efficiencies. As a result, air must be supplied in great excess in order to ensure adequate dissolution of oxygen. With a (generous) oxygen transfer efficiency of 15%, a blower system must pump 374 cubic feet of air into water to dissolve 1 pound of oxygen. In order to dissolve the same 1 pound of oxygen into water, an Add-o-mizer system only needs to inject 11 cubic feet of air.

FLOTATION

Due to their small size and extremely slow rise rate, microbubbles are remarkably effective in floating both organic and inorganic dissolved solids. This makes the Add-o-mizer a valuable enhancement to the dissolved air flotation (DAF) process.