AquaPurixTM Pulsed UV Water Disinfection & Remediation
AquaPurix is a cleantech water remediation system that produces healthy water by instantly photo-dissociating toxic contaminants with energy efficient high-intensity pulses of ultraviolet light.
The heart of AquaPurix is an environmentally-friendly flash lamp unit, SafeLight, that remediates low/unknown integrity water. Mimicking the natural restorative effects of sunlight, the inside of the SafeLight generator produces ultra-short, yet high-intensity pulses of UV and visible light that is about 100,000 times brighter than the sunlight that bathes the surface of the earth.
The Pulsed UV light (and electrical consumption) is only utilized upon flow demand, and always only in the precise amount required. A single commercial AquaPurix unit (up to 20 gallons per minute water flow) can deliver at least 28,000 gallons per day of “peace of mind” pristine water. Electrical power brownouts (and even blackouts) do not adversely affect the performance, because the failsafe operation of AquaPurix continues, delivering many hundreds of gallons of safe water, even without electricity! For an average home in the USA, this is several days of water supply.
Besides AquaPurix Pulsed Light, all other commercially-available forms of UV disinfection use Continuous-Wave UV light, which is always powered “on”, consuming electricity (even if the water is not flowing, and no further disinfection is needed). These Continuous-Wave UV lamps require mercury, which is a well-known dangerous neurotoxin, in order to produce UV. The AquaPurix SafeLight generators are filled only with small amounts of inert gases that naturally occur in clean air.
These are the reasons why the US Environmental Protection Agency has recently funded research into exploring the feasability of Pulsed UV lamps as a benign alternative to the toxic mercury Continuous-Wave UV lamps, and as a new “best available technology” for water disinfection applications. The published results of this ground-breaking Pulsed UV Light Research are impressive, showing that for the tested microbes Pulsed UV light produced significantly more efficient microbial destruction than that of mercury Continuous-Wave UV lamps.
Mercury UV and AquaPurix “SafeLight” UV Comparison
Compared to mercury UV installed for most typical residential applications worldwide, AquaPurix on-demand purification delivers 5 (five) times the remediation power of mercury UV lamp systems while consuming only 5% of the electrical energy!