safe chlorination Articles
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Field trial of an automated batch chlorinator system at shared water points in an urban community of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Point-of-use water treatment with chlorine is underutilized in low-income households. The Zimba, an automated batch chlorinator, requires no electricity or moving parts, and can be installed at shared water points with intermittent flow. We conducted a small-scale trial to assess the acceptability and quality of Zimba-treated municipal water. Fieldworkers collected stored drinking water over ...
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4 reasons chlorine dioxide should be your preferred sanitiser
To the lay-person, a commercial kitchen is just a floor and some equipment that needs a good clean regularly. They don’t understand the dangers of bacterial contamination and how easy it is for food to be affected. Most commercial kitchens will use bleach, or a similar sanitiser, to keep their space safe. Today, we will share with you the top five reasons you should be using chlorine ...
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Why you should be wary of using chlorine to treat drinking water
Clean drinking water is something we often take for granted. At the turn of a tap, we have access to chlorinated water for every day use. However, for people who don’t want or can’t access scheme water, there is often a question of how to treat other water sources to make them safe. Chlorine is the most common water treatment agent. It is used by the Department of Health in Western ...
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Chlorine Theory & Measurement
Chlorine, dissolved in liquid is one of the most effective and economical semi-killers for the treatment of water to make it potable or safe to drink. Chlorine's powerful disinfectant qualities come from its ability to bond with and destroy the outer surfaces of bacteria and viruses. Drinking water chlorination is one of the most widely used methods to safeguard chinking water supplies. In ...
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Chlorine gas protection - Case Study
Application As part of a scheme to bring safe drinking water to 1.5 million people in Omdurman City, part of Greater Khartoum, Biwater International was appointed by the Government of Sudan to undertake a major turnkey design and construction project. Chlorine is the conventional means of water disinfection, so Biwater brought in ERG to design and manufacture the emergency gas scrubbing package ...
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Chlorine Safety and Prevention: How to Protect Yourself from Chlorine Leaks
While chlorine gas is widely used in swimming pools, water treatment facilities, cleaning products, pharmaceutical products, and in many other industries, the gas is highly toxic when handled improperly. Training your workers on how to safely use chlorine is one part of health and safety best practices; monitoring your workplace for chlorine leaks is another. Learn about the hidden dangers in ...
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Providing clean water to impoverished homes
With high mortality rates from inadequate water sanitation in developing countries, the promise of inexpensive and effective water purification methods holds end¬less opportunities to improve public health and living standards. For more than a billion people forced to use con¬taminated water, diseases such as chol¬era, typhoid, chronic dysentery and rotavirus diarrhea are constant ...
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Your Tap Water is More Toxic than you Think
At a Glance A new study proves that while adding chlorine to water has kept water clearer of diseases such as cholera and typhoid fever, it can leave behind toxic byproducts. These byproducts may have the potential to harm an individual’s long term health. At this point we don't even know all the byproducts left in the water from the current treatment methods. Your tap water might ...
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The Wonders of Ammonia & Chlorine
The two most common chemicals found in your home, office and commercial facilities in one form or another are Ammonia (NH3) and Chlorine (Cl2). They are also two of the oldest and most widely produced chemicals in commercial use around the world. Ammonia, a refrigerant by “nature” Refrigeration by mechanical means goes back to the 1800s and ammonia was among the earliest chemicals to ...
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The WaterBank Project Indonesia - Case Study
The WaterBank Project is situated in the Terban district on the island of Java in Indonesia. A densely populated area, Terban lies approximately one kilometer from the central business district of the city of Yogyakarta. Most of the residents of Terban are economically disadvantaged with an average income of $5 per day. Clean water is a luxury few can afford in this area. The discolored ...
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Filtration & Chlorination Systems: Household Water Treatment Options in Developing Countries
Five household water treatment and safe storage (HWTS) options – chlorination, solar disinfection, ceramic filtration, sand filtration, and flocculation/disinfection – are proven to improve microbiological quality and prevent diarrheal disease in developing countries. Other options – such as filtration & ...
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Sustained effectiveness of automatic chlorinators installed in community-scale water distribution systems during an emergency recovery project in Haiti
In 2012 and 2013, as part of relief-to-recovery programming, Child Relief International partnered with Haiti Philanthropy to install automatic tablet-based chlorinators in 79 gravity-fed water distribution systems in Southeast Department, Haiti. We carried out a mixed methods evaluation to assess sustained effectiveness of chlorinators approximately two years after installation, including 18 ...
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Chlorine levels in pools
In response to a SportExcel CPD seminar in April 2004 on pool water disinfection ISRM is reissuing this updated guidance. Also, recent press reports have highlighted the theoretical risks of high chlorine levels in swimming pools in relation to both pregnant women and levels of childhood asthma. This further reinforces the need for operators to provide the highest pool water standards possible. ...
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Types and applications of residual chlorine sensors for water quality
Background:Residual chlorine sensor is an essential tool in water treatment. They are used to measure the concentration of free chlorine that remains in water after being treated with chlorine. Residual chlorine level is an important parameter to determine the effect of water treatment and ensure the safety of drinking water supply.Chlorine is added to water as a disinfectant to kill harmful ...
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Gas Detectors Can Ensure Chlorine Safety in Swimming Pools
In April 2019, six people became sick after being exposed to chlorine gas at a hotel pool in India, because one of the chlorine gas cylinders, which had been stored improperly, began to leak, exposing swimmers to chlorine gas. In June 2019, some 50 pool patrons became ill after a pump malfunction leaked chlorine gas at an indoor pool in Utah. These are not isolated events. According to the ...
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Electrolysis Brine Chemical Concept
Sodium hypochlorite mainly works by generating hypochlorous acid though hydrolysis, and the hypochlorous acid will decompose nascent oxygen further, whose strong oxidation will denature the protein of the virus and other substance, it leads to kill pathogenic microorganism. What’s more, hypochlorous acid can not only act on cell wall, virus’s outer shell, but also on the body of the ...
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A new look at Bromine - a potential sleeping giant?
The daunting challenge By now, most in the international drinking water industry are very familiar with the UN Millennium Development Goal to reduce by half the number of people lacking daily access to safe drinking water by 2015 and that the majority of the world’s 1.1 billion in greatest need are living in developing and under-developed countries. In some of the developing world’s ...
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