We at TechnoPure have teamed up with a consortium of today’s most innovative and technologically advanced minds. In doing so, we have evolved to become a premier source of indoor environmental and water quality products. The following is a description of our cooling tower system and how it works alone and in tandem with side stream filtration to create our Hybrid Water purification system.

HOW WE MAXIMIZE COOLING TOWER EFFICIENCY

• Maintain proper water quality
• Maximize heat transfer efficiency
• Minimize blow downs and the need for makeup water
• Reduce time down due to mucking/cleaning sumps
• Increase equipment life
• Reduce chemical usage
• 3-5 micron side stream filtration

THE FUTURE OF COOLING TOWERS

YESTERDAY’S OPTIONS

• Chemically Excessive
• Required numerous Blow Downs
• Frequent Shutdowns for Mucking
• Premature Equipment Replacement
• No Water Quality Monitoring
• No remote management

TODAY’S OPTIONS WITH TECHNOPURE

• No Chemicals
• Reduce Blow downs
• No manual Cleaning of Filters
• Reduced Number of Cleaning Related Shutdowns
• Extended Equipment Life
• Total Water Quality Management
• Total Remote Management

Excessive Chemicals:
Bad for your employees,
Bad for the environment,
Bad for your image

THE DOWN SIDE OF CHEMICALS

COST

• The cost of the chemicals themselves
• The cost of storage and disposal
• The potential for human injury during handling
• Potential spills and cleanup costs
• Environmental damage

DAMAGE TO EQUIPMENT

• Corrosive chemicals shorten equipment life
• Corrode pipes and leads to leaks

HUMAN EXPOSURE

• Need to train personal to handle corrosive chemicals
• Increased risk of job site injuries

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

• Runoff chemicals damage our ecosystem
• Increases pollution and human exposure

MAN HOURS/LIABILITY RISK

• Exposure to Chemicals
• Legionaries
• Working in Hazardous Towers (OSHA)

COST OF WATER VS. SAVINGS

• 100cft = 748 gallons
• Price per 100cf = .70
• Average daily usage at Raging Wire will be 330,000 gallons
• 33o,ooo gallons / 478 = 441.17 100cft x .70 = 308.19
• 308.19 x .75 = 231.61
• 308.19 - 231.61 = 76.9
• 76.9 x 365days in a calendar year =
• $27,951.70 In Savings a Year

COST OF REPLACEMENT PUMPS, SUMPS, CORRODED PIPES AND TOWERS

Unbalanced water and corrosive chemicals significantly reduce equipment and piping life.

SEWER AND WATER COST (MUNICIPALITY)

Excessive blow downs means massive amounts of make up water generating large municipality bill and putting a huge strain on the environment.

Extra charges from Municipalities to treat the chemicals put down the sewer during blow downs.

TOTAL DISSOLVED SOLIDS

How do you reduce or remove the TDS in your water? Common water filters and water purification systems:

1. Carbon Filtration

   Charcoal, a form of carbon with a high surface area, adsorbs (or sticks to) many compounds, including some toxic compounds. Water is passed through activated charcoal to remove contaminants. The filter is then backwashed to clean the carbon of the contaminants it has collected.

   Volume of backwash water needed and size of filters would make this an unviable alternative.

2. Reverse Osmosis

   Reverse osmosis works by forcing water under great pressure against a semi-permeable membrane that allows water molecules to pass through while excluding most contaminants. RO is the most thorough method of water purification available. It is an extremely slow and expensive process.

   Not a scalable technology to the needs required from a cooling tower.

3. Distillation

   Distillation involves boiling the water to produce water vapor. The water vapor then rises to a cooled surface where it can condense back into a liquid and be collected. Because the dissolved solids are not normally vaporized, they remain in the boiling solution.

   This would require more cooling towers to be built. Not a good capital investment.

4. Deionization (DI)

   Water is passed between a positive cathode and a negative annode. Ion selective membranes allow the positive ions to separate from the water toward the negative electrode and the negative ions toward the positive electrode. High purity de-ionized water results. The water is usually passed through a reverse osmosis unit first to remove nonionic organic contaminants.

   Non scalable to the size required for cooling towers

5. Oxidation / Ionization With TechnoPure Revolutionary Hybrid Water Purification Technology

   Water is passed between a positive Cathode and a negative Anode. The Hydrogen is adsorbed from the water molecule itself leaving the free oxygen to combine as O2. Oxygen is a powerful oxidizer that not only burns up organic matter but also flocculates any particulates enlarging there size and making them easier to filter.

   Since we are not looking to drink cooling tower water and because we are enlarging the particulate matter Zeolite filtration (3-5um) is adequate to substantially reduce TDS. Pressure differential monitoring of the side stream filters will initiate automatic backwashing of filters, continuously optimizing the removal of solids.

HOW WE COMBAT SCALE

Calcium crystal exists in no less than three forms. The two forms most commonly found are:

Trigonal

Orthorhombic

Where the opportunity occurs, ions, atoms, or molecules arrange themselves in position of least energy and more symmetrical and regular crystal forms.

The transformation of trigonal to orthorhombic is much more rapid when in contact with water containing dissolved calcium carbonate.  One way to speed up this transformation is to induce a magnetic field which affects the intermolecular forces and, as a result, changes the crystalline structure of scale from aragonite to calcite, which has a higher solubility.  This effect makes water more capable of dissolving the existing scale build-up encrustations which, in the form of “lime sludge”, can easily be captured by side stream filtration.

MUCKING

With the protection offered by TechnoPure’s side stream filtration and water conditioning there is a significantly reduced need for mucking. Removing TDS from solution before it has a chance to settle and form sludge on the bottom of the tower leads to fewer shut downs for mucking and less time down when there is a need for mucking.

ELECTRICAL EFFICIENCY

An even less noticeable, but perhaps even more significant, benefit of the TechnoPureTM technology, is its ability to extend the life of equipment such as heaters, pumps, and the surface of equipment, by eliminating the chemicals that accelerate corrosion and cause breakdowns.

As you can see, in real terms, even if the hard numbers only indicated a break-even situation, we will still be cutting costs that may not show up for a year, and may be visible only by some inexplicable decrease in costs, or increase in revenues elsewhere.

OXIDATION

Electronic Oxidation:
Through our microprocessor based controller, our TechnoPure unit applies low amperage, low voltage power across our titanium plates with a proprietary coating. This produces electrolysis of the water molecules and separates the H2O into hydrogen and oxygen. The free hydrogen and free oxygen molecules recombine to allow us to oxidize the water. We are using the base components of water to purify itself, the perfect solution for non-chemical water treatment.

IONIZATION

Copper Zinc Ionization:
Through our microprocessor based controller, our TechnoPure unit applies low amperage, low voltage power across our copper-zinc plates. This ionization process releases low residual levels, .4-.7 PPM, of ionic copper (CU++) and ionic zinc (ZN++) in the water.

Both elements are responsible for bacteria and algae control. The NSF and EPA have recognized for many years the efficiency of these residuals as an excellent alternate sanitizer to chlorine. This process of adding low levels of these residuals also satisfies the water’s aggressiveness for metals.

AUTOMATION

Complete Pump Room Automation

Through the use of our TechnoPure 600 Programmable Pump Room Controller, we assure the utmost efficiency of all our system’s components. Our controller is capable of the following processes:

• Automate up to 3 systems with one controller
• Complete pump room control, touch screen display
• Customized applications to any size application
• Microprocessor based, precise and intelligent
• Modular design, easily expandable to 64 functions
• Data storage over 1 year
• Proportional controlled exact chemical dosing
• Intelligent control for any size application
• Security password eliminates unauthorized access
• Flow cell with built-in sampling ports
• Unsurpassed warranty
• Modem capable for remote monitoring and management
• ETL listed, conforms to UL standards, 1563 5th Edition

MONITORING

Remote Monitoring and Management Network

• Through our TechnoPure wireless network, we now have a 24 hour, 7 day a week monitoring service.
• This allows us to view any of our equipment through phone lines or Internet access using wireless modems.
• In real time, we can be alerted to problems with your equipment and water quality before your technicians ever notice.
• This allows us to call up your controller and attempt a repair or calibration. If we can solve the problem, you will receive via fax or email, a description of the problem and our course of action taken.
• If we cannot remotely repair the reason for the alarm condition, we will notify your technician and walk them through the repair process.
• If no on-site technician is available, we will dispatch a technician to the site to reconcile the issue as soon as possible.

CONDUCTIVITY

• TP600 interfaces with conductivity meters for automated blow down when needed.
• With the constantly balanced water created using the TechnoPure system and our side stream filtration the amount of TDS in the water will be reduced resulting in reduced Conductivity which in turn lessens the need for blow down.
• This results in savings on the expense of make up water used to recover from blow downs.

SIDE STREAM FILTRATION

• Automatically backwashed through the TP600 controller.
• The Oxidization processes Flocculate and solid particulates making zeolite filtration (3-5uM) more effective than otherwise possible.
• Zeolite is an antimicrobial, will remove over 90% of viruses, bacteria, algae, and cryptosporidium.  
• Zeolite also absorbs chloramines, nitrates, ammonia, phosphates, iron, manganese, and filters giardia cyst and 75% of the bacteria known to man.

ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY

• Simple the purest water available
• Significantly reduce the need for chemicals
• Minimize discharge of dirty waste water
• Help the environment

ROI

• Man Hours
• Chemicals
• Equipment
• Utility Cost
• Electric
• Water

TECHNOPURE VS. OTHER SYSTEMS

STATE OF THE ART

• With TechnoPure’s Hybrid Water system you will be on the cutting edge of water purification technology.
• The TechnoPure System has completely upgradeable softer and firmware.
• These upgrades can be made over the Internet.
• We offer 24/7 monitoring using a remote modem.
• As well as digital alarms sent to our diagnostics team in the event of a problem.

We at TechnoPure are committed to reducing the constant exposure to harmful chemicals that we are all experiencing today. We believe that this is the true way to good health. We are committed to ongoing research to continually upgrade our systems and develop new technologies to better serve our clients in the future.