BlueInGreen Addresses Need for Improved Ozone Treatment of Drinking Water

The National Science Foundation funds a pilot scale study at drinking water treatment facilities 

Fayetteville, AR – BlueInGreen, LLC has received a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research award for $100,000 from the National Science Foundation to study the implementation of the company’s patent-pending ozone dissolution technology for improving safety and quality of drinking water.   Beaver Water District in Northwest Arkansas and the Tulsa Metropolitan Utility Authority are collaborators on the project.  BlueInGreen’s Hyperconcentrated Dissolved Ozone treatment system (HYDOZ™) delivers a concentrated stream of dissolved ozone in water.  Traditional ozonation technologies are not efficient at dissolving ozone bubbles into water, resulting in hazardous ozone off-gassing that must be captured.  This adds significant expense to ozonation treatment, which has limited its application in favor of chlorine pretreatment.  BlueInGreen plans to resolve these issues by delivering ozone in solution, resulting in safe and high quality drinking water.  Ozone quickly converts into oxygen following treatment, so it has no lasting impact on the environment.

The use of chlorine in drinking water pretreatment has been linked to the formation of harmful disinfection byproducts (DBPs).  The EPA has recently implemented a Stage 2 Disinfection Byproducts Rule to reduce their presence in the drinking water supply.  BlueInGreen’s HYDOZ technology may be applied at key steps within the drinking water treatment process to improve disinfection of the drinking water supply, remove odorous and foul-tasting compounds, and to minimize the formation of DBPs.

The HYDOZ system will be installed at the Tulsa Metropolitan Utility Authority A.B. Jewell pilot-plant facility.  Based upon results of the first phase of this project, BlueInGreen will develop a full-scale prototype for the facility.  Dr. Marty Matlock, Chief Scientific Officer of BlueInGreen, is excited about the potential of the HYDOZ system to solve drinking water problems, “The current need to minimize the use of chlorine in drinking water treatment facilities across the nation gives high priority to the development of alternative disinfection technologies. We feel that this collaborative effort between BlueInGreen, Beaver Water District and the Tulsa Metropolitan Utility Authority will provide advances in ozonation technology that will solve many drinking water problems,”  Matlock said.