Ozone Infused Water Sanitizes Food
As a former environmental chemist, I love hearing about technologies that reduce our impact on the environment as well as provide companies with a competitive advantage. I recently learned about one such technology. Ozone International, one of Lytron’s customers, manufactures environmentally-friendly ozone-based cleaning and sanitizing systems for use in the food and beverage industry. Unlike chlorine, ozone is considered safe for direct-food contact applications and is not harmful to the environment. It is also more effective than chlorine at killing bacteria.
According to Ozone International’s website, their chemical-free systems reduce sanitation time, labor costs, hot water consumption, and harmful chemicals, while offering increased food quality and shelf life. The company’s system generates ozone onsite using ambient air and a small amount of electricity. The system takes in ambient air, filters the air so that only pure oxygen gas remains, and then passes the oxygen gas through a high voltage field. This high voltage field, like lightning, excites the oxygen gas to create ozone (O3). The ozone gas is then injected into a low-pressure stream of cold water, and this ozone-infused water is then distributed throughout a processing facility via PVC or stainless steel piping.
So where do Lytron’s thermal solutions come into play? Lytron’s 6105 tube-fin heat exchangers are used to cool the air from the compressor that feeds the oxygen concentrator. Do you use a Lytron product for your green technology? Please let us know!
WhiteWater System Image Courtesy of Ozone International
6105 Tube-Fin Heat Exchanger
