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> "Glenn L." <lango77@ADJUNCTS.optonline.net> wrote in message
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> > "Sam Anderson" <voltaic@ou.edu> wrote in message
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> You may be surprised to know that many municipal water systems now use[/color]
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> as their primary treatment in place of chlorine. My local water district
> (serving almost 2 million residents) expect to complete its conversion to
> ozone by 2007. It's not as uncommon as you think. You can buy home ozone
> generators for air treatment for as little as $200. Small systems[/color]
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> of treating water at 10 gal/min are also available, as well as systems for
> treating home well water. Do a quick Google search for "ozone water
> treatment."
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> Also, you don't have to "buy" bottled ozone. Its reactive and unstable.
> You generate it from air or oxygen (O2). My HotSprings hot tub has an
> ozone generator that is used to treat the water in place of low level
> chlorine. Works great, and has run for 4 years with no maintenance.
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It has been a long time since those college courses, so I am not surprised
that the technology has advanced to this point. I wasn't aware of the
changes.

Getting back to the original post, would this be a viable option for
sanitizing brewing hardware? It sounds like ozone generators are able to
sanitize water effectively (probably helpful to rinse chlorine from a
carboy). But, could you pump the ozone into a carboy or bottle and get the
same effect?