"Glenn L." <lango77@ADJUNCTS.optonline.net> wrote in message
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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]
> ozone[color=green]
> > as their primary treatment in place of chlorine. My local water[/color][/color]
district[color=blue][color=green]
> > (serving almost 2 million residents) expect to complete its conversion[/color][/color]
to[color=blue][color=green]
> > ozone by 2007. It's not as uncommon as you think. You can buy home[/color][/color]
ozone[color=blue][color=green]
> > generators for air treatment for as little as $200. Small systems[/color]
> capable[color=green]
> > of treating water at 10 gal/min are also available, as well as systems[/color][/color]
for[color=blue][color=green]
> > 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.
> >
> >[/color]
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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.
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> 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[/color]
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> same effect?
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Yes, it is certainly possible. The small scale water treatment systems
first inject ozone into a water holding tank to sanitize, then do the
remaining treatments before use. One could adapt a small generating system
to ozonate a tank of water for use in brewing. The major issue would
probably be the cost, probably a few hundred to a thousand dollars for a
commercial system. But, as homebrewers are resourceful, there may be ways
to adapt lower-cost solutions or even make or put together a small-scale
system for much less.