Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Highly Efficient Army Portable Water Treatment Units

By Anna Mitchell


Seawater desalination systems used to be heavy and difficult to transport, and they often required special transport. Another problem was that they simply could not treat any type of a source. Army Portable Water Treatment Units proved to be easier to handle, much easier to transport just about anywhere and much more effective in any situation.

Thanks to this new and innovative technology, other sources can be successfully used, including brackish water and even the one polluted with different chemicals, bacteria and so on. This might be of a great importance not only for military issues, but also wherever there is a problem with supplies, for example during floats, natural disasters or humanitarian crises in different parts of the world.

The first thing that cannot be neglected is the price of a bottled water used today. Using this innovative purifying system these expenses can be lowered to a minimum. In other words, using available sources, these costs will involve only the costs of a fuel spent and the chemicals that are used in the process of cleaning the equipment, plus the costs of a chlorine that is added in the final stage of the process, and this is all just a small fragment of existing expenses.

The method is simple and really efficient. The pump is used for extracting the water from the source, through the first strainer, straight into one collapsible tank made of fabric. These tanks are light, collapsible and easy to transport. The booster pump is then use to force it through the second, 200 micron strainer, toward the UF module. This all happens simultaneously.

The task of the UF module is to filter all kinds of particles, and this includes all types of microorganisms and different bacteria. Additional filtration through RO membrane will finally purify the liquid, producing clean and sanitized one. In the end, everything is additionally chlorinated, and the whole process is really fast and highly efficient.

This innovative purifying system has numerous advantages comparing to other similar fresh-water supplying solutions. Easy transportation is only one of these advantages, but really important one, considering previous experiences. The fact is that it can be easily transported and that it can produce purified water in less than 45 minutes on site, not to mention the fact that almost all available sources can be used.

When it comes to expenses, the difference is incomparable. Other purifying systems can reduce costs as well. For example, bottles can cost approximately 5$ per gallon, and using purifying system of the first generation can lower these costs on 1$ per gallon. Using this innovative system will make these costs significantly lower, on maybe 0,07$ per gallon, and this is a great difference.

Beside being so cost effective and easy to handle in different military operations, this purifying method could be really useful in numerous other occasions, for example in different humanitarian crises, in situations where emergency response is required and many others. The best thing is that all types of sources are suitable, even the ones that are seriously polluted, contaminated by chemicals etc.




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