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Mr Mark Watson
Director
PO Box 247
RIVERSTONE NSW 2765
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Aerocycle Environmental Solutions P/L
(formerly Heat Disinfection Technologies)
Aerocycle-AquaTherm Heat Disinfection
The use of recycled water to offset the national water crisis has been one of the most hotly debated issues in Australia’s water history.
With this in mind, a Sydney company has come up with a water disinfection system that uses high temperatures to pasteurise wastewater that can kill microbial species and viruses.
Director of Heat Disinfection Technologies, Mark Watson, said pasteurisation using heat was an accepted method of disinfection, however it had in the past been considered too expensive an option for treating wastewater. The Aerocycle AquaTherm heat disinfection system changes this.
“This technology reconfigures the pasteurisation process,” he said.
“We recover the energy used to heat the water, which dramatically reduces operating costs.
“Heat disinfection is the only system that can disinfect turbid water. Pretreatment/filtration is not a prerequisite for disinfection using the Aerocycle AquaTherm process.”
Mr Watson said that because the system did not use any chemicals, there were no consumables to replace, once it was in place.
“Also one of the benefits of heat disinfection is that if there is a problem (human error) in the plumbing, as has happened at other recycled-water sites, AquaTherm treated water has no pathogens and will not cause illness,” he said.
AquaTherm units can be built to specific needs and can vary in treatment times from 100 litres an hour to five million litres per hour.
Mr Watson said the potential market for this system was huge, and could include sewage treatment facilities, grey water, bore water, air conditioning towers, recycling for irrigation in rural areas, abattoirs, piggeries and cattle yards, public swimming pools, and disinfecting hospital wastewater.
The system could also be a huge help in developing countries that are currently crippled by polluted water supplies.
“We have had inquiries from Indonesia and other countries with serious water sanitisation problems,” he said.
“This could make a big difference in places like India, where six million people die from water-related problems.”
With this in mind, a Sydney company has come up with a water disinfection system that uses high temperatures to pasteurise wastewater that can kill microbial species and viruses.
Director of Heat Disinfection Technologies, Mark Watson, said pasteurisation using heat was an accepted method of disinfection, however it had in the past been considered too expensive an option for treating wastewater. The Aerocycle AquaTherm heat disinfection system changes this.
“This technology reconfigures the pasteurisation process,” he said.
“We recover the energy used to heat the water, which dramatically reduces operating costs.
“Heat disinfection is the only system that can disinfect turbid water. Pretreatment/filtration is not a prerequisite for disinfection using the Aerocycle AquaTherm process.”
Mr Watson said that because the system did not use any chemicals, there were no consumables to replace, once it was in place.
“Also one of the benefits of heat disinfection is that if there is a problem (human error) in the plumbing, as has happened at other recycled-water sites, AquaTherm treated water has no pathogens and will not cause illness,” he said.
AquaTherm units can be built to specific needs and can vary in treatment times from 100 litres an hour to five million litres per hour.
Mr Watson said the potential market for this system was huge, and could include sewage treatment facilities, grey water, bore water, air conditioning towers, recycling for irrigation in rural areas, abattoirs, piggeries and cattle yards, public swimming pools, and disinfecting hospital wastewater.
The system could also be a huge help in developing countries that are currently crippled by polluted water supplies.
“We have had inquiries from Indonesia and other countries with serious water sanitisation problems,” he said.
“This could make a big difference in places like India, where six million people die from water-related problems.”