Capabilities
SolarWind can:
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1. Eliminate and purify the discharge of animal
waste to surface waters and groundwater through direct discharge,
seepage, or runoff by treating at the source point.
2. Substantially eliminate atmospheric
emissions of ammonia.
3. Substantially eliminate the emission
of odor that is detectable beyond the boundaries of the parcel or tract
of land on which the swine farm is located.
4. Substantially eliminate the release
of disease-transmitting vectors and airborne pathogens.
5. Substantially eliminate nutrient and
heavy metal contamination of soil and groundwater.
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UNDER WATER PLASMA UWAPtm
UWAP PROCESS is the rapid discharge of a high voltage plasma underwater for the purpose of initiating a supercritical water oxidation chemical reaction. When used with ozone and/or peroxides, organic contaminants are incinerated underwater at a very rapid rate. The prototype used to deodorize hog sewage.
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We achieved the greatest success when both the UWAPtm and ozone were used simultaneously on the fresh sewage. When used synergistically, we see a nearly complete removal of color and odor. For example, after use together for 16 hours, we changed the color of the sewage from dark brown to light pink. We also changed the smell from a hog sewage smell to one similar to a fresh water aquarium. After several months of storage, the sewage odor remains eliminated. By contrast, when tested separately, each technology has only a slight effect on the odor and the color of the sewage as demonstrated in the September 17, 1998 photograph.
Future
testing will be aimed at the following:
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Improving the reaction rate of the process by varying the voltage and
number of discharge gaps.
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Increasing the addition rate of the ozone. For this test, about 3.75
grams per hour with a total dose of about 100 mg/l of ozone was added. This
compares to previously published reports of about 1 g/l needed to partially
deodorize hog sewage as reported by Michigan State University. See attached.
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Trying other oxidants such as peroxides.
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Further testing of a redesigned parabolic reaction chamber. This was used
to solve the mechanical failure problems while using “fresh” sewage. The
parabola worked by concentrating the UWAP shockwave away from ceramic high
voltage insulation components.
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Continued development of self-gaping plasma discharge devices.
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TOC, BOD and organic, gas, solid and liquid phase testing at various
steps in the process.
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A better understanding of solid, liquid and gas phase equilibrium
relationships.
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Adding an ultrasonically induced cavitation reaction step.
PHOTOGRAPHS
OF HOG SEWAGE SAMPLES
TESTING
AT IPKY, ELIZABETHTOWN, KY.
The
following three photographs are of the samples taken during the trial on
September 16 through September 18, 1998.
Process
Natural Light
The
photograph from the September 16 test with UWAP and ozone shows the before
sample on the left, the 1 hour sample in the middle, and the 16 hour sample on
the right. The photograph from the September 17 test with ozone only
shows the before sample on the left and the 16 hour sample on the right.
The photograph from the September 18 test with UWAP and ozone again shows
the before sample on the left and the 16 hour sample on the right.
During the September 18 test, one of three spark gaps malfunctioned
resulting in less clarification than the September 16 sample.
Originally
the 16 hour samples from the September 16 and September 18 tests had a pink tint
to them.
The tint is most likely from the bacteria that live in the pond and give
the pond a purple tint in the middle of the summer. The pink tint was gone in a
few days leading us to suspect residual reactions. We later learned the reaction
continues for 900M. The sewage odor has not returned to the 16 hour samples as
of December 21, 1998.
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