Ozone. Unpleasant odour removal service.

 

 

 

Advantages of Ozone

 

• Ozone is the strongest oxidant and disinfectant available for the treatment of aqueous solutions and gaseous mixtures.

• After ozone oxidizes or disinfects, it decomposes into oxygen.

• Ozone reacts with a large variety of organic compounds resulting in oxygen-containing organic by-products.

• Although ozone is the strongest oxidizing agent commercially available, it is safe to handle. The primary reason is that it cannot be stored and, therefore must be generated and used on-site.

• Ozone in its gaseous phase is a proven deodorizer for a variety of odorous materials.

• Applying ozone to any medium (liquid or gaseous) does not add other chemicals.

• Ozone, by itself, does not affect pH (ozone can oxidize the contaminants which are causing a pH adjustment).

 

How Ozone Works

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. A healthy bacillus bacterial cell (waiting to ruin your day).

2. Zooming in closer, an ozone molecule (blue) comes into contact with the cell wall. The cell wall is vital to the bacteria because it ensures the organism can maintain its shape.

3. As ozone molecules make contact with the cell wall, a reaction called an oxidative burst occurs, creating a tiny hole in the cell wall.

4. A newly created hole in the cell wall has injured the bacterium.

5. The bacterium begins to loose its shape while ozone molecules continue creating holes in the cell wall.

6. After thousands of ozone collisions over only a few seconds, the bacterial wall can no longer maintain its shape and the cell dies.

 

As a comparison based on 99.99% of bacterial concentration being killed and time taken, ozone is:

• 25 times more effective than HOCl (Hypochlorous Acid)

• 2,500 times more effective than OCl (Hypochlorite)

• 5,000 times more effective than NH2Cl (Chloramine)

Furthermore, ozone is at least ten times stronger than chlorine as a disinfectant. Chlorine reacts with meat forming highly toxic and carcinogenic compounds called THMs or tri-halomethanes - rendering meats lesser quality products. THMs were also implicated as carcinogens related to kidney, bladder, and colon cancers. Chlorine also results in the production of chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, and chloromethane besides THMs. On the other hand, ozone does not leave any trace of residual product after its oxidative reaction.