An apparatus is configured to introduce ozone into water. The apparatus includes an ozone source that is configured to provide ozone. The apparatus further includes an air pump that is operatively coupled with the ozone source to provide an air stream mixed with the ozone at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure. The apparatus further includes an ozone distributor pneumatically coupled with the air pump to introduce the ozone-mixed air stream into the water. The ozone distributor includes a porous tube set in a tortuous configuration.

Systems and methods for creating an oxidation reduction potential (ORP) in water for pathogenic control are described. The systems and methods generate an oxidation reduction potential that provides pathogenic control of the solution as well as pathogenic control of the surfaces with which the solution comes in immediate contact. The system also provides purified drinking water to a tap or an ice making machine.

Provided is an ultrafine bubble generation device. A device 10 includes a rotary blower 31a, a rotary mixer 11, and a bubble shear filter 21. The rotary mixer 11 includes a hollow part 13 including a vertex X inside, an inflow hole 12 for introducing a fluid and a discharge hole 16. In an inner wall surface of the hollow part 13, a groove 14 having a spiral shape for the fluid introduced from the inflow hole 12 is provided, and the discharge hole 16 is provided away from the vertex X of the spiral shape on an axis of the spiral shape. The bubble shear filter 21 is provided with a hollow part inside, and includes an inflow hole 24 for introducing the fluid into the hollow part, and a discharge hole 26 for discharging the fluid. The hollow part is tubular, a plurality of plate-like thin plates 22 and 23 are arranged perpendicularly to a central axis of the hollow part such that the central axis passes through a center point of each circular plate, adjacent thin plates are provided with a plurality of openings and a plurality of pointed end portions, and a pointed end portion 25a and an opening 25b of the adjacent thin plates are arranged to face each other.

The invention provides an injector device for a water treatment apparatus, and a method of use. The injector device comprises a first coupling for fluid connection to a source of liquid to be treated; and a second coupling for fluid connection to at least one liquid treatment vessel arranged to expose liquid in the vessel to ultraviolet radiation in an advanced oxidation process reaction. The device comprises at least one injection port for injecting at least one gas into a liquid flowing through the injector device. The injector device is at least partially formed from a material that is transmissive to ultraviolet radiation. In another aspect, a water treatment apparatus defines a plurality of parallel flow streams between the inlet of the apparatus and the at least one liquid treatment vessel. The injector device comprises an injection port for each of the plurality of parallel flow streams.

Provided is a method for manufacturing a microbicide having high microbicidal performance for eradicating microbes. This method for manufacturing a microbicide comprises: a step for preparing an inorganic aqueous solution containing an inorganic component having seawater as a raw material thereof, an ozone mixing step for mixing ozone into the inorganic aqueous solution, and a stirring step for stirring the inorganic aqueous solution mixed with ozone and passing through a bubble generation nozzle; wherein, the temperature of the inorganic aqueous solution in the ozone mixing step and the stirring step is 0° C. to 30° C., and when the amount of inorganic aqueous solution treated in the ozone mixing step and the stirring step is defined as X liters and the treatment rate of the ozone mixing step and the stirring step is defined as Y liters/minute, then the microbicide is manufactured by alternately repeating the ozone mixing step and the stirring step for A.Math.X/Y minutes (where A is 30 or more).

A method is provided for producing fine-bubble water by resonance foaming and vacuum cavitation, and a device for manufacturing each of ultra-fine-bubble water of hydrogen gas having a reducing radical function, ultra-fine-bubble water of air and oxygen gas having an oxidizing radical function, ozone ultra-fine-bubble water having a sterilization function enabled by ozone, and fine-bubble water of nitrogen/carbon dioxide gas for increasing the ability to preserve the freshness of raw agricultural products, livestock products, and marine products.

The disclosure provides an ozone contact tank, which includes a water inlet gallery (1), an aeration gallery (2), a water distribution zone (3), a reaction zone (4) and a water outlet trough (5) which are disposed according to the intake order and are communicated in sequence; the top of the water inlet gallery (1) is communicated with the top of the aeration gallery (2); the bottom of the aeration gallery (2) is communicated with a water inlet end of the water distribution zone (3) via a narrow passage (6); the top of the water distribution zone (3) is communicated with the bottom of the reaction zone (4) via a perforated plate (41); the top of the reaction zone (4) is communicated with the water outlet trough (5). The disclosure also provides an ozone contact method using the ozone contact tank, which can greatly improve the disinfection effect.

Systems, devices, and methods are presented for optimizing the formation of gas nanobubbles in a disinfecting solution. In an example system for treating contaminated water, a centrifugal pump draws the water from a reservoir and circulates the water in and through a circuit of elements including a mixing chamber in the pump, a pressure vessel, a backflow valve, a Venturi injector, and a pair of nozzles immersed in the reservoir. The system injects ozone-rich gas into the fluid to produce an aqueous solution containing a volume of gas nanobubbles. The nozzles release the gas nanobubbles into the reservoir, creating highly reactive compounds that destroy organic compounds and other contaminants in the water.

A transportable system for creating an oxidation reduction potential (ORP) in water employs a pipe assembly for in-line mixing. The pipe assembly includes a first flow path for water to flow through. The first flow path includes one or more ozone intake ports that are fluidically coupled to one or more ozone output ports of an ozone supply unit. The pipe assembly further includes a second flow path fluidically coupled in parallel with the first flow path. The second flow path includes a control valve that selectively permits a portion of the water to flow through the second flow path to produce a negative pressure in the first flow path so that ozone is drawn into the first flow path through the one or more ozone intake ports and mixed into the water flowing through the first flow path.

A spray atomizing ozone water generating apparatus with gas storage ability includes a gas-water mixing chamber with atomizing water nebulizer, a delay circuit, as well as a tap water inlet valve and an ozone water outlet valve controlled by the delay circuit. Because the mixer has ozone storage ability, atomizing water nebulizer will atomize tap water sufficiently, ozone water generating apparatus according to the invention can thus produce super high concentration ozone water having a concentration more than 30 ppm.