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Chemical Free Water Treatment

Chemical Free Water Treatment

Chemical Free Water Treatment

(OP)
Have anyone of you have heard about "Bac comber" chemical free water treatment technology? If so does anyone have any feedback on their application on large industrial systems.

So far I have found they have some source of experience on the residential field. FYI, I have been approached by a company who claims this technology can replace my actual chemical treatment on the Cooling Towers. It uses Ultra Low Frequency Waves and it claims to control scaling, oxidizing, and biofilm

Thanks
QApollo

RE: Chemical Free Water Treatment

QApollo:

This smacks of the endless magnetic - electronic water treatment scams that have been discussed to exhaustion on this and other ng-Tips forums. I would certainly ask your contact for an in-person viewing of this "technology", and an explanation of why, if it is so remarkable, the cooling tower industry hasn't imbraced it fully and put the chemical suppliers out of business.

If I sound extremely skeptical, I am because there is no sound technical basis for the process.

Orenda

RE: Chemical Free Water Treatment

Please post the website or contact info for the 'technology' that "uses Ultra Low Frequency Waves and it claims to control scaling, oxidizing, and biofilm."
 -- This pseudoscientific babble is often quite amusing!

ULF radiation is unlikely to react with anything in your water.  This fact enables the US Navy to communicate with submarines submerged in seawater worldwide from an ELF transmitter in northern Wisconsin.
An application problem:  ULF has extremely long wavelength (inverse to frequency), so the Navy uses a transmitter antenna 14 miles long. However, whales and giraffes communicate over long distances with ULF soundwaves, so a resonance chamber (larynx) maybe will work.

Several other problems:  "The deep boreholes for the grounding system, are up to 3.2 km (2 US miles) down in the Laurentian Shield [ancient bedrock]. The US Navy ELF transmitter facilities are believed to have an input power of 3 MW. As the efficiency of the antenna system is rather low, the predicted ERP is only 3 Watt (!)."  -- http://www.vlf.it/trond2/below10.html
See also
Extremely Low Frequency Communications Program http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/c3i/elf.htm
Very Low Frequency (VLF)http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/c3i/vlf.htm

For general low frequency info and links (some out-of-date), see The world below 535 kHz http://www.qsl.net/sv1xv/lw.htm
 
Weird science: The legendary Bigfoot supposedly communicates using Ultra Low Frequency (ULF), so perhaps hire him/her/it to solve your water problems!!!
http://www.bigfootforums.com/index.php?act=Print&client=printer&f=1&t=2291

RE: Chemical Free Water Treatment

and I own the toll rights to the London Bridge.

Richard A. Cornelius, P.E.
WWW.amlinereast.com

RE: Chemical Free Water Treatment

It is the same old electromagnetism and the orientation of Calcium ions ..... aragonite and calcite and blah...blah...blah

Quote (website):

The BacComber electromagnetic generator produces a specially desi- gned time varying electromagnetic wave through the inductor coil unit. When water passed through the inductor coil unit, water molecules and calcium ions are "excited". This resulting in three remarkable effects

QApollo,

Don't fall prey to it.

RE: Chemical Free Water Treatment

(OP)
Thanks you all for your feedback, specially bimr for the valuable link. I have now my own conclusions

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