UV Resources
UV Resources
As the market leader in UV water treatment technology with the largest installed base in the world, providing water confidence to our customers is important to us. The following are resources that can be viewed or downloaded to further enhance your understanding of UV technology.
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Fact Sheets, Wastewater
Designing for UV Dose Accuracy Through Reactor Validation
The UV dose delivered by a reactor is the key parameter used to confirm proper UV system sizing for a specific application. Theoretical estimates of equipment performance (e.g. using UVDIS 3.1 software) are prone to overstating the ...
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Fact Sheets, Wastewater
Comparing the Environmental Impact of Disinfection Technologies
In recent years, there has been increasing concerns regarding the carbon footprint of municipal infrastructures. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a tool that can effectively be used to investigate the impacts of a product in a holistic ...
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Drinking Water, Fact Sheets, Wastewater
UV Basics
What is Ultraviolet (UV) Light? How does UV light work? Get the basics with Trojan's simple overview poster.
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Fact Sheets
Building Water Confidence in a Changing Climate
As a key resource, water must be managed wisely. This includes proper allocation, use and reuse of water resources. Water management will require selection of environmentally sustainable technologies, focused necessarily on efficacy ...
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Fact Sheets, Wastewater
Public Health & Environmental Advantages of UV
Disinfection using UV light is simple, safe, effective and chemical-free. UV treatment creates no carcinogenic disinfection by-products that could adversely affect the quality of downstream drinking water supplies. Unlike chemical ...
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Fact Sheets, Wastewater
Cost Advantage of UV
UV disinfection is cost-competitive with chemical treatment when all factors are considered. UV eliminates the current safety threat of chlorine gas without creating new, longer-term costs (e.g. harmful disinfection by-products ...
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Environmental Contaminant Treatment, Fact Sheets
Endocrine Disruptor Compounds - Emerging Contaminants
The public has become increasingly aware of the presence of chemicals in the water supply. In addition, research has provided growing evidence that many chemicals and mixtures of chemicals potentially present in our environment may ...
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Environmental Contaminant Treatment, Fact Sheets
1,4-Dioxane - Emerging Contaminants
1,4-Dioxane ...
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Environmental Contaminant Treatment, Fact Sheets
Pesticides - Emerging Contaminants
The use of pesticides to control unwanted pests dates back hundreds of years. Early pesticides were mainly inorganic chemicals such as calcium arsenate, lead arsenate (both now banned in the United States), and fluoroorganic compounds. ...
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Environmental Contaminant Treatment, Fact Sheets
NDMA and Other Nitrosamines
The nitrosamine group, a group that includes N‑nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), has attracted increased attention from the water treatment community as potent and potentially wide-ranging water contaminants. While their presence ...
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Environmental Contaminant Treatment, Fact Sheets
Taste and Odor Compounds in Drinking Water
The primary sources of taste and odor problems in drinking water are algae and bacteria. However, other anthropogenic sources such as wastewater discharges and chemical spills also act as sources of chemicals that cause off tastes ...
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Environmental Contaminant Treatment, Fact Sheets
Algal Toxins Fact Sheet
Compounds produced by cyanobacteria (“algae”) blooms continues to be a major concern for municipal drinking water suppliers. These blooms can produce toxins that are known to cause chronic and or acute health effects ...
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