Environment
Environmentally friendly
Use of the new titanium coagulant increases efficiency and capacities of water treatment
plants and reduced overall cost of producing drinkable water. High effectiveness of the coagulant creates conditions for development of new technological processes for water
treatment. Safer chemicals are used at lesser dosages than current practices with Alum or PAX. The secondary pollution with aluminum or titanium and contamination with chloride
organic pollutants will be significantly reduced. Higher degree of absorption of the organic pollutants allows to eliminate the process of pre-chlorination and thus avoids the risks associated with chloride organic pollution. Accordingly, the process becomes ecologically safer while the quality of drinking water increases.
Harmless for humans
The titanium coagulant does not form dangerous by-products after chlorination, ultra violet treatment or treatment with ozone. This has been confirmed on enhanced biological tests. Toxicity of the titanium coagulant was studied on white rats, white mice, guinea pigs and rabbits. On average, the lethal dosage was established to be in the range from 10 g/kg (white mice) to 13.3 g/kg (rabbits). This data allows us to describe use of the titanium coagulant in water treatment as posing no danger to human health. The titanium coagulant virtually does not accumulate in the body, contact with it does not irritate the skin.
Health safety of Titanium Coagulant
Biological tests prove that titanium coagulant doesn’t forms hazardous substances under water chlorination, UV irradiation or ozone treatment. All titanium coagulant components will be present in water, treated with 15 mg/l coagulant dose, in concentration 3-10,000 times less their maximal permissible levels (except aluminum and titanium).The table shows that Titanium Coagulant lethal dose is greater of the same for aluminum and iron by two orders of magnitude.
Table 1. Comparative toxicity of various coagulants to haematherm under peroral dosing (in milligrams per kilogram of live weight)
| Substance | Animal species | LD50, mg/kg |
|---|---|---|
| Aluminum sulphate | Mice | 520 |
| Rats | 410 | |
| Guinea-pigs | 490 | |
| Aluminum chloride | Mice | 390 |
| Rats | 315 | |
| Aluminum nitrate | Mice | 370 |
| Rats | 280 | |
| Ferric sulphate | White rats | 533 |
| Titanium coagulant | White mice | 10020 |
| Rabbits | 13340 | |
| Guinea-pigs | 10800 | |
| White outbred rats | 11350 |