TwinOxide

TwinOxide solves epidemic problems in India

  • The use of TwinOxide enables governments and plant operators to optimize their disinfection result with less chemistry, thereby bringing the water into potable limits for millions of people.
  • TwinOxide makes abandoning the use of hazardous biocides like chlorine possible when disinfecting drinking water, while improving drinking water quality and solving epidemic threats.


The project:
In this pilot project, the TwinOxide disinfection method was used for disinfecting drinking water and improving drinking water quality in three towns of Harya State (over 21 million inhabitants) in India in 2004. Later on it was extended to 24 other towns.

The results:
It was proven that TwinOxide solves epidemic threats and problems in three cases:
1) Hepatitis in Shahabad
2) Bacterial contamination in Jind
3) Smell problem in Ambala

Results have shown that TwinOxide reduced bacterial counts in water to non-detectable levels, and water turbidity decreased due to the disinfecting and oxidizing effectiveness. The smell and taste quality of water tremendously improved. And it solved many problematic cases of other chemical contaminants like iron, manganese, hydrogen sulfide etc. This success during the last five years in the state level application of TwinOxide created a scope of potential application of TwinOxide in the drinking water disinfection systems throughout India and beyond.

TwinOxideThe Technology:
Chlorine dioxide disinfection is an effective treatment to inactivate waterborne pathogens in drinking water systems without generating harmful byproducts, which has been proven by researchers worldwide.

Although chlorination has been a very successful water disinfection technique, chlorine in drinking water has been linked to a number of health problems. Since mid-1970s, formation of trihalomethanes as a result of chlorination of natural waters has been documented.

Trihalomethanes are possible human carcinogens as characterized and pose a potential human health threat. Unlike chlorination, TwinOxide generates no known carcinogenic disinfection by-products and does not have taste and odor repercussions.