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The ozone laundry system for commercial washers in hotels and nursing facilities can reduce hot water use by up to 80% with an average of 50%. The energy saved from hot water reduction can pay for a system within two years in most cases, and less than one year in many cases. Other benefits include whiter brighter, and longer lasting linens. Also, ozone provides superior bacterial control, especially MRSA.
Commercial, institutional and industrial laundries are designed to handle a wide range of fabrics that become soiled in a large number of ways. Such facilities handle linens and towels, pads, clothes, uniforms, and restaurant linen. In its role as a powerful oxidant and biocide, ozone eliminates or alleviates a variety of laundry problems. The equipment is market proven and offers large cost savings that have an immediate positive effect on the bottom line.
Although the properties of ozone have been known and studied since the mid-19th century, it is only during the last two decades that it has been applied in commercial and industrial contexts. Initially, circa 1906, ozone was used as a clarifying, deodorizing and purifying agent in drinking and waste water treatment plants in Europe, where it gained a level of acceptance over the years. In the late 1970's, its properties were investigated in the US by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA and various military installations. These studies confirmed the disinfecting and resource conservation benefits of ozone. Despite the broadened interest in ozone during the past two decades, it is only in recent years that interest has shifted to the utility of this substance for the commercial and industrial laundry industries. After several failures, technology has advanced to the point that ozone can be applied usefully and profitably in this context.
Ozone is a gas with a pungent odor that is formed by the breakdown of elemental, diatomic Oxygen (02) and the recombination of a percentage of the oxygen atoms into a triatomic molecule (03). Although normal oxygen, a component of the atmosphere, is a powerful oxidizing agent in its own right, ozone has much stronger oxidizing properties and reacts more quickly, often in fractions of a second, with a wide range of substances. In addition, it is one of the most effective biocides known to science, better even than chlorine, bromine and other commonly used disinfectants. Unlike the latter substances, however, it does not form hazardous disinfectant by-products (DBP's) such as dioxin and nitrites that are harmful to the environment or are toxic to animals and humans. |
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