Does anyone have thoughts and or experience with the Ozone/Chlorine combo units that are on the market? DEL TrioPure is one and Prozone also makes one. Sounds interesting.
Thanks
Farn
Thanks
Farn
chem geek said:Thanks for your feedback. Your situation is what I would normally expect. Ozone breaks down organics so chlorine doesn't have to so in theory should lower chlorine usage. If anything, the ozone could convert some chloride to chlorine (it is known to convert bromide to bromine). I'll have to look at other things going on in such pools/spas to see where the chlorine usage is coming from and have the people turn off their ozonators to see if the chlorine usage drops. Glad to know it works for you.
You know, I just had a thought and that was that some ozone systems use UV to generate the ozone. In that scenario, the UV could break down the chlorine. Do you have any idea how your ozone system works? If it's from corona discharge rather than UV, then perhaps that explains the difference. I would have expected the UV to expose air that created ozone injected into the water and that the water itself would not get exposed to the UV, but perhaps some designs don't do this.