| 22/11/2005 - Glowing First Birthday for UV Innovations |
GB Environmental Ltd, the company behind the introduction of second generation UV disinfection celebrates a successful first year in business.
A year since it first started trading, GB Environmental continues to draw upon its collective engineering experience to push the boundaries of UV disinfection technologies as far as they can go.
Continuing to bring to market new ways of using an existing technology to kill some of the most fatal waterborne micro-organisms, GB Environmental continues to find solutions to specific company problems. Where many organisations have focused on modifying customer systems to fit their product, GB Environmental is the complete opposite, providing bespoke solutions to waterborne bacterial problems, which are both practically viable and commercially sensible.
Dr Ron Mitchell, Managing Director of GB Environmental, explains why there is a market for GB Environmental’s patented second generation UV disinfection technology and what its key benefits are:
“It’s no secret that scientists have known about the germicidal waveband of UV ‘C’, which kills a range of pathogenic waterborne micro-organisms by disrupting their DNA chain, for a number of years now. However, first generation systems met with a mixed response, with maintenance and efficiency issues limiting the widespread embracing of the technology.
With the development of second generation UV equipment in the form of GB Environmental’s SafeGuard range, we’ve been able to introduce the technology to a number of companies, where we have been able to demonstrate significant cost savings.”
The introduction of GB Environmental’s SafeGuard range, has been specifically designed to eradicate the problems that first generation UV disinfection units had – namely inconsistent disinfection performance and a lack of means to keep the lamps clean. Each has a unique integral Tioxispring® cleaning system that provides continuous and efficient results.
This maintains the UV lamps in optimum functionality, requiring minimal maintenance with only the annual need for replacement. Even in the event of one lamp failing, the remaining lamps still provide the minimum dose for adequate disinfection.
The automatic cleaning and light management system ensures that the system is exactly what it purports to be – a highly reliable, low maintenance alternative.
With the latest control systems utilising high efficiency ballasts to ensure optimum lamp performance under all conditions, the SafeGuard range is able to disinfect effluents with transmissivity as low as 40%.
Malcolm Snowball, Technical Director at GB Environmental and one of the three scientists who discovered that certain wavelengths of UV light killed cryptosporidium, commented:
“The SafeGuard range of equipment has been designed and built with flexibility in mind, which is why we have been involved with companies across a variety of sectors over the past year. The SafeGuard range can be used in a variety of applications, as a stand alone or combined with other treatment processes.
Moreover, the SafeGuard range is much more economical than first generation machines, since its spectrally-enhanced amalgam lamps provide an alternative to the use of medium pressure lamps within the disinfection process. This means that significant cost savings can be made because they require less energy to operate. “
For further information on the various applications of GB Environmental’s UV disinfection technologies, please contact Dr Ron Mitchell on 01245 352277 or visit www.gb-environmental.co.uk. |
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