The Ozone Journal had a great 2011. We continue to get more traffic and more readers. As we near the end of the year we spend time looking back at the year. Our most popular post was our April Fools post. Yes, sorry to burst the bubble of you youth seeking beer drinkers, this was a hoax…
Researchers nearing the conclusion of a five-year study on human aging announced Friday that they may have found a cure. In fact, a scientist involved with the study, who spoke on condition of anonymity, claims that early results seem to show that consuming certain brands of beer treated with ozone may actually reverse the aging process altogether.
We are commonly asked how to measure output or verify that an Ozone Generator produces the amount of ozone the manufacture claims. This tech sheet will cover how to measure the output of your high concentration Ozone Generator.
hour (g/hr), also known as ozone output. The ozone measurement instrument will read percent by weight (%), or grams per meter cubed (g/m3), also known as ozone concentration
This evening marks the last work day of another great year. 2011 was an exciting year here at Ozone Solutions. We made new friends, solved new problems, and encountered new adventures. Here are a few of our highlights:
We sold turn-key ozone systems in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Ireland, Nigeria, Philippines and, Ghana along with a few I am sure I forgot
We hired 5 new full time employees
Purchased the land next door for future building expansion
3 employees had new babies!
1 employee got married (technically he will get married tomorrow, congratulations Daniel!)
Sales increased over 2010 giving another great boost in sales volume
We have enjoyed serving our customers, and working with our vendors. We thank all our customers and vendors for another great, successful year in the ozone industry.
As we near the end of another year, we would like to sincerely thank our customers for their business over the last 12 months and wish you all a very Merry Christmas and God’s Blessings for the year to come!
Recently the FIRST Lego League from Le-Mars Iowa competed and finished well enough to qualify for the state competition in Ames, IA, in January 2012. If you remember recently we posted a news article about this. Watch the video below to view their award winning skit.
Researchers in Canada say their new disinfection system may change the way hospital rooms, and perhaps hotel rooms, worldwide are cleaned.
Dr. Dick Zoutman, chief of staff at Quinte Health Care, and Dr. Michael Shannon of Medizone International at laboratories in Innovation Park, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, said the new disinfection technology also killed bed bugs.
The new technology involves pumping a mixture of Medizone-specific ozone and hydrogen peroxide gas into a room to sterilize everything — including floors, walls, drapes, mattresses, chairs and other surfaces. It is far more effective in killing bacteria than wiping down a room, Zoutman said.
The city of Cottonwood could be drinking its reclaimed wastewater in 15 or 20 years, said Dan Lueder, the city’s head of development.
Actually, he nearly crowed this point.
“It looks like this is going to be the future of water re-use in Arizona,” Lueder said.
Cottonwood got into the drinking-water-production business in 2005, and it just happened to be sitting on a tax for big public projects that had accrued over about 20 years.
So Cottonwood plans to build an $8 million, solar-powered plant capable of breaking apart many trace synthetic compounds by blasting them with ozone and hydrogen peroxide.
The facility will likely have higher energy needs, but they’ll be met mostly or entirely by the sun.
But in Cottonwood, the water will next be sent into a winding system where it gets blasted with hydrogen peroxide and ozone, something called “advanced oxidation” treatment.
Ken Knickerbocker is engineering that part, and it will be capable of reducing chains of organic compounds.
“It will attack them and essentially break them down,” he said, without the chemical byproducts that now result from some disinfectants, like chlorine.
ppm, ppb, g/m3, mg/l, and many others. What do these all mean? And what do they have to do with ozone? Why do scientific papers have to be so confusing? Let me try to help, keep reading.
ppm = Parts per Million – Is a concentration measurement. This would indicate how many parts of the gas in question (ozone in our case) there are in every 1 million parts of total gas. For example, if we state there is 1 ppm ozone, that means for every 1 million parts of gas, 1 of these is ozone. The tricky thing with ppm is that we can be measuring the “parts” by volume, or weight. Sometimes you may see this as ppmv, indicating parts per million by volume. This is the most common ozone measurement. ppm is used to measure ozone in air and ozone dissolved into water.
ppb = Parts per Billion – This is to indicate the same thing as ppm, only change the million to a billion. This moves a decimal p
oint 3 places. for example 0.1 ppm = 100 ppb.
mg/l – Milligrams of ozone per Liter – Is a concentration measurement. This indicates how many milligrams of ozone there are in one liter of total volume. mg/l can be used to indicate the concentration of ozone in gas or liquid.
1 mg/l of ozone = 1 ppm of ozone in water. Due to the density of air this is no longer true and 1 ppm of ozone = 2140 mg/l. This is a common term used to measure the amount of ozone dissolved into water.
ug/ml – Microgram per millileter - Is a concentration measurement. This indicates how manymicrograms of ozone there are i
n one milliliter of total volume. mg/l can be used to indicate the concentration of ozone in gas or liquid.
1 ug/ml = 1 mg/l – these terms are equal, no conversion is necessary
g/m3 = Grams of ozone per Cubic Meter – Is a concentration measurement. This indicates how many grams of ozone there are in one cubic meter of total volume. This can indicate volume of a gas or liquid. g/m3 is most commonly used to measure the concentration of ozone in a gas stream.
1 g/m3 = 1 mg/l = 1 ppm of ozone in water
1 g/m3 = 467 ppm of ozone in air
% by weight (Percent by weight) – is a concentration measurement. This indicates the percentage (%) of ozone within a given gas stream. This is a very common method to illustrate the concentration of ozone from an ozone generator. This is more complicated than g/m3 as the weight of gas changes if it is air, or oxygen gas that the ozone gas is mixed with.
1% Ozone = 12.8 g/m3 Ozone in air
1% Ozone = 14.3 g/m3 Ozone in oxygen
g/hr (gm/hr) – grams of ozone per hour – Is a measurement of ozone production. This is the most common method of measuring the output of an ozone generator. We can measure the concentration of ozone in g/m3, then when we calculate for flow rate with a measurement like LPM (liters per minute) we can determine how many grams of ozone are produced in one hour of time.
mg/hr – milligrams of ozone per hour – This indicates the same thing as g/hr only on a smaller scale. Smaller ozone generators may be rated in mg/hr.
1 g/hr of ozone = 1,000 mg/hr of ozone production.
lb/day – Pounds per Day – Is a measurement of ozone production. This is a common measurement of ozone production of much larger ozone generators. This is a common term to use for large ozone generators, and is commonly used in some industries within the ozone world.
1 lb/day of ozone = 18.89 g/hr ozone production.
Ozone production can also be displayed in kg/hr, kg/day, or many other measurement, these can all be simply converted for easier understanding for all parties.
If the work of calculating the output of an ozone generator, or the dosage rate of ozone into water is too much for you, please, use our online calculator to help you out.
“An experimental treatment that involves spinal injections of ozone gas and steroids relieved painin over two-thirds of 327 people with back problems related to a herniated disc.”
“Still, ozone therapy could even help many patients with unrelenting back pain to avoid surgery, Lehnert tells WebMD. Before the treatment, patients had tried everything without success and were considering an operation, he says.
Studies suggest that ozone therapy works by reducing inflammation, shrinking herniated discs, and relieving pressure on the nerves bringing pain signals to the brain. The steroid further reduces inflammation.”
Ozone Therapy for Back Pain
Ozone therapy was developed In Italy. It’s been used to treat thousands of lower back pain patients, mainly in Europe, in recent years.
Lehnert says he added the steroid to reduce inflammation because 50% of the pain is due to inflammation in the herniated area.
Young people will compete with food safety ozone idea
(Sentinel photo by Joanne Glamm) These students use a skit to present their food safety research on pork. Portraying "pigs" concerned about their health are (from left) Chance Irwin, Claudia Probst, and Renae Zynda who listen as "reporter" Kara Albrecht interviews Morgan Boehme acting as Iowa State University researcher Dr. H. Scott Hurd.
“No more salmonella!” “No more salmonella!” chant three local young people dressed as pigs in skit with a type of Occupy Wall Street protest about food safety.
Claudia Probst, Chance Irwin and Renae Zynda, of Le Mars, are among eight young people who will showcase their research on food contamination Saturday at East High School in Sioux City.
The local students will compete in a regional tournament with other northwest and western Iowa teams by presenting a skit, demonstrating the skills of a robot and answering a challenge.
The competition is part of an international program, FIRST LEGO League.
An ozone forum exists at www.ozoneforum.com to discuss all ozone related topics. This form has existed for some time, however some issues in the forum formatting caused difficulties in posting and signing up. I am happy to announce this has been repaired and the forum is now easier to use than ever.
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