Food & Beverage Water
Overview of Food & Beverage Water
Doesn’t chlorine protect pool water?
Swimming pools are required to have residual chlorine. Chlorine reacts with various organic and urea compounds that enter the pool from swimmers’ body fluids, traces of after shaves, perfumes, makeup and other contaminants. Chlorine reacts with these contaminants. These complex chemical reactions form a group of chemicals called chloramines. The chloramines continue to accumulate in pool water.
Water is a key input in majority of food, beverage and industrial process plants. Often, additional water sources like borewell or surface water are used to augment municipal water supply.
Spoilage bacteria, yeasts, moulds, fungi, algae and other pathogens pose an ongoing threat to food manufacturers. In addition to product contamination, such microorganisms ruin the taste, flavour or smell and reduce shelf life of the food products.
Traditional chlorination can’t protect water from pathogens like Cryptosporidium and Giardia. Worse, even small amounts of chlorine quickly affects the taste and smell of water and also causes corrosion of food and beverage processing plant and equipment.
Sukrut UV offers reliable UV systems to protect your food and beverage grade water from all types of food spoilage microorganisms including bacteria, viruses, spores, fungi, cysts, oocysts, protozoa, algae and Chlorine-resistant pathogens like Cryptosporidium and Giardia.
Considerations
We generally recommend using high UV dose levels and factors of safety in beverage and food applications, because it is a matter of food and beverage safety and our customer’s reputation. Source of potential contaminants, specific UV dose requirements, peak flowrate of water, UVT and customer preferences affect UV system sizing for food and beverage plants.
Sukrut CWS™ Series is ideal for small to large flowrates of drinking water for packaged water bottling plants, beverage and food plants, commercial buildings, residential apartment buildings, hotels, hospitals and numerous industries.
Sukrut WEL™ Series are popular for economical disinfection of drinking water at large flowrates of drinking water e.g. in townships, apartment complexes, packaged water bottling plants, beverage and food plants, commercial buildings, large hotels, major hospitals and numerous industries.
Sukrut MCS+™ are designed to deliver high UV dose levels at varying levels of UVT and/or very large flow rates for municipal drinking water, large scale drinking water projects, 5 star hotels and resorts, speciality hospitals and large townships.
Considerations
Yes, Chloramines are used as disinfectants. However, a large number of scientific studies worldwide have proven that Chloramines cause breathing difficulties and are linked with various types of cancer. Children, senior citizens and those suffering from asthma are the most affected by breathing problems. Chloramines cause irritation of eyes, skin, breathing difficulties and worse.
Therefore, health authorities worldwide impose a limit on the chloramine levels in public swimming pools.
Typical “pool smell” indicates likelihood of presence of chloramines in the pool.
Indoor pools are particularly susceptible to Chloramines contamination of the air above the pool.
UV System for the Application
Reliable disinfection
You are welcome to take samples of drinking water before our UV system and then immediately after our UV system to verify the microbial reduction. Our team will be happy to help with this, so you know for a fact that your drinking water is well protected from diseases.
Easy to install and use
Our UV systems are very easy to integrate with drinking water plants ranging from small RO/filtration skids to large industrial and municipal drinking water treatment plants treating lakhs of liter per hour to a high quality.
Internationally proven quality
Our UV systems are Certified to WaterMark Level1 which is equivalent to NSF61. You know that you are getting the same quality product that is exported to demanding customers in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, South East Asia and Oceania.
Economical
The cost of disinfecting a liter of drinking water with our UV systems, in terms of Rs/liter of drinking water is extremely low.
Application support
Our experienced team will help solve your specific challenge and inactivate any specific microorganisms from drinking water.
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How to get rid of Chloramines and “Pool Smell” caused by Chloramines?
Powerful UV lamps used in Sukrut UV systems break down the molecular bonds in mono-chloramines, di-chloramines and tri-chloramines and reduce the chloramine levels in pool water and the air above pool.
Our UV systems destroy chloramines levels in pool water and THMs in air above indoor pools. We also offer high intensity polychromatic UV lamps with peaks UV intensities at multiple wavelengths. Sufficiently high UV dose breaks down the bonds between Chloramines molecules.
Our UV systems are used by public swimming pools in advanced markets like Australia, New Zealand and SE Asia where health authorities regularly measure Chloramine levels in public swimming pools.
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If you have any questions, or to discuss your application, you are welcome to contact our friendly team at
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