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What is Ultraviolet Water Treatment ?

Ultraviolet (UV-C) water disinfection technology involves the physical treatment of water without chemicals. This type of treatment is one of the easiest and most effective ways to obtain pure water.

Ultraviolet (or UV) is an energy included in the electromagnetic spectrum, more precisely between X-rays and visible light. As a result, UV rays are note visible to humans although we are exposed to them with the sun every day.

UV water treatment systems use special lamps that emit a type C ultraviolet light. At a wavelength (254 nanometers), UV-C rays act effectively on most microorganisms present in water (viruses, bacteria, protozoa, etc.). They penetrate in harmful particles by directly attacking their DNA. Exposed to a lethal dose of UV-C light, microorganisms can no longer reproduce and are eradicated.

What Are The Advantages of Ultraviolet in Water Treatment?

Ultraviolet water treatment presents several advantages.

First of all, UV rays have not effects on physicochemical quality of water and do not affect its color, smell or taste. Water is just disinfected!

In addition, UV-C inactivates a wide range of microorganisms, including pathogens resistant to chlorine, without additional disinfectants.

Contrary to popular belief, ultraviolet water treatment does not present any risk to human health. This safe processing method benefits from an absence of corrosion and hazardous chemicals, and does not require any transport, storage or handling of toxic or corrosive products.

Another advantage: UV-C water treatment systems are easy to install and use and remain one of the most profitable on the market!

What Type of Water Can We Treat by UV?

All of them! Water from swimming pools or spas, from aquariums, urban water, industrial water, drinking water, ship ballast water, etc. Wherever water needs to be disinfected, UV-C can be used!

Specialized in UV water treatment for 20 years, BIO-UV Group is willing to provide quality water, perfectly disinfected and without risk to humans and environment.

Our Range of Solutions Dedicated to Water Treatment !

Urban and Industrial Waters

BIO-UV is aware of the huge urgent needs for water treatment around the world (nearly 1 billion people do not have access to drinking water; 2.5 billion people live in regions where the water is not safe to use), and has succeeded in innovating and adapting by diversifying its applications

BIO-UV offers high performance water treatment solutions by using the best materials and the latest technologies available for disinfection using UV-C.

Our services are :

Wastewater
REUSE of Wastewater
Saving and Recycling Water for Irrigation
Industrial Water
Legionella

Drinking Water

Simplicity, safety and savings

Thanks to the UV-C technology, BIO-UV offers you an effective, environment-friendly economical solution to make water from wells/boreholes/intakes safe to drink. UV-C disinfection for drinking water has many advantages, in the same way as the UV-C treatment for swimming pools or any other application :

Simple to deploy
It limits handling of chlorine and surveillance, and is therefore particularly suitable for rural municipalities that have different types of water resources
It disinfects untreated water and guarantees compliance with the bacteriological quality limits as defined by the applicable standards, before the water is distributed
It eliminates specific micro-organisms such as cryptosporidium and giardia
The physical and chemical characteristics of the water are not altered. The original taste and smell of the water are preserved, protecting the image of municipalities concerned to protect their environment
No UV-C disinfection by-product harmful to human health is created
UV-C disinfection is perfectly safe. Drinking water does not represent a risk (no risk of legionellosis, etc.)
Modest investment and economical to run. Water treatment is carried out in addition to existing filtering systems or use of chlorine

Finally, the BIO-UV water reactors are compatible with additional water management systems: filtering, softening, etc.

Residential Pools and Spas

Ultraviolet treatment for swimming pool water: effective and natural, quite simply without chlorine.

Choosing UV-C treatment for your swimming pool or spa water, means choosing an effective and entirely automatic disinfecting solution. No more manual treatment of swimming pool water. The system adapts to the previously installed equipment and is easy to maintain, saving you money and ensuring optimal bathing comfort.

Our services are :

Ultraviolet (UV-C) Pool Water Treatment System
Ultraviolet (UV) and Salat Water Treatment System with O'Clear
Water Upkeep

Commercial Pools and Spas for Professionals

In most countries, chlorine is still the mandatory disinfectant product for commercial pools and spas. However it generates chloramines which are harmful for both bathers and personnel.

In order to solve this issue using an appropriate UV-C swimming pool treatment, BIO-UV has been developing and patenting a specific range for dechloramination of spas and swimming pools in hotels, camping, fitness centers, thermal baths since 2003.

Chloramines or combined chlorine are responsible for respiratory infections and eyes irritation that affect lifeguards, sporting swimmers, baby swimmer. UV effect create the safest conditions again.

BIO-UV participates in the HQE approach: French acronym for High Environmental Quality. This is a voluntary environmental quality management approach for construction and building renovation operations.
Its aim is to:

control impact on the external environment
create a satisfactory internal environment

BIO-UV is a technical partner of the French Swimming Federation.

Our services are :

Functioning and Benefits of The Dechloramination
The UV Dechloramination
Installation, Maintenance Video Tutorial

Aquaculture, Aquariums and Fontains

BIO-UV offers a range of systems for the treatment of all basins: aquaculture, conchyliculture, aquariums and fountains.

Bio-UV UV-C sterilizers for treating fresh water, salt water and corrosive water function in the same way as all the BIO-UV disinfecting devices, i.e. by means of one or more water treatment lamps. UV-C treatment guarantees bacteriological quality of the water , helping prevent the development of pathogenic diseases and thereby contributing to the healthy development of fauna and flora.

Disinfection by ultraviolet rays, without any chemical product, protects the environment, clarifies the water by destroying algae and can be very easily adapted to existing installations.

BIO-UV water treatment ensures absolute user satisfaction. The treatment is natural and does not generate any harmful disinfection by-products.

Ballast Water Treatment

What Is Ship’s Ballast? What Are Ballast Water Used For?

Ships are designed with an optimal waterline that depends on shape and weight. The more weight you put in the ship, the higher the waterline will be on the ship’s hull.

Yet, the optimal waterline ensures safe balancing and prevents ship from keeling over.

Ballasts are huge water tanks located all around the ship in specific spots and allow to increase the ship’s weight in order to keep the optimal waterline.

So, ballast water is used for balancing the ship and maintain the waterline at its optimal level. When the ship has been loaded, if its overall weight is lesser than its maximum weight, ballasts need to be filled until getting in enough water to reach the optimal waterline.

Why Ballast Water Has To Be Treated? What Are The Invasive Species?

Ships are carrying water in their ballasts all around the world, they are ballasting (pumping out water) from one port and they are de-ballasting (discharging back to the sea) in a different port with a different marine eco-system.

The problem is, they are discharging invasive species. Those species are qualified as “invasive” as they do not have any predators in the environment where they have been discharged. So then, they are spreading and may cause huge damages (bridge collapse, pollution) but also diseases. For instance, in 1992, 20 000 people died after Cholera spreading related to a ship’s ballast water discharging.

In order to prevent such disaster and health issues, ballast water need to be treated before being discharged back to sea.

What Are The IMO Ballast Water Management Convention And The USCG BWM Regulation?

Before the IMO BWM Convention entered into force in 2017, there were no regulation frame in terms of ballast water. Since then, ships are required to be equipped with approved ballast water treatment system according the IMO BWM standards.

Since the USA have adopted more restraining standards than IMO, ships sailing in US waters need to be compliant with the USCG Ballast Water Management Regulation and therefore be equipped with an USCG Type Approved BWT system.

BIO-SEA Ballast Water Treatment System: BIO-UV Group’s IMO And USCG Type Approved Solution Combining Filtration And Ultraviolet Disinfection

BIO-UV Group has designed the BIO-SEA solution which is a chemical-free BWT system that combines mechanical filters and UV-C treatment. BIO-SEA system has been type approved by the IMO and the USCG (only a few competitors have these 2 certifications).

BIO-SEA solution can treat flow-rates from 30 to more than 2,000 m3/h automatically and cost-efficiently (energy-consumption is adjusted according to the quality of the water to treat). There is a quick return on investment. BIO-SEA ranges are simple to install and monitoring while being adaptable, compact, competitive and highly efficient.