The Swedish ozone generator supplier, Primozone, has been awarded further more funding. This time for a project for removal of dye and harmful substances from wastewater from the textile industry. The project has been funded by Tillväxtverket – the Swedish agency for economical and regional growth.
Primozone has received funding to build a mobile pilot scale ozone system for installation on textile industry sites around the world.
“The aim is to find about 10 textile dyeing plants where we can install our pilot system” says Arash Golshenas, Head of R&D at Primozone. “Proving our concept on several different locations is important – the water and the pollutions can have very different characteristic and we want to find out what works best on each site”.
To further lessen the environmental impact of the pilot installations the aim is to build a very compact system that is mobile and easy to transport from location to location.
Studies show that ozone is both an efficient an environmentally friendly way to remove dye and harmful substances from textile wastewater. Today a variety of techniques are used to try to treat the textile wastewater. It is often done using chemicals and other substances harmful to the environment.
Textile companies are facing new legal demands as well as demands from customer to have an environmentally friendly dyeing process. Cleaning the wastewater with ozone is an efficient way to reduce its environmental foot-print and to be able to reuse the wastewater.
Wastewater reuse in the textile industry has proven to be economically favorable as raw water is a scarce resource and very expensive in many of the textile producing countries. Examples in Turkey show that the cost of using reused water is 95% lower than the cost of using raw water.
“This is the second project that we have been awarded funding for and of course it is recognition of our technology and knowledge in designing water treatment solutions for different applications”, says Anders Schening, CEO at Primozone. “The textile industry is huge and it is facing growing environmental requirements both from the market and from legislators. Our aim is to grow with the market and become world leaders in textile wastewater treatment”.
Primozone is the leading supplier of patented innovative ozone generators that generate far more ozone and use far less energy than the alternatives on the market. The products are highly efficient, energy efficient, reliable, easy to install and maintain, light and with a small footprint, quiet, and with a built-in flexible monitoring and control system, giving the customers more efficient and reliable water treatment, reduced operating costs and the lowest life cycle cost on the market by far.
About Primozone
The company’s product range consists of a series of ozone generator models, varying in size and capacity from 100 to 25000 g ozone per hour. Primozone offers complete systems for ozone treatment of water with ozone generators as well as ozone application know-how, system design, oxygen generators, compressors, mixing and tank systems, and control and monitoring systems.
Primozone’s customers are industries with wastewater treatment needs, municipal wastewater and drinking water treatment facilities as well as fish farms (aquaculture) using recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS). Primozone was founded in 2000 and has its head office, research and development, and in-house production in southern Sweden.