Water-IQ is a privately owned company which supplies disinfection and allied equipment to the water, wastewater and swimming pool industry in South Africa.

The company has more than 30 years experience in the water industry and in conjunction with its principals in Europe is constantly creating new, advanced products to keep pace with stringent ecological requirements.

It utilises equipment which maintains the quality and bacteriological purity of water by adding chlorine, bromine or hypochlorite, which are common sanitary, ecological and economically efficient water disinfectants.

Equipment is designed in cooperation with the customer. After a problem has been defined, a preliminary design is prepared by water-IQ. A systems component are mainly of serial manufacture, but the system itself is always designed to overcome the customers’ problems. The installation of a system is usually simple and rapidly accomplished because it has been carefully prepared and tested in advance.

Equipment has been designed and manufactured by our principals with the latest state-of–the-art materials and manufacturing techniques to ensure optimum levels of dosage with minimal chemicals and power consumption, and therefore minimal impact on the environment.

In the late 1990s, there was a great surge in the interest of on-site generation. There is very little danger, if any, that on site generation could produce any situation that could be classified as a ‘major leak’. Moreover, current on-site generation systems produce chlorine solutions containing 0.6 to 0.8% chlorine and storage of this concentration of chemical is not classified as hazardous, so these systems start off with a ‘clean bill of health’.

Operating personnel are very favourably disposed towards these systems because the operation of this equipment does not require any special training in the use of hazardous material.

Water-IQ has supplied and installed over 30 units to a major municipality in KwaZulu-Natal and currently there are approximately 150 units in operation in South Africa and neighbouring countries, in the water and wastewater sectors.

We offer the following products and services to the water industry:

• Control matik Chlorine Gas Dosing Systems for aggressive gases and fluids
• Envir-o-Cell on-site sodium hypochlorite batch systems suitable for producing 0.8% sodium hypochlorite
• servicing, repairs and installations of disinfection equipment
• Dosapro Milton Roy chemical dosing systems for disinfection and allied applications, metering pumps and microprocessor controlled dosing pumps
• chemical products for water and wastewater, i.e. LiquidAlum, Polyelectrolytes, granularchlorine, liquid 12% sodium hypochlorite, etc.
• suppliers of Hanna Instruments products, such as pH meters, conductivity/TDS meters, turbidity meters, dissolved oxygen meters, etc.
• suppliers of in-line sediment filters and replacement elements
• training programmes for hazardous chlorine installation and allied equipment
• suppliers of Ozone disinfection systems for wastewater treatment.

Envir-o-Cell 2.75®

On-Site Sodium Hypochlorite generators

System overview 2.75kg/day

The Envir-o-Cell system is a safe and simple process for the on-site generation of sodium hypochlorite solution through the electrolysis of a brine solution. A 3% brine solution is made in a tank by dissolving 30 g of salt per litre of water. The Envir-o-Cell is placed in the brine solution and the timer is set to the required reaction period. The cell is energised via the transformer/rectifier, for the set time period. The DC current supplied to the cell causes the dissociation of NaCl (salt) in H₂O (water), which allows for the formation of available chlorine as sodium hypochlorite in solution.

Hydrogen gas is a by-product of the process and is safely vented to atmosphere. The electrical system is protected by a circuit breaker.

The water hardness (calcium and magnesium in the water) will vary from area to area and may cause calcium and magnesium deposits to form on the cell. For this reason, periodic inspection and cleaning of the cell with acetic acid (vinegar) will be necessary. The cleaning process is quick and simple.

Contact details:

Tel: +27 (0)39 975 3870

Cell: +27 (0)82 573 4524

-mail: wateriq@mweb.co.za

Website: http://wateriq.co.za/