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Facility ManageMent

Zero-chemical surface &

water treatment systems

How can food processing facilities reduce the resources and time

spent on cleaning and wastewater treatment? Harish Anantharaman,
MD, Accelerated Cleaning Systems India Pvt Ltd (ACS) explains.

he quality of water plays 60%, hot water by up to 100% and most water treatment plants, using
a major role in the food treatment time by 20-30%. NAO nanobubble ozonation systems as
manufacturing process. has or rather leaves no byproducts; a pretreatment or post treatment
It also ensures the right it turns back to oxygen and water. process saves a lot of space and
Tdischarge standards or What it effectively means is better gives excellent reduction in
parameters to meet pollution results, using less resources and parameters like Chemical Oxygen
control norms. time. This pays for the investment Demand (COD), Biological
Whilst most manufacturers put a in NAO systems itself in a very Oxygen Demand (BOD) and Total
lot of effort into, and are willing to short time. Suspended Solids (TSS) in one
spend a lot of money on the process Less water and chemicals down single process, using almost a
water, the attempt has always been the drain means less loads on the negligible amount of chemicals.
to manage the post-production treatment plants, which makes Nanobubble equipment
wastewater using the least amount it easier to achieve pollution consumes very less footprint and
of resources and costs. Some plants discharge norms at optimised costs. takes very less time for installation.
also suffer from lack of space and NAO is an FDA-approved, It requires no major change in
obviously, space for manufacturing USDA-approved, FSSAI-approved, working patterns or process. It pays
is always a priority rather than for Green Seal-approved cleaner and for itself in months.
wastewater treatment plants. sanitizer. It has also been classified ACS has been the pioneer in
In most of the food as a food additive, which means nanobubble technology systems
manufacturing processes, cleaning no rinsing post washing. Washing and is the only one in India to offer
and sanitisation or rather, CIPs or vegetables and fruits with NAO and have installed both institution-
COPs generate a major portion of would increase their shelf life and based NBT systems for hygiene
the wastewater. quality immediately. and huge industrial systems up to
3
Replacing water with Nanobubble Oxygen treatment 40 m per hour for water treatment.
Nanobubble Aqueous Ozone systems are now also being used Clients like Shell, BARC, UPL and
(NAO) in the cleaning process for aeration of treatment tanks DELL have all discovered a new,
could help reduce chemicals by to save energy and get more in sustainable and carbon-friendly
up to 60%, water requirement by less time or enhanced results. In way to treat and clean.

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