River Catchment Systems Water Treatment Solution
Drinking Water Treatment - Hydrogen Peroxide Pre-oxidant Application.
Introduction
The use of hydrogen peroxide as a pre-oxidant in municipal water treatment is well documented and has been practiced for over 20 years. Historical applications of H2O2 in drinking water has been for taste and odor control, hydrogen sulfide removal, iron removal and ozone enhancement/destruction.
With the EPA Stage 2 Disinfectants and disinfection By products Rule (Stage 2 DBPA) coming into effect, more recent emphasis has been on the reduction of the formation of total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and haloacetic acids (HAA5).
TTHM and HAA5 Reduction:-
Stage 2 DBPR is put into effect to reduce potential cancer, reproductive and developmental health risks from disinfection by-products (DBPs) in drinking water.
Research on the use of H2O2 for this application is documented as early as the 1970's, with actual implementation in North American Municipalities over the past several years. Recent water plant applications have demonstrated positive results in reducing TTHM and HAA5, as well as improving taste and odor control reduction. In addition, some waste plants have recently documented significant reductions in TTHM and HAA5 by the use of H2O2 in doses as low as 0.5 mg/L. Other benefits such as algae control and taste and odor improvement have also been documented.
The use of H2O2 for TTHM and HAA5 reduction does not require expensive capital projects so it can be easily integrated into existing water plant operations. This allows H2O2; to be full-scale pilot tested so that its benefits can be documented under a plant's specific conditions. This is a crucial step since all source water varies in organics make-up, therefore individual plant results with the use of H2O2 may vary at each plant.
Taste and Odor Control:-
Surface water often contains objectionable taste and odor compounds. Many of these can be treated with H2O2. In a study conducted in the late 1980's*, H2O2 was equally or more effective than potassium permanganate (KMn04) for the removal of various taste and odor compounds.
Ozone Applications:-
H2O2 can be used to enhance the performance of ozone systems for organic oxidation such as taste and odor compounds and THM (trihalomethanes) precursors, or for quenching of ozone residuals near the end of the contractors.
* "Evaluating Oxidants for the Removal of Model Taste and Odor Compounds from a Municipal Water Supply",W.H. Glaze, R. Shep, W. Chauncey, E.C. Ruth, J.J. Zarnoch, E.M. Aieta, C.H. Tate, and M.J. Maguire, Journal of AWWA. May 1990.
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Large Scale Water Purification & Irrigation:
🔬 Oxygenated water (hydrogen peroxide) falls to earth in rain and snow. It acts as a natural disinfectant in lakes, rivers and oceans. If it were not for the hydrogen peroxide in rainwater, the earth's surface would be putrid from bacterial overgrowth. Clean fresh spring water, glacial melt and fast flowing streams all have relatively high amounts of hydrogen peroxide.
Hydrogen peroxide has also been found in many parts of the healing springs of the world, including Fatima in Portugal, Lourdes in France and the Shrine of St. Anne in Canada. The water in Lourdes is purported to contain hydrogen peroxide.
Agricultural Uses.
Hydrogen peroxide is being used in various ways to increase the growth rate and productivity of plants. Mushroom farmers find hydrogen peroxide a cheap and efficient way to promote mushroom growth and protect mushrooms from harmful spores. Farmguard Products of Minnesota reports that non-bearing fruit trees are able to produce fruit when given water containing hydrogen peroxide. Non-productive rice paddies in Japan were able to bear crops after being irrigated with water mixed with hydrogen peroxide. Hydrogen peroxide is also used by farmers to make an effective nonpolluting insecticide in the field and can be used by home garden enthusiasts as a spray for home and garden plants. ("Hydrogen Peroxide Uses in Agriculture", Glencoe, Minnesota, Farmguard Products)
As an inexpensive way for farmers to purify drinking water, hydrogen peroxide can be added to drinking water for farm animals. In addition to serving as a catalyst for promoting oxygenation of the blood and killing harmful viruses and bacteria, hydrogen peroxide added to drinking water helps to eliminate worms and other parasites from the intestines. Food grade hydrogen peroxide is also used to rinse milk cans and bulk tanks to destroy bacteria and other pathogens. It is diluted with water and used as a spray to clean barn walls and floors. Hydrogen peroxide mixtures are used to clean wounds and wash the udders of cows, which results in a lower bacteria count in their milk. When given to dairy cows, it can increase both the milk production and its butterfat content. One farmer relates his experience with hydrogen peroxide: "In 1990, I was administering hydrogen peroxide to a dairy herd, at 30ppm, added to their drinking water. All the water on the farm was treated, so it was also in the cleanup water, etc. The cows became extremely healthy. Bacteria counts dropped and butterfat went up. Those two criteria convert immediately to money for the farmer. He is paid more for his milk the very next pickup. So, I started taking it myself."
(Letter from Randall Prue to Oxytherapy.com, March 15, 1996)
Concentration added to sanitize water supplies by many farmers:
30 parts per million = 0.003%.
Concentration needed to disinfect swimming pool or hot tub:
30-100 parts per million = 0.003%-0.01%.
Concentration recognized by the Code of Federal Regulations as safe to add to milk during the making of cheese:
500 parts per million = 0.05%.
Concentration recognized by the FDA as safe to add to fish eggs in order to prevent fungal growth 500 parts per million.
Concentration for internal use 500 parts per million.
Concentration used to "shock" a swimming pool: 875 parts per million = 0.0875%.
Concentration (purported) of the healing water at Lourdes:
2,500 parts per million 0.25%
Foot soak using 3 gallons of water and one quart of 3% (35% hydrogen peroxide diluted to 3%) 2,500 parts per million = 0.25%.
Concentration of drinking water fed to experimental animals to successfully treat tumors: 4500 parts per million = 0.45%.
Concentration often recommended by health practitioners in "purging" protocols: 5,000 parts per million = 0.5%.
"The most common cause of human death worldwide is waterborne disease. What we need to do is continuously put a harmless, weak solution of food grade peroxide into all water before it is used for drinking. Doing this would eventually kill almost all waterborne [pathogens] inside and outside the body. What would happen to these anaerobic viruses and bacterial if they were to be completely surrounded, or flooded, with a very active, energetic and aggressive form of oxygen.... slowly and harmlessly introduced into the body on a daily basis, over the course of a few months? What if we eventually evenly saturated all the bodily fluids and cells with it? Wouldn't the disease causing microbes that can't live in oxygen cease to exist?"
(Ed McCabe, Flood Your Body With Oxygen, 2003, ISBN 0-9620527-2-8)
Chronic and Acute toxicity: No chronic systemic or local effects from exposure to hydrogen peroxide are known. It has no known acute systemic toxicity. (Please insure proper dilution - author added)
Http://blog.storemasta.com.au/hydrogen-peroxide-storage-and-handling-requirements
Hydrogen Peroxide - "Medical Miracle" by Ross, R.Ph. Pelton, Lee Overholser.
Background - As far back as the early 19th century, hydrogen peroxide was widely used in medicine. Many bacterial diseases, including syphilis, responded to H2O2 when no other treatment was effective. In the early 20th century H2O2 was used to treat several common diseases, such as typhoid fever, cholera, ulcers, asthma, whooping cough and tuberculosis.
IMPORTANT - Hydrogen Peroxide is VERY FIZZY. Avoid contact with hydrogen peroxide - it turns your skin white. Flush with water immediately. Your skin will recover.
Must be diluted before use.
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