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Yes, I was thinking of you using it for maintenance only. It's like having a supplemental oxidizer like having an ozonator. It doesn't oxidize directly -- it's enzymes that accelerate oxidation from other oxidizers, particularly oxygen. So it can help to keep the water clear by oxidizing some of your bather load -- hopefully that which hydrogen peroxide doesn't do well on its own.Because enzymes are not consumed by bather load, you don't dose them proportionately. Instead, they get slowly oxidized by other oxidizers such as chlorine or hydrogen peroxide. So they need to be replenished at a constant rate independent of bather load.
If you add a lot of enzyme at once, you can get foaming. You can certainly try it both ways to see what works best for you. If you see the hydrogen peroxide demand rise you can add the enzymes and see if they help. Or you can do a regular maintenance dose and see if the hydrogen peroxide demand doesn't jump up.If the reason the hydrogen peroxide demand jumps up is due to a buildup of slower-to-oxidize organics (most likely from accumulated bather load) then if the enzymes are able to help oxidize (preferably with dissolved oxygen) those organics, that should cut down the hydrogen peroxide demand.
Hello all,I just spoke with the producers of these products (Oxygenia Process) and here is what I've been able to gather. Not being too chemical-savvy, I can only try and explain or repeat what was told to me. I guess the philosophy behind the treatment is that you maintain the water and avoid it from becoming contaminated, by using Crystal-O (a pure micronized silica mineral, or basically, powdered quartz). The quartz charges the water in a way that does not allow the pathogens to grow in the first place. Then, the hydrogen peroxyde product (29.4% stabilized hydrogen peroxyde) is actually used for shocking the water on a weekly basis, in an amount that maintains H2O2 levels at a minimum of 30 ppm. Their products have been in use in Europe since the early 2000s. Does any of this make sense ?
The disinfection efficiency against Escherichia coli in water of new silica-based materials containing aromatic photosensitizers (APS) was compared to that of TiO2 under UV irradiation.:While no bacterial inactivation took place in the presence of silica in the dark and in the absence of silica under UVA, a slow bactericidal effect was observed in the presence of pure silica under UVA.