Ozone: The new trend in pool cleaning

The fight against microorganisms that grow in swimming pools usually done with chlorine (Cl₂) or with chlorine compounds. Ozone: The new trend

The hypochlorous acid (HClO) that is formed essentially performs the work of disinfection, neutralizing microorganisms and destroying internal enzymes. Lately, however, pool disinfection using ozone, as a bactericide, is gaining ground and is becoming more and more popular.

Ozone: The new trend

The biggest advantage of ozone, when it comes to its use for cleaning the pool, is the fact that it causes less irritation to the eyes than the other ways used to disinfect the water. Ozone is a very strong – if not the strongest – oxidizing and disinfecting agent. It quickly and effectively destroys every microorganism it comes into contact with. However, because ozone gradually decays, to maintain safe sanitary conditions in a swimming pool, some small amounts of hypochlorite or chlorine must also be added to the water.

Characteristics of ozone

Ozone is an oxygen compound, which has a variety of uses. Thanks to its disinfecting action, it is extremely useful not only in medicine but also in industry.

Ozone is bactericidal, fungicidal and virucidal and also has important biological and medical applications. In the same way, ozonation is a water treatment done using ambient air and electricity, without the use of additives. The result is the production of water that is clean, odorless, clear and completely free of pathogenic microbes and chemical pollutants.

In general, we could say that ozone promotes health, is simpler and more natural than all the options available for water purification, and has tremendous cleaning properties.
Compared to traditional forms of treatment, such as salt, softeners and other filters, ozone offers continuous water disinfection and completely eliminates bacteria, metals and odors that "threaten" water every day.

Ozone: The new trend

It also acts at least 500 times faster than chlorine and since it turns back into oxygen at the end, it is completely natural and leaves no visible trace in the water after it has been treated.

Because ozone neutralizes bacteria, fungi, viruses and various toxic substances produced by factories and other industries, over 3,000 cities in Europe and around the world use it instead of chlorine to clean their drinking water and disinfect swimming pools (swimming pools) and public buildings and hospitals.

For this reason, it is now widely accepted that ozone currently remains the most suitable solution for cleaning pool water.

Ozone therapy

One of the original uses of ozone, as far back as the turn of the century, was for therapeutic purposes. In medicine, today, it is used as a mixture of oxygen and ozone (O2/O3) and is called medical ozone.
Owing much to its disinfecting action, it guarantees safety without toxicity or pharmaceutical interactions and does not cause allergic reactions, as long as the necessary rules of application are observed. THE  ozone therapy is considered a completely safe medical method. Even if an overdose happens, the only possible side effect is a slight dizziness or nausea.

For several decades, clinical experience has shown that medical ozone has immunomodulatory properties. Nevertheless, until the last years these indications had remained at an empirical level until the moment when a series of investigations by Bocci et al. they thoroughly examined its action on immune cells and gave us important insights into its mode of action.

According to another research, that of Shinriki et al. (1997), ozone appears to play an inhibitory role in platelet aggregation and action, interrupting the signal transduction of platelet activation and thrombus formation. The above conclusions are evaluated as particularly important, since a significant percentage of patients suffer from diseases of a vascular nature, which constitute an important field of application of ozone therapy.

Ozone: The new trend

At the same time, ozone therapy is considered extremely beneficial for the skin and cells, as it helps them to absorb oxygen, when the constantly increased concentration of impurities prevents the skin from breathing.

Drinking ozone-enriched water replenishes tissue oxygen stores and improves capillary oxygen chemistry.
Ozone, although oxidizing in nature, slightly increases the production of free radicals, but does not create oxidative stress. On the contrary, it activates the body's natural antioxidant systems more effectively, thus contributing to the limitation of biological oxidation, immune protection and overall better functioning

Finally, ozone offers exhausted patients a surplus of energy. Exhausted tissues recover with particular speed due to increased oxygen absorption. Elasticity increases and natural defenses against invaders and stress are strengthened. Consequently, all states of fatigue react positively to ozone therapy.

Sources

http://www.wikihow.com/Properly-Maintain-Swimming-Pool-Water-Chemistry

http://www.poolcenter.com/poolcare.htm