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Recommended for water with high levels of bacteria, the AquaSmart™
RO System with Ultra Violet Light is a high quality system designed in Ireland for the quality of water in Ireland. It uses the best water purification technology in the world to purify your drinking water at your kitchen sink to provide crystal clear perfect water to and your family 24 hours a day, every day its advanced purification system eliminates 97.9% of contaminants contained in regular drinking water such as metals, chemicals, nitrates, fluoride, drug residues,and chlorine this unit allso destroy 99.9999% of bacteria in your water.
- Stainless Steel UV disinfection system destroys bacteria to a factor of 99.999%
- NSA 50 gallon Certified Membrane
- Stainless Steel reservoir
- Patented flow restrictor
- Jaco non leak fittings
- 3 Year parts warranty
Product Code:RO700x
RRP:€1200.00
Our Price:€490.00
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What is a Aqua Smart™ reverse-osmosis water filter?
The Aqua Smart reverse-osmosis filter system is an under-the-sink obstacle course, stopping nearly every contaminant that tries to take a ride up your cold-water line. It force water first through a 3 flashlight-size "pre-filters" that strains out sediment and chemicals and then through a cellophane-like membrane that screens out even smaller pollutants. Before reaching a special tap mounted on your sink, the now-clean water gets one last scrubbing from a carbon filter that removes any lingering chemicals picked up along the way.
Who is it best for?
Reverse-osmosis filtering is a good choice if you're concerned about a wide range of contaminants -- especially chemicals and heavy metals like lead -- and want the convenience and extra reassurance of drawing triple-filtered water directly from the tap.
Does an Reverse Osmosis unit remove the minerals form my water supply?
Yes a Reverse Osmosis system removes minerals from your water and leaves you with much the same mineral content as volvic water. The majority of bottled water in the world has a low mineral content, both coca cola and pepsi use reverse osmosis water in there bottled water brands in america. Water would not be a major source of mineral intake in a persons diet you would have to drink many litres of water to get the same amount of minerals as a half glass of milk.
How does a Ultra Violet system work?
It has been known for over a century (Schenk 1891) that the ultra violet wavelengths present in sunlight have germicidal effects. The practical utility of UV radiation for the control of organisms followed the devising of the mercury vapour lamp. This form of radient energy induces photochemical reactions involving biomolecules in micro-organisms. The resulting molecular alterations inhibit the growth of micro-organisms, and in higher concentration will kill them
The most common method of generating UV radiation is by discharge lamps. Typically, a glass or quartz tube contains an inert gas plus a metal, usually mercury. Electrodes located at each end of the tube, may be cold or preheated. In either case an ignition voltage is required to begin the discharge.
What is in Ultra Violet bulb?
Lamps are based on mercury / argon mixtures these exhibit the highest efficiencies and are the best performing bulbs.
During discharge, particularly at low pressures, mercury atoms in their excited states radiate mainly at wavelenghts of 184.9nm and 253.7nm resulting in the generation of UV light.
UV-C is used primarily to destroy organisms. The 253.7nm light emitted by low pressure mercury discharge lamps can inactivate micro-organisms such as Protozoa, Bacteria, moulds, yeasts, viruses, fungi and algae. It is this type of lamp that is used primarily in the UV disinfections of water.
How much bacteria will a Ultra Violet Light destroy?
UV disinfection system destroys bacteria to a factor of 99.999%.
What does it remove?
Typical Removal % rates:-
Sodium 99% Calcium 99% Magnesium 99% Potassium 98% Iron 99%
Manganese99% Aluminium 99% Ammonium97% Copper 99% Nickel 99%
Zinc 99% Strontitan 99% Cadmium 99% Silver 98% Mercury 98%
Barium 99% Chromium 99% Lead 99% Chloride 99% Bicarbonate98%
Nitrate 97% Fluoride 98% Silicate 98% Phosphate 99%
Chromate 99% Cyanide 95% Sulphate 99% Thiosulfate 99%
Ferro cyanide 97% Bromide 98% Arsenic 99% Selenium 99%
Bacteria 99% Protozoa 99% Amoebic Cysts 99% Giardia 99%
Asbestos 99% Sediment/Turbidity99% Perfluorooctane Sulphonate (PFOS) 99%
Bacteria 99.999%
What are its pros and cons?
A reverse-osmosis system offers these advantages: it creates a three-tiered barrier that few contaminants can penetrate, and it uses no electricity. Its main disadvantage is that it wastes two to four gallons of tap water for every gallon that gets filtered. The less reject water it generates, the shorter the life span of the membrane will be, because reject water helps keep the membrane clean.
How hard is it to install?
Any DIY enthusiast would be able to install this there is allso an online video you can watch which will explain everything you need to know.
How much does it cost to run?
Every year you'll need to shell out about €49 for a yearly filter replacement set (4 filters) and €89 per year for a ultra violet bulb replacement. Every 3 years you will need to change the Reverse osmosis membrane at a cost of €49.
How does Reverse Osmosis work?
To understand "reverse osmosis," it is probably best to start with normal osmosis. According to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, osmosis is the "movement of a solvent through a semipermeable membrane (as of a living cell) into a solution of higher solute concentration that tends to equalize the concentrations of solute on the two sides of the membrane.
A semipermeable membrane is a membrane that will pass some atoms or molecules but not others. Saran wrap is a membrane, but it is impermeable to almost everything we commonly throw at it. The best common example of a semipermeable membrane would be the lining of your intestines, or a cell wall. Gore-tex is another common semipermeable membrane. Gore-tex fabric contains an extremely thin plastic film into which billions of small pores have been cut. The pores are big enough to let water vapor through, but small enough to prevent liquid water from passing.
One way to understand osmotic pressure would be to think of the water molecules on both sides of the membrane. They are in constant Brownian motion. On the salty side, some of the pores get plugged with salt atoms, but on the pure-water side that does not happen. Therefore, more water passes from the pure-water side to the salty side, as there are more pores on the pure-water side for the water molecules to pass through. The water on the salty side rises until one of two things occurs:
* The salt concentration becomes the same on both sides of the membrane (which isn't going to happen in this case since there is pure water on one side and salty water on the other).
* The water pressure rises as the height of the column of salty water rises, until it is equal to the osmotic pressure. At that point, osmosis will stop.
Osmosis, by the way, is why drinking salty water (like ocean water) will kill you. When you put salty water in your stomach, osmotic pressure begins drawing water out of your body to try to dilute the salt in your stomach. Eventually, you dehydrate and die.
In reverse osmosis, the idea is to use the membrane to act like an extremely fine filter to create drinkable water from salty (or otherwise contaminated) water. The salty water is put on one side of the membrane and pressure is applied to stop, and then reverse, the osmotic process. It generally takes a lot of pressure but it works.
