SBIR Phase I: Electrochemical Ozone Generator

该小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目将开发一种电化学臭氧发生器，用于处理饮用水和工业加工用水。在美国，85%的公共供水系统为不到3,300人提供服务。为了提供这些小单位的饮用水系统，三个国会调查结果突出了挑战。首先，小社区的税基通常较低，除非系统成本低，否则负担能力是一个挑战。其次，小社区通常没有技术专家来管理水消毒系统，因此提出了系统必须易于操作的挑战。第三，根据美国环保署第二阶段安全饮用水法案，2015年将禁止饮用水系统使用氯基系统。为此，Reactive Innovations，LLC提议开发一种电化学臭氧发生系统，该系统仅使用环境空气和直流电就能直接在工艺流程中产生臭氧。这项研究的更广泛影响是获得了一个强大的反应器平台，可用于小型和大型水处理工艺。2005年美国饮用水设备市场为1.15亿美元，复合年增长率为5%。除了产生用于水和废水消毒的臭氧之外，所提出的电化学臭氧发生器还可以应用于半导体制造、制药、食品加工和纸浆/纸加工的净化水系统。这些应用代表了全球水处理市场，预计到2015年将达到110亿美元。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop an electrochemical ozone generator to treat water for drinking and industrial processing. In the US, 85% of all public water systems serve fewer than 3,300 people. For providing these small unit drinking water systems, three congressional findings highlight the challenges. First, the small communities typically have a low tax basis making affordability a challenge unless the system is low in cost. Secondly, the small communities typically do not have technical experts to manage the water disinfection system thus posing a challenge that the system must be simple to operate. Third, the popular chlorine based systems will be outlawed in 2015 for drinking water systems according to the EPA Stage 2 Safe Drinking Water Act. To this end, Reactive Innovations, LLC is proposing to develop an electrochemical ozone generation system that produces ozone directly into a process flow stream using only ambient air and DC electrical power.The broader impacts of this research are a robust reactor platform is obtained that can be used for small and large scale water treatment processing. The US drinking water equipment market was $115M in 2005 growing at a compound annual rate of 5%. In addition to producing ozone for water and wastewater disinfection, the proposed electrochemical ozone generator may also be applied toward purifying water systems for semiconductor manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, food processing, and pulp/paper processing. These applications represent a worldwide water treatment market projected to be worth $11B by the year 2015.