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What is Ozone Laundry?
Ozone Laundry is a term generally used to describe a philosophy of textile care that uses electricity and oxygen in a unique way to replace many of the chemicals normally used in a traditional washing process. Oxygen and electricity are used to create ozone. Ozone is dissolved into water and applied to the wash wheel in place of the chemicals. This fundamental change to one of the major aspects of textile care comes with a litany of benefits that all serve to improve the efficiency and reduce operating costs of a laundry. Water Energy Ozone Laundry Systems greatly reduce the environmental impact of traditional laundry operations.
A quality finished product requires a combination of 4 things:
Water (hot & cold)
Chemicals
Time
Mechanical Action
Each of these factors must be applied in the proper combination. If you reduce one, you must increase others to create the balance needed to reliably deliver a quality finished product. By properly applying ozone, you can REPLACE many of the chemicals with ozone which is environmentally friendly and is made right on the spot. Therefore you can reduce the chemicals without having to increase something else because you’ve actually replaced them with something that works much better. So much better in fact that you can also reduce water and time and still have the correct balance to produce a superior finished product. The mechanical action is still critical to quality results.
Ozone Laundry Uses Cold Water and Oxygen
The underlying foundation of ozone laundry begins with a paradigm shift in traditional laundry fundamentals.
Old School
Hot Water
Alkali
Detergent
Acid
Bleach
Today
Cold Water
Ozone
Detergent
The big shift is realizing that you can achieve high quality standards without using all the hot water and chemicals. Ozone is a highly effective oxidizer that actually delivers multiple cleaning factors to your laundry process using only cold water.
In traditional laundry programs so much alkali and hot water are used that the wash water becomes very caustic and damaging to your valuable linens. Most chemical suppliers will tell you this is done to help swell the fibers of the cloth to release the dirt, etc. The fibers do swell but only as a result of the extremely damaging effects such a high pH has on the fabric. Acid must be used to neutralize the high pH before the wash process is complete. The truth about what is going on is that extremely high pH is required to bring about the creation of OH Radicals from water (H²O) molecules. One of the Hydrogen atoms gets ripped-off the water molecule and voila, you’ve got a Hydroxyl radical to do your ‘dirty’ work. With ozone laundry, you can create the same OH radicals with a pH of 8 in cold water containing dissolved ozone. It is a revolution.
Ozone works extremely well when properly integrated into your overall laundry regimen. There are many types of linens and many types of soil loading. The vast majority of dirty linens are sheets and towels with a minimal amount of soil and stains. Ozone is a powerful oxidant thereby a powerful bleaching agent. With a small amount of alkali, cold water and a little detergent, you can achieve cleaning and brightening equal to or greater than you would by using chlorine and hot water. This means that the overwhelming majority of your volume of linen can be processed with vastly less energy and chemicals while still producing a superior finished product.
Ozone is an unstable molecule and heat energy causes it to break down much more rapidly. The colder your water is, the more stable ozone is and the longer it lasts. In temperatures above 95-degrees, ozone looses all of its effectiveness because the heat causes the ozone to break down and come out of solution or off-gas. This is why for ozone to be effective it is must be used with water below 90-degrees. Actually, ozone mass transfer gets more and more efficient the colder the water gets, right down to freezing. In the context of ozone, mass transfer means getting ozone gas dissolved into water. The colder your water is, the better it is for you.
Ozone Laundry is a term generally used to describe a philosophy of textile care that uses electricity and oxygen in a unique way to replace many of the chemicals normally used in a traditional washing process. Oxygen and electricity are used to create ozone. Ozone is dissolved into water and applied to the wash wheel in place of the chemicals. This fundamental change to one of the major aspects of textile care comes with a litany of benefits that all serve to improve the efficiency and reduce operating costs of a laundry. Water Energy Ozone Laundry Systems greatly reduce the environmental impact of traditional laundry operations.
A quality finished product requires a combination of 4 things:
Water (hot & cold)
Chemicals
Time
Mechanical Action
Each of these factors must be applied in the proper combination. If you reduce one, you must increase others to create the balance needed to reliably deliver a quality finished product. By properly applying ozone, you can REPLACE many of the chemicals with ozone which is environmentally friendly and is made right on the spot. Therefore you can reduce the chemicals without having to increase something else because you’ve actually replaced them with something that works much better. So much better in fact that you can also reduce water and time and still have the correct balance to produce a superior finished product. The mechanical action is still critical to quality results.
Ozone Laundry Uses Cold Water and Oxygen
The underlying foundation of ozone laundry begins with a paradigm shift in traditional laundry fundamentals.
Old School
Hot Water
Alkali
Detergent
Acid
Bleach
Today
Cold Water
Ozone
Detergent
The big shift is realizing that you can achieve high quality standards without using all the hot water and chemicals. Ozone is a highly effective oxidizer that actually delivers multiple cleaning factors to your laundry process using only cold water.
In traditional laundry programs so much alkali and hot water are used that the wash water becomes very caustic and damaging to your valuable linens. Most chemical suppliers will tell you this is done to help swell the fibers of the cloth to release the dirt, etc. The fibers do swell but only as a result of the extremely damaging effects such a high pH has on the fabric. Acid must be used to neutralize the high pH before the wash process is complete. The truth about what is going on is that extremely high pH is required to bring about the creation of OH Radicals from water (H²O) molecules. One of the Hydrogen atoms gets ripped-off the water molecule and voila, you’ve got a Hydroxyl radical to do your ‘dirty’ work. With ozone laundry, you can create the same OH radicals with a pH of 8 in cold water containing dissolved ozone. It is a revolution.
Ozone works extremely well when properly integrated into your overall laundry regimen. There are many types of linens and many types of soil loading. The vast majority of dirty linens are sheets and towels with a minimal amount of soil and stains. Ozone is a powerful oxidant thereby a powerful bleaching agent. With a small amount of alkali, cold water and a little detergent, you can achieve cleaning and brightening equal to or greater than you would by using chlorine and hot water. This means that the overwhelming majority of your volume of linen can be processed with vastly less energy and chemicals while still producing a superior finished product.
Ozone is an unstable molecule and heat energy causes it to break down much more rapidly. The colder your water is, the more stable ozone is and the longer it lasts. In temperatures above 95-degrees, ozone looses all of its effectiveness because the heat causes the ozone to break down and come out of solution or off-gas. This is why for ozone to be effective it is must be used with water below 90-degrees. Actually, ozone mass transfer gets more and more efficient the colder the water gets, right down to freezing. In the context of ozone, mass transfer means getting ozone gas dissolved into water. The colder your water is, the better it is for you.
