Ozone water treatment technology is used for a variety of industrial applications. As an environmentally friendly and simultaneously powerful oxidant, it is suitable in many situations where pollutants or undesirable substances have to be efficiently eliminated without combining with or producing harmful by-products.
Industrial effluent wastewater may carry a broad range of contaminants, including BOD, COD, color, phenols, cyanides, sanitary waste and other complex chemicals. Ozone, in combination with other physical, chemical or biological processes, can treat complex industrial wastes due to its strong oxidative nature. Ozone oxidation breaks down organic molecules into smaller biodegradable components and in some cases to carbon dioxide.
In combination with other technologies, such as UV and peroxide, ozone is effective in destruction of difficult-to-treat organic compounds (organic removal). Industries that have benefited from ozone based advanced oxidation processes (AOP) include pharmaceutical, textile, chemical, automotive, foundry, landfill leachate, petroleum, etc.