Check out the EcoSmart Filter, and meet the people behind the system’s innovative design, at the upcoming WEFTEC Water Quality Show in Chicago, IL on October 19-22. (booth #31177). To schedule a meeting with Hydro(gen) Innovations at the show, please contact us.
Read More...Regional water officials have decided to issue violation notices to 20 cities and Los Angeles County, threatening them with tens of thousands of dollars in daily fines for repeatedly polluting Santa Monica Bay, the beach playground for millions. The move is the culmination of a decades-long effort to clean up the area’s bacteria pollution. In [...]
Read More...You work diligently to protect your building from fire. You install a quality sprinkler system with state-of-the art piping and heads. You conduct regular inspections. Then a fire breaks out and your system fails.
The tiny, but very aggressive cause may be hidden inside your pipes: bacterial microorganisms that cause corrosion known as Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion. [...]
Pipe failures resulting from microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) have been widely recognized in petrochemical, gas and nuclear power industries, but only recently has this phenomenon been associated with failures in fire protection systems (FPS). MIC results in mechanical blockages of piping and sprinkler heads, as well as through-wall penetration of ferrous and non-ferrous metals. FPS [...]
Read More...BRIGHTON, Co.- Feb 14, 2002 - Bacteria Eating Fire Sprinkler Systems? Stranger then science fiction, it has been found that certain groups of bacteria actually cause internal corrosion in fire sprinklers. “Actually, it has been an issue within the petroleum and water treatment industry for a long time. The process is called MIC (Microbiologically Influenced [...]
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