Legionella Prophylaxis in Drinking Water Systems
Sustainable Solutions with Modern Technology
Drinking water supply is a hygiene-sensitive area that constantly poses challenges for you as a hotel operator, owner, landlord, administrator and operator of public services. Germs and contamination can become a health as well as an economic problem that must be taken seriously. To prevent this from happening in the first place, sustainable drinking water treatment – also with regard to health and environmental protection – is urgently recommended.
Avoid Exceeding Threshold Limits
There are numerous legal requirements for the use of drinking water that must be complied with at all times. In addition to the total bacterial count, these also include the legionella limit values. Therefore, sustainable precaution is essential. If legal requirements are significantly exceeded, effective remediation is necessary.
Legionella – Health-Threatening Germs in Drinking Water
Numerous operators of buildings and swimming pools as well as property and hotel owners have already had to deal with them: Legionella. These are rod-shaped bacteria that feel at home in water-carrying systems. A single Legionella in drinking water is harmless and completely normal. However, if the environment offers optimal conditions for the proliferation of these bacteria, Legionella can develop into a serious problem for the users of the drinking water as well as for the operators of these systems.
These persistent bacteria can cause life-threatening lung diseases and are particularly dangerous for immune-compromised persons. If the Legionella concentration increases significantly, they must be removed from the drinking water in all cases – which often involves high costs and immense technical effort. But there are alternative methods of comprehensive drinking water treatment.
Innovative Drinking Water Treatment – Sustainable and Environmentally Friendly
There are various approaches to safely operate drinking water systems. If conventional physical and chemical strategies do not lead to the desired success of a permanently compliant drinking water quality, parts of the system and sometimes the entire installation system are usually replaced. Our team has developed innovative solutions for drinking water treatment with the following features:
- Simple – in the use
- Sustainable – in its effect
- Cost-efficient – in continuous use
The use of a MOL catalyst not only significantly reduces the use of aggressive chemicals, but also efficiently and gently removes impurities caused by germs, rust or limescale. Whether organic or inorganic deposits, the MOL catalysts offer the ideal solution for every area of application for a permanently compliant drinking water quality.
Legionella Prophylaxis in Swimming Pools
Even when using a German Institute for Standardisation (DIN) compliant water treatment process, biofilm formation can under certain circumstances occur in the pipeline system of the bathing water of swimming pools, fun pools and whirlpools. The requirements for health protection and bathing comfort have increased steadily in recent years. The use of fewer chemicals is clearly favoured and required (by the bathers).
Ordinarily used filter units and adsorption media, however, present a growth opportunity for biofilms. This is associated with the risk of the occurrence of Legionella. To prevent this, frequent changes of adsorbents, especially activated charcoal/hydroanthracite, and, if necessary, intensive chlorination are necessary. This is associated with increased expenditure, whereby the hazard potential is not fundamentally reduced.
MOL technology offers you, as the operator, an economically and sustainable approach: germs and Legionella are deprived of their preferred habitat and, at the same time, the formation of chlorine by-products that pose a health risk is reduced.
In analogy to nature and using the latest findings from semiconductor technology, special metal catalysts are used for this purpose. These are inserted into the pipeline system at a suitable point.
