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Drinking Water Bottle Filler, Potable Water Bottling. Rinsing, Capping, Labelling

Complete System for Filling and Refilling Drinking Water Bottles for Commercial Use.

Our Turnkey ('Ready to Run') System:

• SAND FILTRATION
  A 12 micron particle size filters the water through sand removing dirt, sludge and other undissolved solids.
• ELEMENT FILTRATION
  Then a 5 micron element filter removing all undissolved solids down to 5 micron, and a final element filter then removes all undissolved solids further down to to 1 micron.
• REVERSE OSMOSIS
  This type of system produces one of the purest forms of water available, removing 99% of all contaminants and dissolved solids from water leaving behind almost only water molecules; rejecting all contaminants including bacteria and sodium. (Membrane pore size is 0.001 micron).
• CARBON FILTRATION
  Carbon filtration removes organic chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, chlorine and it's derivative the carcinogenic Trihalomethanes from water. Odours and unpleasant flavours are removed and the water tastes clean.
• UV PROTECTION
  The ultraviolet is the next pathogen control phase which sterilizes the water before ozonation.
• OZONATION
  Ozone is the final polishing phase and ensures no survival of pathogens bacteria viruses. The ozone treatment is essential for water bottling because it plays a multiple, beneficial role in the production of bottled water and assures a good quality, storage stable product. Ozone is the most powerful, chemical disinfectant available. It disinfects them all: the water, the bottle, the bottling equipment, the sealed cap of the bottle and any air borne micro organisms in the air space above the water. Furthermore, it improves, taste, eliminates odour and oxidizes undesirable organic and inorganic materials that might be present in the source water. Then, once ozone has done its job, it decomposes to harmless oxygen. Should you wish for an ideal disinfectant for bottled water, you could not dream of a better one than ozone.
  Your Fully treated OZONATED WATER is now ready for bottling/ storage/drinking.

Price of System:

There are no hidden costs or 'locked in' contracts, franchise complexities and costs.
We do hope you'll optionally service your equipment with us and replace filters/ consumables through us.
We can also supply a variety of plastic bottles shapes and sizes for you,  labelled or not.

See Here an example of 'compact' complete water purification Reverse Osmosis with prefiltration, ultraviolet and ozonation. For Hand/Tap ap bottle filling - Production 5625 litre/day. Location Bloemfontein City. (Emily Hobhouse , off Dan Pienaar Drive)

Cost: Pre-filtration skid and RO including UV & Ozone @ +/- R 160 000 (Using your own tanks & piping)

If you're in the Bloemfontein area pop in and try some top quality 'Cactus' (pharmaceutical quality) drinking water - Chilled - produced by 'RO3'

All our equipment is locally made and serviced - we also export our ozone equipment, globally.

Here's a sample of shapes in the 500ml size to choose from:

See Below for Blowing, Filling, Bottling and Labelling Systems

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More on Reverse Osmosis RO Water Treatment.

More on Ozone Water Treatment.

The ozone treatment enhances the water quality of most drinking water in general. However, it is a key and essential treatment for the production of safe, high quality, good tasting, aesthetically pleasing and storage stable bottled water that the consumers have come to expect. The development and adaptation of ozone treatment in the 1970’s resolved the troublesome and sometimes embarrassing problems with disinfection and storage stability and set the water bottling industry onto its decades long rapid double digit growth pattern. By the year 2001, the annual sales of bottled water exceeded 5.5 billion gallons and surpassed $ 6 billion dollars in the US. A discussion of the biological and chemical processes involved in the treatment are presented below.
Ozone treatment is the most frequently used disinfection process in water bottling today. With the application of a single ozone treatment step, the water bottler can disinfect the water, the bottling equipment, the bottle, the air above the water and the sealed cap of the bottle, thereby provide a most effective barrier to microbiological contamination for the protection and benefit of the consumer. These are the reasons why most water bottlers rely on ozone treatment to provide a safe, good tasting, aesthetically pleasing and storage stable product.
As the ozone treatment became a well accepted, routine part of the water bottling process, many of its other benefits beyond the disinfection have become taken for granted and nearly forgotten. Some water bottlers may not even realize today that the use of ozone also provides benefits, such as, improved taste, elimination of odour, and long 2 years storage stability. These benefits have improved their product substantially making it a good tasting and safe. These are the product quality features that the costumers have grown to expect and enjoy.

Reactions of Ozone
Once the ozone is dissolved in the water, it undergoes three simultaneous reactions. They are discussed below in detail.
1. Disinfection: The disinfection process treats the water against bacteria, viruses and parasites such as Giardia and Cryptosporidium. While many more details are available in the literature (1,3), it is sufficient to say here that ozone is a highly effective, general, broad-spectrum disinfectant. It is considered to be the most effective chemical disinfectant commonly available against all the above mentioned microorganisms. See Table III. The extent of the disinfection can be defined in terms of the Ct value. The Ct value is the product of dissolved ozone concentration (in mg/l) and disinfection time (in minutes). For the disinfection effect of ozone see Tables III, IV and V.
The relative disinfection effects, that is the values of the Specific Coefficient of Lethality of four disinfectants are shown in Table III on four microorganisms. The data in Table III indicate that ozone is 5-25 times more effective against bacteria, viruses, spores and cysts than the various chlorine type disinfectants, such as, hypochlorons acid, hypochlorite, or chloramine.
The Ct values proposed by the EPA for the disinfection of Giardia are displayed in Table IV. These data indicate the recommended Ct. values for the various degrees of inactivation under six temperature conditions.
The required Ct. values for 99% inactivation of six different microorganisms are summarized in Table V. The data in Table V provide the recommended Ct values for the selected group of four different disinfectants including ozone. In general, the disinfection by ozone requires significantly lower Ct. values than by the other three disinfectants covered. They are: chlorine, chloramines or chlorine dioxide. This fact is
due to the substantially more powerful disinfection effect of ozone.
2. Chemical Oxidation: Ozone is a powerful oxidizing agent. It is very effective in water treatment against essentially all taste and odour causing organic materials and oxidizable inorganics like iron, manganese and sulphide ion. Again, these reactions have been studied in great detail and are reported on in the literature. (4). The required ozone concentrations and reaction times are dependent on the type and concentration of the oxidizable pollutants present in the water and on the water quality. They should be determined experimentally in a treatability study.
3. Decomposition: ozone is an unstable compound under room temperature and near room temperature conditions and decomposes rapidly to oxygen. The decomposition rate is influenced primarily by water temperature and pH. The half-life of ozone at 20oC and pH 7.0 is typically 24 minutes in potable water. See Figure 4. In most cases there is ample time available for the ozone decomposition to take place before the bottled water is delivered to the consumer. Typically, 5-10 hrs should be sufficient. More specifically, the decomposition rate is dependant on pH, temperature and the type and concentration of inorganic salts present in the water.

Tables Ozone Inactivation of Micro organisms

 

Regulatory Oversight:

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has the regulatory and oversight responsibility over the bottled water in the USA. Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) under Section of Part 165 outlines the required physical, chemical, radiological and microbiological parameters for bottled water (5). The FDA automatically adopts the applicable improvements and changes in drinking water quality requirements set by the EPA. The IBWA standards are based on FDA and EPA regulations.
The FDA has granted GRAS status for ozone disinfection in November 1982. According to the FDA: “a substance added to the food (and water is a food) may be marketed without a regulation if it is one which is considered as
Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) by experts qualified by scientific training and experience to evaluate safety”. Thus, the FDA classified ozone as Generally Recognized As Safe” (GRAS) for use as a disinfectant for bottled water up to a residual dissolved ozone concentration of 0.4 mg/l.
Furthermore, the FDA has recognized ozone treatment to be a Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) for the bottled water industry. This regulation appears in Code 21 of Federal Regulations, Section 129.80 d.4 and first appeared in the Federal Register 11566, 12 March 1975. The minimum ozone treatment for GMP is “0.1 part per million (0.1 mg/l) ozone in water solution in an enclosed systems for at least 5 minutes.

Blow Mould, Fill, Bottle and Label Systems

3 -In- 1 Bottling, Capping and Filling Machines Inline

1) GPK12-12-6 Automatic washing, filling, capping 3-in-1 monoblock liquid filling machine

Larger unit, Bottle, Fill and Cap, Close Up

Blow Moulder Systems:

Double Bottle Blowing

Blow Moulder Station

10 000 Litre per Hour Reverse Osmosis System Complete

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