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Problem solving through physical water treatment with Aqua-4D®

Agricultural water conduits are sensitive to pathogenic Biofilm settlements. In wells with induction pipes, pumps and water reservoirs there is no hermetic sealing. The settlement of Biofilm takes place already in the induction pipe and gets carried on by the water flow. Little notches and holes in the pipes and recipients induce the infiltration so that Biofilm can grow from fixtures (feeding nipple, water basin, ect.) into the pipes. This is the reason why even systems run by city water have the same Biofilm problems as in the own home borehole.

The Aqua-4D^® water physical treatment system developed in Switzerland by Planet Horizons Technologies treats the cause of the problem at its source with the elimination and the prevention of the creation of Biofilm.

In fact the physical water treatment inhibits the deposit of organic material on the conduits walls, whichever material they are made of (steel, PVC, glass, etc.). The existing biofilm detaches itself and all new creation of biofilm becomes impossible.

Planet Horizons Technologies (PHT) developed for this purpose a specific standard device Aqua-4D®, which has been used and proven to work in farms for over 10 years. The equipment consists of one high-tech controller (Command 60 or Command 360) and one or multiple pipes (Tube 60 or Tube 360 according to water flow), with two integrated copper inductors, which modify the electromagnetic character of water.

The suppression of limescaling in the pipes has also an influence on biofilms. This one loses grip, because the surface is smoother than before, at the same time this part of the nutrition disappears. The necessary conditions for Biofilm reproduction and settlement disappear.

Elimination and prevention of biofilm

1) The existing biofilm is detached. The structure of the water at the interface of the biofilm is modified.
2) The biofilm will not attach any more thanks to the modification of the interactions forces at the interface.

Interaction of proteins with surfaces and liquids

The appropriate electromagnetic treatment affects the molecular interaction in the water: Effect on the hydrophilicity/hydrophobicity behavior, dilution capacity, ionic interactions (Zeta-Potential), but especially the size and shape of the water cluster, which encloses the protein and sits on the surface area. The consequence is that the extracellular matrix development of the Biofilm produced protein cannot adhere to the pipe walls anymore. The existing Biofilm dissolves and it also prevents the development of new Biofilm.