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Meredith College Goes Green

Tom Sherry - Director of Operations at Meredith College in Raleigh, NC needed better control over the existing water treatment program protecting Meredith's 2600 tons of open loop cooling tower system and 3 - 300 hp steam boilers. Several traditional water treatment options were presented.

After significant research and site visits a decision was made to choose the non-chemical Bon Aqua program. The Bon Aqua water treatment program was chosen because it eliminates all corrosion and inorganic scale control chemicals, reduces biological chemical demand, reduces system water consumption and because it creates a scale free environment - saves energy.

There were local establishments with similar sizes HVAC equipment that had been successfully applying the technology for over 10 years. The Bon Aqua water treatment program supplies a steam-condensate, or an open loop water cooling process with flux density greater than 22,400 gauss, which in turn causes an electric current to be generated in the flowing water. According to physics, this creates a "Faraday's Generator" with the flowing water being the armature and the steel pipe being the field coil. An impressed current from a negative ground source supplies an infinite flow of electrons to the metal pipe and into the flowing water. Proper application of the Bon Aqua technology will cathodically protect the entire open loop water system.

In December of 2003 a partnership was formed. Consistent effort by Ron Johnson (Maintenance Manager) and Tony Alston (HVAC Technician) in managing the HVAC equipment and applying the concepts of the Bon Aqua program has:

1) Eliminated over 95% of the water treatment chemicals used at Meredith
2) Reduced water consumption by more than 5 - million gallons per year
3) Kept the heat exchange equipment scale and corrosion free - saving energy
4) Eliminated the discharge of toxic chemicals to the sewer-environmentally friendly

The steam boilers were opened for inspection after a year of Bon Aqua water treatment and were clean. Chiller - condensers have been opened and the tube bundles were scale free. Tony Alston learned the art of chemical water treatment in the Navy and has done an exceptional job managing the Bon Aqua program. Tony said; "the Bon Aqua program worked well and is as near a perfect water treatment system possible". "The Bon Aqua Program has done everything they said it would do".

Tom Sherry agrees. "This has been a good program for Meredith". Their HVAC equipment is protected from scale and corrosion. Re-occurring chemical costs have been eliminated freeing that money up for other projects. A safer working environment has been created for their employees that normally handle water treatment chemicals. Meredith not only saves millions of gallons of water per year but also no longer discharges used water treatment chemicals to the sewer.

Tom Sherry Director of Operations / Department of Facilities Services
Meredith College / Aramark Facility Services
sherryt@meredith.edu / sherry-tom@aramark.com
(v) 919.760.8011 / (fax) 919.760.2885

Mexico's Government Owned Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Selects Bon Aqua Treatment for Offshore Platforms

GREENSBORO, NC - February 22, 2002 - Bon Aqua International, Inc., manufacturer and worldwide distributor of the patented Bon Aqua water treatment system today announced that PEMEX, the government administered petroleum exploration and production company of Mexico has chosen the Bon Aqua treatment system, through our Mexican distributor Prasio S.A. de C.V., for use on the production lines of their offshore petroleum platforms to control scale encrustations and corrosion. PEMEX began testing the Bon Aqua system in August of 1998 on one of their offshore platform lines and completed installation on the platforms at Activo Pool Chuc, Region Marina Suroeste, Dos Bocas, Tabasco this past summer of 2001.

PEMEX's selection of Bon Aqua was based on actual beta field testing performed for several months to see what results could be expected by employing this method of treatment to solve the scaling (encrustation) problems so prevalent in drilling and transport pipe lines. This encrustation/scaling directly impacts the output production levels, which has far reaching effects for PEMEX.

The reliability and consistency of the focused magnetic amplification induced by the Bon Aqua process delivers the desired effects. As a result PEMEX can expect increased production volumes from all their offshore platforms that are being protected with this twenty-first century technology.

The engineers at Prasio S.A. de C.V. are working in conjunction with the PEMEX engineers to develop a program of incorporating Bon Aqua treatment in other areas of the PEMEX Exploration and Production Company. The leadership of PEMEX must be commended for their initiative and willingness to take every step necessary to improve oil production without harming the environment.

The actual testing results in Spanish, English translation, and a placement illustration are available for review. (Click on "back" button to return to web site from report)

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