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BAUER ENERGY DESIGN
Who is Bauer Energy Design Inc.?

Bauer Energy Design Inc. is a Canadian Company that specializes in designing Energy Saving Systems for Industrial Process Water, Drinking Water and Boiler Systems.

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BIO FILM FINALLY UNDER CONTROL - click on pictures for larger view
Bauer Energy Design Inc. has been working extensively over the past few years to control bio film effectively and economically. We deliberately do not use the word eliminate because bio film control is an active dynamic process.

Active: It is an active process because the moment bio film controls are not working bio film can develop due to bio fouling.

Dynamic: It is a dynamic process because it combines several technologies in order to achieve its efficacy.

This is a picture of my toilet tank reservoir:

It is 5 years old. It is in show room condition with no bio film on any surface. All my household plumbing is in the same condition. We are not currently using our water softener. Our water is hard 25 grains hardness and we are on city water.
How am I able to achieve a toilet tank reservoir this clean?
 
You may also want to ask the question so what if your toilet is so clean?
First if you look at the toilet tank reservoir and than look at your own toilet tank you will observe the following differences:

Your tank will have a slippery film on the side wall of the tank and on most of the plastic parts. If you dare to put your hands in the water you will probably find that you can wipe off some brown slimy material, this is bio film that naturally occurs on all water surfaces except in the Bauer Energy Design bio film control system.

We achieve our clean toilet tank by active dynamic filtration.

We use a three stage filtration process for municipal water supplies for basic bio film control.
The first stage is a static mixer:

The static mixer we use has mixing elements made of a very unique marine grade copper alloy. This alloy has been demonstrated in the marine industry on ship hulls to be extremely bio fouling resistant.

When water runs over the alloy copper alloy elements a reaction happens that causes the ions in the water to have a reduced charge. (In the Bauer Energy Design Links section you can read further about this phenomenon under our published patent applications.)
The water after the static mixer is conditioned and now has some unique properties:
  • The suspended solids in the water are now flocculated
  • Iron bacteria if previously present is now absent
  • The mineral characteristics of the water are uniform with the conditioning
The conditioned water then goes to the second step which is fine filtration:

The second stage is a standard 5 micron water filter:

The picture to the right is not pretty.

It shows ductile iron collected from the filter housing after 3 months normal household usage. I did not know that we were actually consuming this in our water supply.

What is surprising are the flocs that have not attached to the filter. We found that the 5 micron filters are easy to wash off and that the flocs are not sticky.

The inside of the filter housing also stayed clean with no film.

The picture to the right shows that no bio fouling of the housing has occurred.  Further tests showed that though there was a presence of iron bacteria in the water supply before treatment there was an absence after treatment.
The third stage is micro filtration:

We use the Argonide Nano Ceram Filter.

This filter as featured on our web site (click here) has ultra filtration properties. We refer to it as a membrane in a can.

The picture to the right shows the shape of the filter after six months of household usage, that same  picture shows a clean filter to the eye. This is because the great majority of the visible particles due to flocculation were caught by the 5 micron filter.

There is no visible or measurable bio fouling.
This housing in the picture to the right hasn't been cleaned in 3 years of use. This is the way things are inside our household pipes as well. This can also be seen in the toilet tank reservoir.

The simplicity of the system is hard to believe however it is factual.

The water is chlorinated to standard municipal levels however the conditioning and filtration give the water the ability to end the formation of bio films and bio fouling.