Author Archives: Carolyn Pitts

Zeta Nanocera strategic alliance announced

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Nanocera & Zeta logosJune 10, 2016
Tucson, Arizona —  Zeta Corporation and Nanocera are pleased to announce the for­ma­tion of a strate­gic alliance co-mar­ket­ing sus­tain­able prod­ucts and tech­ni­cal ser­vices to indus­try.  The two com­pa­nies will com­bine devel­op­ment efforts in key indus­tri­al mar­kets where cus­tomer pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and sus­tain­abil­i­ty inter­ests over­lap.  Principals at both com­pa­nies have been inter­est­ed in a col­lab­o­ra­tion for sev­er­al years and look for­ward to pro­mot­ing the alliance.

Nanocera offers lead­ing edge, envi­ron­men­tal­ly advan­taged con­ver­sion coat­ing tech­nolo­gies, which pro­vide supe­ri­or cor­ro­sion resis­tance and paint adhe­sion, elim­i­nate dam­ag­ing phos­phates and reg­u­lat­ed heavy met­als, and sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduce total oper­at­ing costs, includ­ing low­er ener­gy and water usage.

Zeta Corporation man­u­fac­tures and mar­kets Zeta Rod® sys­tems, which sig­nif­i­cant­ly improve water and ener­gy con­ser­va­tion, opti­mize the per­for­mance of indus­tri­al flu­ids, reduce water treat­ment chem­i­cal usage, and con­trol scale and bio­log­i­cal foul­ing in water sys­tems.

For more infor­ma­tion, please con­tact:

NANOCERA
Blair Imbody
Founder/CEO
(520) 909‑0168

ZETA CORPORATION
Carolyn B. Pitts
President/CEO
888−785−9660

DoD Corrosion Prevention and Control Program demonstrates 20% make-up water reduction and 50% reduction in blow-down utilizing Zeta Rod Water Management Systems

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Link to USACE ERDC ReportThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Research Lab (USACE ERDC/CERL) has pub­lished data col­lect­ed dur­ing a 24-month demonstration/validation project in which the  Zeta Rod® Water Management System was eval­u­at­ed for its abil­i­ty to deliv­er doc­u­ment­ed water con­ser­va­tion results while pro­vid­ing cor­ro­sion, scal­ing, and bio­foul­ing pro­tec­tion in open-loop evap­o­ra­tive cool­ing sys­tems. The report, titled “Demonstration of Non-Corrosive, Capacitance-Based Water-Treatment Technology for Chilled Water Cooling Systems” eval­u­at­ed sites at four mil­i­tary instal­la­tions in Arizona, California, and Georgia.  The study includ­ed sys­tems where the tech­nol­o­gy was pre­vi­ous­ly installed as part of a 2010 eval­u­a­tion (ERDC/CERL TR-09–20) and added sys­tems that broad­ened the range of water qual­i­ties and oper­at­ing con­di­tions eval­u­at­ed.

Results and obser­va­tions indi­cat­ed that the tech­nol­o­gy deliv­ered an aver­age 20% reduc­tion in make­up water usage and 50% reduc­tion in blow-down, while meet­ing or exceed­ing cri­te­ria for pro­tec­tion of equip­ment from scale, cor­ro­sion, and bio­foul­ing. Reductions in make-up water rep­re­sent a major water sav­ings for an instal­la­tion, while reduc­tions of blow-down water rep­re­sent a sig­nif­i­cant less­en­ing of load on installation’s waste­water treat­ment sys­tem. (The direct use of the blow-down water for grey-water pur­pos­es appears fea­si­ble, but was not demon­strat­ed.)

The tech­nol­o­gy was effec­tive in water treat­ment and deposit con­trol for a wide range of water con­di­tions, from very soft, cor­ro­sion-pro­mot­ing water to very hard, scale-pro­mot­ing water. The val­i­dat­ed appli­ca­tions are rec­om­mend­ed for con­sid­er­a­tion by deci­sion mak­ers to reduce mil­i­tary instal­la­tion chem­i­cal uti­liza­tion and sup­port Department of Defense Net Zero Water goals.

Click Here to link to the Full Study:  “Demonstration of Non-Corrosive, Capacitance-Based Water-Treatment Technology for Chilled Water Cooling Systems” Report Number: ERDC/CERL TR14-15

Related Papers:
Cooling Tower Institute (CTI) Green Technologies 2012

“Demonstration of Electronic Capacitor-Based Water Treatment System for Application at Military Installations” Report Number: ERDC/CERL TR 09–20

Cooling water conservation: What does 5.8 million gallons of water look like?

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Drawing showing 1 million gallons as a cube 51.1 feet on each side

source: USGS

TVA Cooling Water Conservation Project: Zeta Rod Case Study

Imagine a swim­ming pool, rough­ly the size of a foot­ball field, five sto­ries deep.  This is the vol­ume of water (5.8 mil­lion gal­lons of water to be exact) that one U.S. Government Data Facility in the Southeastern United States has saved in one year by employ­ing Zeta Rod® Water Management sys­tems tech­nol­o­gy for its open loop water treat­ment and cool­ing water con­ser­va­tion pro­gram.  Most peo­ple are amazed to learn that a cool­ing tow­er sys­tem requires so much water to oper­ate and that cool­ing water use gen­er­al­ly eclipses all oth­er facil­i­ty water require­ments.

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) includ­ed a Zeta Rod Water Management sys­tem as part of an Energy Project for one of its major clients in the Southeastern United States. Results doc­u­ment­ed a 22% decrease in make up water, 65% decrease in waste­water, elim­i­na­tion of chem­i­cals and an annu­al water sav­ings of 5.8 mil­lion gal­lons.

Click here: TVA Cooling Water Conservation Project

 

Evaporative “Swamp” Coolers Benefit from Zeta Rod Systems

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Diagram of Evaporative Coolers Treated with Zeta Rod Systems

Are you inter­est­ed in pro­tect­ing and reduc­ing main­te­nance on evap­o­ra­tive cool­ing equip­ment, sig­nif­i­cant­ly extend­ing the life of cool­er pads and CELdek® media, con­serv­ing water, and elim­i­nat­ing odor and scale buildup?   Zeta Rod® elec­tron­ic capac­i­tor-based water treat­ment sys­tems deliv­er these ben­e­fits and more with a sim­ple  instal­la­tion into the main water line feed­ing one or more evap­o­ra­tive cool­ers. Continue read­ing →

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Issues Directive & Guidance on Non-Chemical Treatment of Cooling Tower Water

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Link to USACE ERDC Site

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Engineering and Construction Bulletin

Subject: Non-Chemical Treatment of Cooling Tower Water
Applicability: Directive and Guidance

Non-chem­i­cal treat­ment of cool­ing tow­er water has been found to be a viable option for many projects. Significant water and cost sav­ings can be real­ized depend­ing on the projects cool­ing sys­tems size, amount of year­ly oper­at­ing time for the sys­tem and con­di­tion of the make-up water. There are var­i­ous types of non-chem­i­cal treat­ment such as: hydro­dy­nam­ic cav­i­ta­tion, pulsed and sta­t­ic elec­tric field, ultra-son­ic, and mag­net­ic. CERL has per­formed a study on Zeta Rod Water Management Systems, a  type of non-chem­i­cal treat­ment (High Voltage Capacitance Based – HVCB) used on the cool­ing sys­tems at four U.S mil­i­tary bases. The bases select­ed had a wide range of make-up water use and cli­mat­ic con­di­tions. This sys­tem oper­at­ed by installing insu­lat­ed high volt­age elec­trodes into the cool­ing tow­er pip­ing cre­at­ing a strong elec­tro­sta­t­ic field in the water stream.

Click here to view the USACE Bulletin

Zeta Rod® Fouling Prevention Technology Integral to ASPEN Water’s Mobile Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Systems

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http://www.zambotimes.com/archives/34303-WESCOM-fights-cholera-with-newest-water-purification-machine.html

ZAMBOTIMES
Sunday, July 17. 2011

WESCOM fights cholera with newest water purifi­ca­tion machine
by 6CRGAFP/RVC-PIA9 BaSulTa

ISABELA CITY, Basilan (Philippines)— The Western Command (WESCOM), has deployed its newest water purifi­ca­tion machine to barangay Culandanum in the munic­i­pal­i­ty of Bataraza in Palawan to help its res­i­dents recov­er from the trag­ic cholera out­break that struck the vil­lage, last March that left at least 27 per­sons dead. Continue read­ing →

U.S. Government Releases Zeta Rod Cooling Water Conservation Study

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Link to USACE ERDC SiteThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Lab has pub­lished find­ings of a two-year Demonstration Validation Study that suc­cess­ful­ly com­pared Zeta Rod® Water Management Systems in side-by-side cool­ing tow­er instal­la­tions against stan­dard chem­i­cal water treat­ment pro­grams.

The study, enti­tled “Demonstration of Electronic Capacitor-Based Water Treatment System for Application at Military Installations” presents the data and results of the study.

Abstract: The United States Department of Defense (DoD) has a spe­cif­ic leg­isla­tive man­date to increase its con­ser­va­tion of water and ener­gy. It also is inter­est­ed in improv­ing the effec­tive­ness of open-loop, cool­ing water treat­ment process­es at its instal­la­tions world­wide, for pur­pos­es of extend­ing the use­ful life of evap­o­ra­tive cool­ing equip­ment and reduc­ing ener­gy use/costs. A Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) was approved to demon­strate that, with­out using chem­i­cal addi­tives, a capac­i­tor-based water treat­ment sys­tem is capa­ble of (1) pro­vid­ing equiv­a­lent pro­tec­tion to a chem­i­cal treat­ment pro­gram in pre­vent­ing scale, cor­ro­sion, and bio-foul­ing; (2) allow­ing cool­ing sys­tems to be oper­at­ed in an enhanced water con­ser­va­tion mode; (3) deliv­er­ing mea­sur­able reduc­tions in water usage over con­ven­tion­al meth­ods; and (4) pro­vid­ing con­trol, mon­i­tor­ing, and wire­less data trans­fer via the Internet. Results doc­u­ment­ed in the sub­se­quent demon­stra­tion and eval­u­a­tion project showed the tech­nol­o­gy was able to meet every objec­tive and also was able to deliv­er a 20% reduc­tion in cool­ing water use over stan­dard chem­i­cal treat­ment meth­ods. Application of this tech­nol­o­gy would allow the DoD to (1) reduce chem­i­cal usage, expo­sure, and dis­pos­al expens­es; (2) con­serve water and ener­gy; (3) facil­i­tate water re-use; and (4) meet new goals for con­ser­va­tion of resources.

To read more, click here to link to the Army Corps of Engineers pub­lished study

Zeta Rod® Systems Receive IAPMO Certification

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Uniform Plumbing Code NSF61 Logo

February 8, 2006

Tucson, Arizona — Zeta Corporation is pleased to announce that its patent­ed Zeta Rod® Systems have received IAPMO Research &Testing cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and will now bear the UPC™ NSF/ ANSI 61 mark, indi­cat­ing that they con­form to the stan­dards for Drinking Water Systems Components – Health Effects, as well as to the plumb­ing and elec­tri­cal require­ments set forth in the Uniform Plumbing CodeTM Interim Guide Criteria 91–2005a. Although the prod­ucts had pre­vi­ous­ly been ETL list­ed to NSF-61, the asso­ci­a­tion with IAPMO broad­ens the scope of the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion to include addi­tion­al plumb­ing and elec­tri­cal safe­ty stan­dards devel­oped specif­i­cal­ly for the patent­ed Zeta tech­nol­o­gy. Continue read­ing →

Zeta Rod® biofouling prevention technology drives car wash cost savings

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Mill Valley Car Wash logo

Operations Manager Eric Traband: “I’m sold on this [Zeta Rod] sys­tem. What I have now is an odor-free and bac­te­ria-con­trolled envi­ron­ment, I’m using a lot less water, and cut­ting my over­all costs. This sys­tem is a win­ner.”

Within 60 days, results of the Zeta Rod instal­la­tion into the Mill Valley Car Wash were impres­sive:
• Reduced water con­sump­tion per vehi­cle from 48.75 gal­lons per car (gpc) to 35.51 gpc; a net reduc­tion of 27% per vehi­cle
• 235,000 gal­lons of water saved in 60 days
• 38% drop in the total per vehi­cle wash­ing cost

MILL VALLEY, Calif., April 2003 – Car wash Operations Manager, Eric Traband, recent­ly demon­strat­ed to his boss why he had been named a nation­al Car Wash Manager of the Year in 2000. Traband, an 11-year vet­er­an of the indus­try, seized an oppor­tu­ni­ty to help trim his car­wash operation’s spi­ral­ing water costs and, at the same time, deliv­er bet­ter, more effi­cient ser­vice to his grow­ing ros­ter of cus­tomers. Continue read­ing →

Zeta Rod systems remove biofilms that shield legionella

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Zeta NewsTucson, Arizona:  Zeta Corporation has estab­lished that its patent­ed Zeta Rod® tech­nol­o­gy is anoth­er weapon in the bat­tle against legionel­la. Zeta Rod sys­tems will remove and pre­vent recur­rence of biofilm and asso­ci­at­ed scale that shel­ters legionel­la bac­te­ria inside potable water sys­tems and in cool­ing tow­ers. Continue read­ing →