Ozone injection

[Cleanworks]

I have seen claims of Ozone being used in various carpet cleaning systems for years now. Does anybody use this, what is the benefit and can you buy ozone injection systems to adapt to your tm/portable/op machine/etc?

 

[Old Coastie]

Am I having deja moo, or is this what senility feels like?

 

[FB19087]

@Larry Cobb

 

[Larry Cobb]

We have been testing a new high output Ozone Injection system.

In conjunction with a chemical already in the solution line,

we are injecting Ozone into the pressurized line.

This produces Hydroxyl ions.

These ions are more effective deodorizers, and non-irritating.

My "extraction-only" test on a "cat-lady's carpet" without any other chemicals was very effective.

 

[J Scott W]

I used ozone injection on several jobs and demo'd for some otehr cleaners. This was back in the Ed York days, middle or late 1980s. At that time cleaning was less than spectacular but there was some ebenfit toward odor control.

I have not tried it for 25 years or longer. I hear claims the process has improved a lot. But I have not seen it or tried myself. At least opne manufacturer of such a system wants Interlink to carry their ozone injection equipment and has offered to come do a demo.

 

[Jimmy L]

Just add liquid peroxide to your prespray.

 

[NobleCarpetCleaners]

imho chasing your tail. I've bumped up my ozone generators to some serious output machines. Ozone gas has excellent power (though limited) when used effectively in open air situations. Like for cooking odors and many others.

I've experimented with injecting into liquid having used a pure oxygen source through the generator. All in an attempt to saturate as much as possible the solution to kill organisms; I experiment constantly in my home brewery. Here's what I know, it takes extremely high levels of ozone to break up organic odor molecules and even higher levels to kill of spores, germs and even virus.

My experience out here in the occasional sewer of carpet cleaning is that if odor is a concern in carpet and even upholstery, you are chasing a bigger picture. Carpet and modern upholstery have no constructed engineering to combat urine and other destructive soils. Engineering ozone injection into our pressurized carpet cleaning solution is comical at best. The carpet cleaning industry continues to "kick the can" down the road by offering more and more juices/powders/gadgets and gizmos to clean or treat odors. Manufacturers and suppliers to see what we see face to face in the field. The before promises or qualificatins and the after of treating things like urine are insane. The residues are still there and 99% of the time the customers continues to use the carpet as a toilet.

But hey, let us know how the ozone is workin out....

 

[Cleanworks]

We have been testing a new high output Ozone Injection system.

In conjunction with a chemical already in the solution line,

we are injecting Ozone into the pressurized line.

This produces Hydroxyl ions.

These ions are more effective deodorizers, and non-irritating.

My "extraction-only" test on a "cat-lady's carpet" without any other chemicals was very effective.

I guess I curious as to how ozone works with other chemicals. I have seen people using ozone only and making outrageous claims but can it be injected into a chemical prespray or rinse and how would ozone affect the performance of those chemicals. As an oxidizer, would it render those chemicals ineffective or can it boost them. Larry, I hope you can do some more testing and show us the results.

 

[Larry Cobb]

In my testing with our CitraGreen prespray, it definitely boosted the cleaning appearance.

We also tested with our Liquid Brightener oxidizer +Ozone injection and saw a 20% increase in ORP levels (on oxidation meter),

and no irritating effects from the Hydroxyls formed.

Deodorization results were very good on the "cat-lady" carpet.

P.S. we still have one of Ed's Red Ozone Injector (much less output)