What is a Saline System?
A Saline (salt-water) purification system for your pool provides on-site production of a sanitizer necessary to maintain safe, healthy and algae-free water. It involves no handling, storage or adding of chemicals to the water. When properly sized for its application, it eliminates the need to purchase sanitizing chemicals.
How does this system work?
Using every day table salt (sodium chloride) that dissolves into water, the water is subjected to a simple process of electrolysis and a very effective water sanitizer is produced. When the water and salt is passed through the cell portion of the Saline System equipment, chlorine gas is automatically produced. The chlorine gas dissolves instantaneously into the water (so is never a hazard), and produces high levels of sanitizer/oxidizer, preventing the formation of ‘chloramines’ and other chlorine compounds and provides a safe and measurable amount of sanitizer.
How salty is the water?
In fresh-water applications, the salt produces a salinity of approx 3000 ppm (parts-per-million), which is 1/12th as salty as ocean water, or 1/3rd as salty as human tears. Pool-side plants and water-feature vegetation, in almost all cases, are unaffected by the low salinity water.
Benefits?
• Healthy. This system will maintain healthy water while eliminating the risks and problems associated with periods of very high or low chemical levels.
• Prevents algae growth. The constant ‘shocking’ of the water as it passes through the Saline System ‘cell’ together with consistently maintained sanitizer levels in the main water body will prevent the growth of all common algae.
• Environmentally and Ecologically Positive. The Saline System eliminates the need to manufacture, transport and store ‘pool-chlorine’ type chemicals and instead uses only pure, natural salt from the ocean – and then re-cycles that salt indefinitely!
References:
1. http://www.salinepoolsystems.com/learn_more.htm#1b
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