SOUTHAMPTON, PA.—Commercial customers are saving 5 to 12 percent on water utility bills with a new Conservation Water Valve. A Pennsylvania energy consulting company is helping large water users nationwide reduce rising water bills at the source. Their patented valve is designed to slow water turbulence and compress air. The air in the pipes is plentiful, and for heavy users can equate to thousands or tens of thousands every month. This costly air serves no benefit, it is never requested and there won’t be a refund.
Many are surprised to find that every building owner nationwide is faced with the same issue and because no one is aware of it, no one is complaining about it. Scott Milne of National Energy Technologies explains, “We are compressing and conditioning the air and turbulence mixed in the water from the municipality, which if left uncorrected, can cause the water meter to spin an additional 5 to 10 percent.”
It is true; commercial customers pay for the tiny bubbles mixed in with the incoming water supply from the utility. This air has always been a natural component to turbulent rushing water and as it passes through the meter it registers, and it reflects on the water bill. In fact, it is often paid for twice because the incoming water meter read is used to determine both water and sewer expense, in most cases.
Based on 18th Century Principles
National Energy Technologies’ new technology is based on 18th century principals from Le Chatelier and the Venturi effect. This device is legally installed after the meter on the user’s side. It is able to compress and affect the air before it passes through the meter. Among other things this system will disrupt the usual swirl turbulence in the line without reducing flow. The device does not vent the air from the line but it does effectively compress it. The product is accepted by most municipalities and completely safe and sanitary.
Although this technology is scalable it produces a much faster ROI for the large commercial or industrial water user. A Turbulence Reduction System uses a reverse flow pulse to compress any air that is entrapped in a water system. This proprietary process will have the following positive effects on stabilizing the flow entering a facilities water circuit:
• Reduces the meter spin by 5 to 15 percent;
• Reduces sewer expense (often taken from the incoming meter);
• Acts as a “shock absorber” for incoming spikes of entrapped air;
• Moderates current or seasonal high water pressure conditions; and
• With any reverse in flow the device also acts as a secondary backflow device.
Also Called a Flow Management Device (FMD) the valve uses the flow of water to self-perpetuate an oscillation assembly, without noticeable negative effect on building pressure. The oscillation assembly will create a compression process that generates a backward thrust. The result is that air in water transforms into compacted state. The continuation of this process will alter the air to a maximum compression state. This super compressed air then resumes travel through the water meter, along with clean flow water, and past the device. After the compressed air has traveled past the proprietary valve, the air will resume its original state of volume.
Go to National Energy Technologies for more information.
