A greener recipe for clean drinking water

CONCORD, USA: Which would you prefer in your drinking water: bleach or light? You wonder how can one use light to purify water. But there is a way, says Canadian company Trojan Technologies.

Trojan designs, manufactures, and sells UV systems for municipal wastewater and drinking water facilities, the residential market, and also designs and installs treatment technology for the environmental contaminant and micropollutant destruction market.

And the company uses SolidWorks 3D CAD software and SolidWorks Flow Simulation software from Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp. to custom-design and configure systems for each client.

“We’re not adding anything to the water, we’re just shining light through it to alter the DNA structure of harmful microorganisms like E.coli, Giardia, and Cryptosporidium, effectively destroying the reproductive systems in the cells,” said Jason Cerny, one of the company’s senior mechanical designers.

“SolidWorks and SolidWorks Flow Simulation software are important tools in this endeavor, letting us create better systems faster in more competitively sized packages.”

Trojan has been using SolidWorks for a decade, he said. Based in London, Ontario, Trojan Technologies used SolidWorks to design and build the largest UV disinfection system in the world, made up of 56 water disinfections units, for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection.

The facility is capable of treating up to 2.2 billion gallons of water each day, said a press release. “Safe, clean drinking water is one of the most important things in the world,” said Efrat Ravid, director of marketing and alliances for Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp.

“It’s reassuring to know that Trojan is driving the technology forward and using SolidWorks software to do that.”