Building a Better Tomorrow, Today.
At Ultra-Oxygen, the water quality solution division of Soldevco (Pty) Ltd, we are dedicated partners in sustainability, driving change through innovative technology and sustainable solutions for a greener future. United in collaboration, we optimise success for our clients with a solution-driven approach, always prioritizing quality without compromise.
We are passionate about creating a greener, more sustainable future for all. Our focus is on industries that align with our expertise and innovative technology, including project support, agriculture, aquaculture, aquaponics, water quality, and wastewater treatment.
We believe in the power of collaboration and strive to build long-term partnerships with our clients. We shift the traditional business model of selling to one of collaboration, where the goal is to create mutually beneficial relationships that drive positive change and promote sustainability. Join us as we work together towards a brighter future.
“WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER”.
Project Support
For a quarter of a century, we have been at the forefront of delivering exceptional project support services to clients across a range of industries.
Our unwavering commitment to building strong, trustworthy relationships with our clients has allowed us to serve as their trusted advocate and guardian of their interests. Our unparalleled expertise equips us to effectively manage all aspects of construction projects, from coordinating professionals and contractors to procuring materials and equipment. Whether you’re a small or large business, we are here to support and guide you towards success.
Water Quality Solutions
At Ultra-Oxygen, the water quality solution division of Soldevco (Pty) Ltd, lies our passion for elevating water quality to new heights.
We specialize in innovative aeration techniques using Micro and Ultra-Fine Bubbles (MB/UFB) technology to enhance water and wastewater treatment processes, Water Quality Monitoring and Control, Bioremediation, and Water Disinfection. Our commitment is to deliver oxygen to plant roots and microorganisms for optimal results, benefiting industries such as agriculture, aquaculture, horticulture, aquaponics, and wastewater treatment, supply and implement award-winning biocatalysts for enhanced bioremediation, and utilise the latest disinfection technology that uses the quantum mechanics principles of electron movement to create catalytic active surfaces (positively charged) that disintegrate any microorganism instantly, upon contact.
We partner with our clients to tailor solutions that meet their unique project requirements and drive towards a brighter, healthier future for all.
How our Micro and Ultrafine bubble generators work.
Performance data is available on request.
Ultra-Oxygen (UO2) – Micro and Ultrafine Bubble (MB/UFB) high-quality PVC generators.
How the 1N-PVC MB/UFB generator works:
The water is pushed from the outer shell chamber into the gas-liquid mixing chamber via holes in the top of the inner chamber that force the water to spin inside this chamber at a very high speed downwards (first vortex). The floor of the chamber pushes the water up creating a second vortex upwards in the opposite direction through the centre of the first vortex, and then pushing the water out of the hole in the top of the gas-liquid mixing chamber ceiling.
The high velocity creates a negative-pressure cavity portion at the bottom of the inner chamber floor, naturally sucking in the air via the air supply line.
Micro and Ultrafine bubbles are created due to the shearing action of the swirling flow generated by the water squirted into the gas-liquid generating chamber.
The concentration of Micro and Ultrafine bubbles can be adjusted by increasing the negative pressure in the gas-liquid mixing chamber via the gas supply line.
How the VIPER MB/UFB generators work:
The VIPER MB/UFB generator works side by side with the 1N-PVC MB/UFB generator. This addition was designed to enable engineers to multitask like never seen before in the world.
Combining the functions of an ejector, injector, jet pump, vacuum generator, and venturi, enabled the VIPER to generate micro- and ultrafine bubbles, to add a gas in a liquid, to add a liquid to a liquid, to use cavitation to assist with disinfection, and to improve the quality of mixing in of nutrients in water.
In short, water flows into the VIPER at a higher pressure than that at which it exits. This pressure difference creates a vacuum at the suction port on the side of the device. This sucks air, oxygen, ozone, or liquid into the main water stream. So, the greater the difference in pressure, the greater the vacuum and, with that, the greater the efficiency of mixing.
What makes the VIPER unique is that in venturis gas and liquid are pulled, via a hole unevenly, into a single mixing vortex, whereas in the Viper’s case, the gas or liquid is received by a large suction chamber and feeds this evenly via the perimeter of the entrance hole of the diffuser that leads through to the diverging cone.
In the VIPER the static pressures in the suction, and mixing zone chambers, can be decreased below the vapour pressure by as much as -90 kPa at a constant flow of water by reducing the airflow to the suction chamber, allowing water to evaporate in the formation of bubbles (Vapor bubble grows at low pressure). It collapses within milliseconds again in a spectacular physical event as it is transported with the flow from where it was formed at low pressure to areas with higher pressure. The bubble will stop growing when local pressure exceeds vapour pressure and because liquid water occupies many thousand times less volume than vapour, the bubble implodes.
Also known as cavitation, the water is forced to become water vapour by the physical creation of micro vacuums “bubbles” underwater. These “bubbles” are made of water vapour only. No air or gasses are involved. These “bubbles” fully collapse to again form liquid water. The jet velocity can reach up to hundreds of m/s.
It must be noted that cavitation on its own, DO NOT INCREASE DO LEVELS in water. However, due to the ability to create a negative pressure up to -90 kPa in the suction chamber, the VIPER MB/UFB generator can raise DO levels and use Cavitation at the same time in the water with a temperature of 10 degrees Celsius.
In general, cavitation is one of the elements of an integrated treatment system, consisting of physical, chemical, and biological processes.
The effects of cavitation have become very useful in supporting chemical processes in environmental protection technologies, especially in technologies related to the decomposition of substances particularly harmful to humans and their immediate surroundings.
Benefits expected: Improves coagulation and flocculation, drops zeta potential, increases oxidation potential that helps to remove bacteria and parasites, rapture their cell walls, and then kills them by oxidation. It increases the biodegradability of organic compounds in polluted water. Exhibit bactericidal activity during water treatment. Decrease the amount of persistent organic pollutants in wastewater treatment plant effluent. Biological disinfection of water. Destructive effect on yeast, bacteria and even viruses. The combination of cavitation and H2O2 for example, gives a higher reduction in suspended TOC values of tannery wastewater than only using H2O2.
Conclusion:
Oxygen is a necessary element in all forms of life. The level of dissolved oxygen (DO) is one of the best indicators of overall water quality.
The dissolution of oxygen into the water is maximized with the injection of UO2 micro- and ultrafine bubbles. This is because small bubbles present a greater relative surface area to the surrounding water than larger bubbles. Oxygen diffuses into the water at the surface, so a large surface area facilitates greater oxygen absorption.
Knowing that the oxygen transfer efficiency decreased as the water jet velocity increases and that the energy needed to increase the jet velocity, the focus on the highest oxygen transfer efficiency was compromised in the design to incorporate the practical elements and to achieve the best of all worlds into one.
UO2-MB/UFB generators are the best-priced, most cost-effective, sustainable, robust, easy to use, and most environmentally friendly way in the world, to create bubbles smaller than 100 microns.
On top of this, being able to also use the new advanced technology of hydrodynamic cavitation in environmental engineering, allows Ultra-Oxygen to provide solutions in processes greatly effective during water and effluent treatment.
Hydrodynamic cavitation is a non-wasted technology and environmentally friendly due to the possibility of degradation of low biodegradable, hazardous and carcinogenic organic compounds, which are resistant to conventional disposal methods.
Examples include pesticides, dyes, or high molecular organic compounds, which in the cavitating liquid environment become susceptible to biodegradation.
Ultra-Oxygen believes that MB/UFB and hydrodynamic cavitation is the most energy-efficient technique in the world in any AOP or water treatment process.
It can diminish the recently necessary use of expensive chemical reagents for advanced treatment processes. These chemicals create additional problems when deposited into the environment.
Finally, nowadays a lot of attention is put upon micropollutants such as endocrine-disrupting compounds, chemicals that can interfere with endocrine (or hormonal) systems. Endocrine systems are found in most varieties of animals. The endocrine system consists of glands that secrete hormones, and receptors that detect and react to the hormones.
Studies in cells and laboratory animals have shown that EDCs can cause adverse biological effects in animals, and low-level exposures may also cause similar effects in human beings. EDCs in the environment may also be related to reproductive and infertility problems in wildlife and bans and restrictions on their use have been associated with a reduction in health problems and the recovery of some wildlife populations. Aquatic life subjected to endocrine disruptors in an urban effluent has experienced decreased levels of serotonin and increased feminization.
Ultra-Oxygen is proud of itself for being able to provide a solution that can deal with micropollutants.
What UO2-MB/UFB generator, and how many do I need?
To answer this question we suggest you contact us. In short, to answer your question we will need to know what the DO level is in your system, the quality of your water, the maximum value you use in a day and during what time of the day, the amount of water you keep in storage, and what DO levels would like to see in your system.
Our project-specific engineering services will cover all above.
Available Models.
1N-VIPER
The 1N-VIPER MB/UFB Generator
Weigh 8,8kg (2,7kg cover + 3,3kg MB/UFB generators +2,8kg 200dia fixed Flange)
Size & Operating pressure: 340 mm-200 mm Dia x 510mm max 6 Bar pressure. Inlet 50 mm
This is the mother of Ultra-Oxygen Micro and Ultrafine Bubble generators. This unit generates Micro and Ultrafine bubbles in the most energy-efficient manner and offers the user 2 gas/liquid inputs. This ISO FLOW SANS 966 Class 9 and 12 uPVC micro and ultrafine bubble (MB/UFB) generator can be used in freshwater, nutrient-rich water, or seawater. The unit as is can be used inside tanks, water reservoirs and dams.
It is recommended that the MB/UFB generator be used with a 0 to 10L/min airflow regulator and/or 0 to 5L/min rotameter for mixing liquids with the 1N-PVC unit and with a 0 to 20L/min airflow regulator and/or 0 to 5L/min rotameter for mixing liquids with VIPER-30. It can be mounted on a submersible, or via pipework to a land-based pump with the following spec: 0,37-0,9kW _80-200L/min_9-12mHead with a 50mm outlet.
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APPLICATION: To increase dissolved oxygen in the water and to be able to maintain it on the required level. This unit requires 10L/min air into the system to operate on its best and was designed for all oxygen-to-water transfer applications. This extremely useful to bring down high Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) and Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) readings. It also now possible to increase Oxidation-Reduction Potential (ORP) in any water body, sustainably, quickly, and very cost-effectively.
PUMP SPECIFICATION: SV 10-M-50 – 220V – 0,75kW – Single Phase -11,2m Tot Head @ 0.1m3/min – 18,5kg – Discharge Bore 50mm – Stairs (SV-series) commercial and industrial wastewater submersible pump.
EXCLUDED FROM PRICE but AVAILABLE ON REQUEST: Consultancy, Delivery, Pumps, O2-O3 Generators, Flow meters, Cloud-base Water-View equipment providing DO-TEMP-EC-pH-COD-N readings, project-specific Enclosures, Floats, Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing work, and other client site specific requirements.
Price: $ 745 each
VIPER 100
The VIPER100 MB/UFB Generator
Weigh 3,54kg
Size & Operating pressure: 230 mm-125 mm Dia x 320 mm max 6 Bar pressure. Inlet 50 mm
This is a High-Quality MB/UFB liquid pump and static mixer for the injection of liquid and gasses into water. Unique cavitation technology included. The units are manufactured in high-quality PVC and are suitable for harsh water-related applications.
It is recommended that the MB/UFB generator be used with 0 to 80L/min airflow regulator and/or 0 to 20L/min rotameter for mixing liquids. Consult with UO2 specialist regarding pump selection.
The unit was designed to automatically pull in and mix 25-72 L/min air with 300L – 600L water @ 150-400kPa via a 50mm dia inlet. Consult an Ultra-Oxygen specialist before installation. The unit must have a pressure differential of at least 100 kPa to work and it is recommended to have a pressure differential of +- 2.5 Bar to obtain designed performance.
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APPLICATION: To increase dissolved oxygen in the water and to be able to maintain it on the required level. This unit requires 10L/min air into the system to operate on its best and was designed for all oxygen-to-water transfer applications. This extremely useful to bring down high Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) and Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) readings. It also now possible to increase Oxidation-Reduction Potential (ORP) in any water body, sustainably, quickly, and very cost-effectively.
PUMP SPECIFICATION: SV 10-M-50 – 220V – 0,75kW – Single Phase -11,2m Tot Head @ 0.1m3/min – 18,5kg – Discharge Bore 50mm – Stairs (SV-series) commercial and industrial wastewater submersible pump.
EXCLUDED FROM PRICE but AVAILABLE ON REQUEST: Consultancy, Delivery, Pumps, O2-O3 Generators, Flow meters, Cloud-base Water-View equipment providing DO-TEMP-EC-pH-COD-N readings, project-specific Enclosures, Floats, Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing work, and other client site specific requirements.
Price: $ 745 each
IN-LINE and EXPORT KITS
PUMPS
The final selection of the quantity of UO2 units and pumps forms part of site-specific engineering. The smallest pumps normally recommended that will work with the UO2-MB/UFB generators are:
SV 10-M-50 – 220V – 0,75kW – Single Phase -11,2m Tot Head @ 0.1m3/min – 18,5kg – Discharge Bore 50mm – Stairs (SV-series) commercial and industrial wastewater submersible pump.
or
EUS 50M – 220V – 0,9kW – Single Phase -11,2m Tot Head @ 0.1m3/min – 16kg – Discharge Bore 50mm – DAB (ESWIM-series) High-efficiency self-priming centrifugal pumps with built-in large capacity prefilter.
“IF YOU CAN’T MEASURE IT, YOU CAN’T MANAGE IT”
We can supply water quality monitoring meters and sensors and on request can come out to you to test your dissolved oxygen levels in your water.
LIVE ONLINE WATER QUALITY MONITORING
OU2-WATER VIEW
Multi- Parameters Analyzer and Display system include:
Multi-Parameters Transmitter Touch screen, RS485 Modbus, USB interface, with datalogger – Power:220VAC. The system includes programming, a High and Low relay for the DO sensor, and a Timer function.
The system includes the following connections in the box and the programmer set up a system to be able to provide the following water quality parameters.
1. pH and Temp
2. Conductivity
3. DO
4. COD & BOD
5. Turbidity
6. Suspended Solid
7. Chlorophyll-a
8. Three in one out of water – CO2, Humidity, Ambient Temperature
9. Nitrate(NO3-)
OXYGEN CONCENTRATOR SOLUTIONS
Ultra-Oxygen Plus O2 Option
The UO2+O2 solution is an EXTRA OVER OPTION should you wish to supersaturate water.
BREAKING NEWS – It is now possible to increase the saturation level in your water up to + 427% (38.0mg/L) when using an oxygen concentrator with the UO2 units.
The 22% oxygen found in the air we breathe (ambient air) is thus boosted by replacing 73% Nitrogen of the ambient with pure oxygen. We recommend standard oxygen concentrators that can supply 0-5L/min +-93% pure oxygen continuously over 20hrs of operations. The units come standard with manufacturers warrantees and maintenance instructions. The system is an easy plug-play system and very easy to install on its own.
One of these concentrators can supply up to 3 UO2 units with needed oxygen. For 4 to 6 UO2 units we recommend one 0-10L/min oxygen concentrator.
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APPLICATION: To increase dissolved oxygen in water up to 40mg/L and to be able to maintain higher as normal oxygen levels in the water. This extremely useful to bring down high Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) and Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) readings. It also now possible to increase Oxidation-Reduction Potential (ORP) in any water body, sustainably, quickly, and very cost-effectively. This is also extremely useful for plant growth and soil conditions, among other applications.
SPECIFICATION: Oxygen Concentrator: 93% (±3%), 0-5L/min, ≤285W, 8.5 psi ( 58.6 kpa ), 220V, 370x320x570 mm, 16kg, 220V-50Hz, ≤55 dBA oxygen concentrator, able to perform at least over a period of 20hrs/day.
EXTRA OPTIONAL: 3 Phase Oxygen Generator supply, project-specific Enclosures, Flow meters and splitters, Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing work, quality air intake protection, 0-10 L/min O2 supply @ 20psi, and any client requirements.
Price: On Request
OZONE GAS TREATMENT SOLUTIONS
Ultra-Oxygen Plus Ozone Option
The UO+O3 solution is an EXTRA OVER OPTION should you wish to aggressively treat contaminated water. Due to the ability to supersaturate a liquid with any gas and to be able to transport it in micro and ultrafine bubbles, Ozone can now be used more effectively than ever before, mainly because of the ability to increase the contact time of the gas with impurities. (Up to 30min)
This is most effective in the treatment of stabilized high-strength municipal landfill leachates, the reclamation potential and toxicity reduction of municipal secondary effluents, the removal potential of phytoplanktons from surface waters, and the removal of cyanobacteria species, which are considered responsible for cyanotoxin releases in drinking water supplies. Ozone is also an effective sanitizing agent against a broad spectrum of pathogenic and spoilage organisms.
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Examples of application:
Ozonation of stabilized landfill leachates using 8.3 mg O3/L resulted in a significant reduction of color after 120 min of ozonation time, while organic matter removal (in terms of COD) reached 81% after 240 min of ozonation time. The ozone dose was the major factor affecting the disinfection process of secondary effluents; the ozone dose of 8.2 mg/L resulted in the complete removal of pathogenic bacteria after 5 min of ozonation time.
Soaking peeled shrimp meat in water with 3 ppm dO3 for 60 s resulted in the highest reduction of spoilage bacteria of the treatments studied, and will have a positive effect on product quality and shelf life during
storage and Listeria destruction.
Our un-sophisticated systems are capable of removing both particulate and dissolved organic wastes to maintain healthy fish in a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS). The solutions involve establishing adequate dissolved oxygen levels, removal of solid wastes, ensuring sufficient ammonia nitrification, and also for fish sensorial quality, i.e., removal off-flavors from 2-methylisoborneol (MIB) and geosmin from water. Moreover, ozone can improve water quality by reducing biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), ammonia, and nitrite, to disinfect incoming hatchery water, to disinfect hatchery wastewater, and to disinfect fish eggs.
Price: On Request
General Consulting and Support Services
Item | Solution or Product | Description | Unit |
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1 | Client-Introduction (15min) | Establish relationships and identify areas of interest. | Item |
2 | Client Consultation (±20min OFF-SITE/online) | Establish relationships and identify area of interest. | Item |
3 | Site & Project Inspection (fixed-7hrs OFF-SITE/online) | Client Consultation (±20min OFF-SITE/online) | Item |
4 | Site & Project Inspection (fixed-7hrs OFF-SITE/on-line) | ON-SITE – Project Quality Control & Commissioning Supervision (Per Hour Rate) | hr |
5 | OFF SITE – Project Quality Control & Commissioning Supervision (Per 6 Hour shift) | Off-Site quality control & commissioning inspection supervision services on projects where UO2 equipment is used by others. (The fee is based on 6 hours fixed slots assuming no re-work is required. Standard terms and conditions apply.) | Item |
6 | ON-SITE – Project Quality Control & Commissioning Supervision (Per 6 Hour shift) | Site inspection(s) to check if the needed quality control procedures were followed and to ensure successful implementation of solution/s. (Consumable, disbursement, travel, and accommodation expenses excluded. Client requirements and site location will have an impact on this ON-SITE service.) | hr |
7 | OFF-SITE – Project & Operational Support (Per Month) | Support on a monthly basis to ensure the solution implemented is properly supervised by the client’s staff. (Normally applicable to Partnerships, Trials, and/or Research and Development projects.) Services include telephonic support 10hrs/day and are based on the client’s ability to provide the needed monitoring and control data in the prescribed manner. Site visits costs and travel expenses are excluded. (Standard terms and conditions apply.) | Monthly |