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APPLICATIONS

Agriculture

The Inline Processor “enhances irrigation water” by causing the water to lose its ability to bond to itself and any foreign contaminates. The Processor does this by effectively stripping electrons from the water and foreign contaminates contained therein. Reports have shown that our technology is able to break water clusters, reduce surface tension and increase percolation through all soil types up to 100%. The Inline Processor also neutralizes the negative effects salinity, chlorides, boron, calcium, magnesium and other waterborne foreign contaminates that are commonly known for reducing the water uptake in plants. The benefits of the Inline Processor apply to all water qualities, soil characteristics and plant types.

Naturally plants require water as a necessary ingredient to grow healthy and strong. Plants draw water up through their vascular tissue contained in roots, stems and leaves where it evaporates to the atmosphere, this is called the evapotranspiration process. This process is essential for plants to maintain temperature and optimum physiological function. Micro-nutrients in the soil can present themselves as a restriction to water uptake under normal circumstances. Processed water however easily flows around them and breaks them down into smaller micronutrients which are then transported through the root membrane and up into the plant.

The amount of water necessary to achieve maximum crop yield is reduced when the Inline Processor is used. Processed water is “enhanced water” that is more readily available to the plant at the time the plant needs it, reducing the overall stress on the plant. Plants irrigated with processed water are healthier higher quality plants that produce much greater yields. Additionally healthy plants are less attractive to insects as well. The yield increases our customers have reported to us of, 25 to 100% as described in our written and video testimonials available on our website are not uncommon. The typical return on investment is within the first year.

All of the benefits described above are achieved without any outside power source, user adjustment, consumable parts, or chemicals. The Inline Processor does not add any additional resistance to flow and is built to meet the line size and flow rate requirements of the Customer. The Eco1st Inline Processor is backed by our Customer satisfaction guarantee and 10 year limited manufacturer warranty.

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Water treatment

Filtration systems of all shapes and sizes make use of pressure and a media or membrane to segregate out materials from a fluid such as water. The materials in the fluid are typically bound to the fluid at the molecular level. Pressure is used to break these bonds and to force the fluid to flow through the filter and beyond. The filter serves to break bonds and segregate material. As the material builds up on the filter the flow rate of the filter goes down. If the pressure is not increased at some point, the filter will require cleaning or replacement. In situations where there is an automatic backwash system, the system would go through a cleaning process intended to restore the filter to a higher flow rate. Reverse osmosis systems have two streams of water in them. The cleaned water that goes through the membrane is called permeate or product stream. The concentrate stream is an ongoing flow of water that moves across each membrane which is serving a cleaning function that carries away the particulate left behind on the membrane surface.

The Inline Processor technology is an in-line electrochemical process, which alters the charge properties of fluids, gasses and organic matter. Inline Processors are designed to effectively strip electrons from flowing fluids without use of chemicals, electricity or operators physical adjustment. It just sits in place, in-line with your water source, cleanly operating for years. This process enables water to lose its ability to bond itself to other foreign matter. The water remains in a positively charged state until such time that it regains enough electrons to restore its former balance-charge state and bonding nature. Our Processed water flows more easily through permeable and semi-permeable materials, including filters which reduces back pressure and lowers energy costs while increasing the quality and quantity of the product water.

The performance and efficiency of any filtration system is increased when an Inline Processor is used to pre-treat the fluid being filtered. The bonds between both the fluid and contaminates are broken reducing one of the functions of a filter. Stripping the electrons from the fluid causes it to temporarily loss its ability to bond to itself and to anything else including the filter media or membrane. Filters that remove particulate down to the micron sizes have extended filter life due to the elimination of bio-fouling and reduction of back pressure on the filter surface caused by the typical bond breaking process.

The process produces another concurrent benefit: Waterborne microorganisms do not survive the process. Live microorganisms, ie: Giardia Lamblia, Cryptosporida, E Coli Types, spore formers etc. entering our system, exit having been inactivated/killed by the process of stripping electrons from all sources within and from the flowing water. Studying the process, samples have proposed two possible causes for this effect:

1. The electron stripping process destroys the microorganisms DNA.

2. The electron transport and exchange mechanism of the microorganism becomes destroyed.

Our Process inactivates/kills microorganisms without the use of chemical or outside power source and simply eliminates all costs, risks and by-products normally associated with chemical disinfectant or algaecide use.

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Fuel Enhancement

The Inline Processor serves this application by increasing the Btu or caloric output of fuels while reducing the combustion emissions or byproducts. All fuels liquid, gaseous or solid are typically in a neutral charge state which basically means they have equilibrium between total negative and positive charges. Our processor removes electrons from these fuels and causes the fuel to become positively charged prior to the addition of air.

Fuel requires air for combustion to take place. The air serves to re-supply the required electrons to the fuel since air is electronegative and gives up electrons readily. This electron sharing process causes the air to more uniformly bond to the fuel which results in these process benefits. The net result is you can use less fuel to do the same job while reducing combustion byproducts.

Still in testing phase of development

Oil & Water Separation

After installing the Eco1st Inline Processor, oil operators will see multiple benefits that will improve the efficiency and profitability of their operation. Oil operators will notice a dramatic decrease in the time it takes to separate oil from water, resulting in less retention time in their separation tanks. Not only will the Inline Processor improve the speed of separation but it will also separate oil from water much more thoroughly, leaving oil operators with more oil that is higher in quality.

The Inline Processor accomplishes all of this by stripping valance electrons from the fluids in the pipeline before, during and after it flows through the processor itself. Electrons are small negative electric charges that bind molecules together; an easy analogy would be that electrons are like the cement that bonds together bricks. After the Inline Processor has stripped these electrons, the individual materials are no longer bound together and end up in a suspended state, resulting in the layers of materials separating according to their specific gravity. The Inline Processor is also effective at killing 100% of bacteria in the water, and will help minimize corrosion.

A typical installation of the Inline Processor would be inline prior to a gun barrel tank for increased efficiency and increased profitability. Some customers prefer installing the Eco1st system on their disposal wells, making sure they extract every last drop of oil possible before disposing of the water. Installation is straight forward and will require very little downtime of the oil operation. The Inline Processor is built to meet the line size and flow rate requirements of each customer.

Soil Salinity and Salty Irrigation Water

The Problem:

Agriculture irrigation ground water quality is not what it was 50 years ago. It is filled with high salinity, has high TDS (total dissolved solids), boron, sulfur, bacteria and other foreign contaminants. Salty irrigation water or brackish water used for crop irrigation has become an epidemic for farmers across the world because of the effects it has on the crop. These effects can be catastrophic if the TSC (total salt concentrate) or parts per million is above the plants threshold levels.

In the parts of the world where salt water intrusion has taken place most farmers are switching to more salt tolerant crops because they do not have any other viable option other than a pricey reverse osmosis system. Unfortunately, most farmers do not have a million dollars lying around to cover the cost of system used for desalination and are left with few options that will allow them to continue production levels seen before salt water intrusion took place in their wells.

One option that is becoming the solution for saline ground water and other water conditions is the Inline Processor.

How has this happened?:

America's Aquifers have been diminishing in water supply close to 3 times the rate of recharge and farmers have had to drill deeper wells in order to find a proper water supply for their crop. The deeper the well is drilled or the closer the well is to coastal regions the more likely salt water intrusion is to take place. Also salt from mineral beds may leach into the groundwater of its own accord. Farmers are faced with these issues in their water quality in many areas of the country from the coastal aquifers of California and Florida to the Ogallala Aquifer in the mid and southwest.

For instance the Ogallala Aquifer also known as the High Planes Aquifer which covers New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota, Oklahoma and Kansas is continuing to show signs of salinization any many of the areas it covers. Just like in other areas of America, the deeper the farmer drills for irrigation water the more likely they are to hit saline ground water. This lowered water table caused by over extraction of the water supply causes saltwater intrusion to take place and farmers are left with only one option; pumping out of these wells which are typically called; salty irrigation well, saline well, salty well, or in this area of America; Santa Rosa wells.

How does this affect my crop?:

Most farmers find that due to high salinity irrigation water a good percentage of their crop will die off immediately after the germination process or transplant process. The seed or seedling unfortunately will immediately droop, shrivel, and die off in a matter of days. That what doesn't die off will have to continue to sustain life throughout its entire lifecycle due to the high concentration of salt in the irrigation water and the salts built up into the soil.

These plants will draw water through their roots, up to their leaves where it evaporates to the atmosphere. This is called the evapotranspiration process. Salinity restricts this by lowering the total water potential in the soil. Salts end up competing with plants for water. Even if a saline soil is water saturated, the roots are unable to absorb the water and plants show signs of drought stress. These signs are leaf burn, yellow leaves, defoliation, and the plant being unable to produce a yield. The soil will also become dense and form hard crusty layers on the surface making water unable to penetrate into the ground.

As a result of all these negative affecting factors the farmer is left with a yield and quality of product that is not what he/she hoped for.

The Solution?:

Luckily we live in a time where technology has been revolutionizing the farming industry. The Inline Processor is THE SOLUTION for salty irrigation water, salinization, soil salinity, salination and the need to switch to salt water tolerant crops. The farmer will also no longer need to filter or leave the well water in settling ponds hoping to resolve the issues of salty well water thanks to the Inline Processor.

Farmers using the Inline Processor have been able to achieve outstanding production increases with any crop type, soil type and water quality.

Our Inline Processor technology is simply installed directly into the main irrigation line. The processor strips away electrons from the flowing water and causes water to lose its ability to bond to itself and any foreign contaminates contained therein which breaks surface tension and increases percolation. This is the reason why our technology is so unique and effective. Removing this normal bonding nature between the water molecules and the salt causes the water to flow past the salt and up into the plant just as if the salt was not even there. All of these incredible results equal a dramatic increase in yield on any crop type without changing any of a farmer's normal practices aside from the simple installation of the Inline Processor. This incredible technology is not only environmentally friendly but operates without an outside power source, is chemical free and requires no operator adjustments.

One recent potato farmer from Florida that has been using the Inline Processor stated "It was like the salt wasn't even in my wells and as a result the first year the Eco1st Processors were in line I could see a big difference in the growth process of the crop and I had an overall 40% increase in yield over the two fields."