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Ultimate Guide to Water Treatment Systems
Peace of mind comes with knowing every drop of water in your home is safe and clean for your family to enjoy.
For businesses, clean water is a necessity. Think about cafes needing pure water for that perfect cup of coffee or manufacturers where even a trace of impurity could ruin production. A reliable water treatment system can mean the difference between success and failure for your business.
This guide will discuss why taking the plunge into water treatment systems is wise at home and work. We’ll also explore the different systems available to help you make the right choice for your water purification needs.
UV Disinfection Systems
Non UV Disinfection Systems
Other UV Disinfection Systems
UV Guard Applications
Our market-leading UV disinfection systems deliver outstanding results across an extensive range of industrial, commercial and domestic applications.
Residential Water Treatment Compared to Commercial Water Treatment
Residential and commercial water treatment systems serve the same purpose: to provide clean, safe water.
However, they differ in several key areas.
- Scale: Residential systems are designed for lower water usage, while commercial systems handle much higher volumes.
- Complexity: Residential systems are generally simpler and designed for DIY installation, and commercial systems are more complex, requiring professional installation and maintenance.
- Features: Commercial systems can have more advanced features, like automated monitoring or specialised filtration stages not commonly found in residential units.
- Maintenance: Residential systems require less frequent maintenance than commercial systems, which need regular professional checks due to their larger scale and complexity.
Different Types of Home Water Treatment Systems
Different Types of Commercial Water Treatment Systems
Best Home Water Treatment Systems
Here at UV Guard, we specialise in UV home water treatment systems. We have a range of systems available for your home.
CWP-Series™
Our CWP-Series™ purifies water to be safely consumed and used throughout your home. The compact, weather-resistant unit delivers total water treatment in three stages: filtration, adsorption, and UV disinfection.
What are the key features and benefits of the CWP-Series™?
- Suitable for rainwater, bore water, and town water.
- Destroys 99.99% of pathogens for safe drinking.
- Improves water taste, clarity, and odour.
- Features a corrosion-resistant stainless steel bracket and lockable cover for outdoor installation.
- Premium food-grade twin filter housings.
- Australian WaterMark certified, meaning it meets specific national standards for quality and performance.
LED-Series™
This mercury-free disinfection system uses light-emitting diode (LED) UV technology to deliver excellent energy efficiency, safety, reliability, and operational life.
What are the key features and benefits of the LED-Series™?
- Destroys 99.99% of pathogens, including E. coli, Cryptosporidium, and Giardia.
- Produces low levels of heat and zero ozone emissions.
- Reaches required UV intensity instantly.
- Flow switch automatically turns LED on and off in unlimited cycles. This feature ensures the UV light is only active when water is flowing, reducing unnecessary power usage and extending the life of the LED.
- Provides years of safe drinking water- over one million litres!
- LED life timer indicates when the system needs replacing.
- Compact design fits easily into tight spaces.
- No delicate quartz or glass material that can break.
SLT-Series™
The SLT-Series™ The SLT-SeriesTM provides high-performance, low-cost UV water disinfection.
What are the key features and benefits of the SLT-Series™?
- Seven models and options to suit a range of indoor and outdoor installations.
- Ideal for under sink, whole house, swimming pool, and pond applications.
- Destroys 99.99% of pathogens for safe drinking.
- Cost-effective.
- Easy to install and maintain.
- Durable 316L grade stainless steel UV reactors.
- Australian WaterMark certified.
T-Series™
Our T-Series™ provides a flexible UV disinfection solution for water storage tanks of any size. It can be submerged to disinfect stored liquids directly and also acts as a deterrent to prevent pests from entering tanks.
What are the key features and benefits of the T-Series™?
- Disinfects water, powders, air, and food-grade surfaces.
- Multiple connection types with 316L grade stainless steel options.
- Indoor and outdoor UV lamp controllers available.
- Easily scalable technology.
- Simple “touch-button” operation.
Best Non-UV Residential Water Treatment Solutions
HWC-Series™
Our HWC-Series™ is a sustainable hard water conditioning solution for softer water. Unlike conventional water softening processes, this system produces results without electricity, salts, resins, magnets, backwashing, or ongoing maintenance.
What are the key features and benefits of the HWC-Series™?
- Multiple models for whole house, shower, and appliance use.
- Easily installed inlinè within your home.
- Maintenance and power-free with zero running costs.
- Operates 24/7 with no interruptions to the water treatment process.
- No added salt or other chemicals are required.
- Valuable minerals are not removed from your water.
- Australian WaterMark certified.
WF-Series™
The WF-Series™ consists of cartridge and bag water filter systems to suit small and large flow rates.
What are the key features and benefits of the WF-Series™?
- Multiple models to suit a diverse range of applications.
- Sediment and carbon cartridge water filters available.
- Quality bag water filters able to catch particles ranging from 1 to 100 microns.
- Polypropylene and stainless-steel water filter housings available.
- Easy to install with a small footprint and standard connection types.
- Quick maintenance with minimal operation disruption.
Best Commercial Water Treatment Solutions
Here at UV Guard, we specialise in the following UV commercial water treatment systems.
LED-Series™
This system uses light-emitting diode (LED) UV technology to deliver excellent energy efficiency, safety, reliability, and operational life.
What are the key features and benefits of the LED-Series™?
- Compact design ideal for tight spaces.
- Durable to withstand harsh environments.
- Mercury and emission-free.
- Destroys 99.9% of harmful pathogens at flows up to 6 lpm (litres per minute).
- Long-lasting LED UV disinfection technology.
- Low-maintenance.
- 12V, 24V, and 240V models available with a battery back-up option.
MPX-Series™
Our MPX-Series™ offers high-performance medium-pressure UV water disinfection for flows up to 1000 m3/hr. It’s ideal for commercial swimming pools, water features, industrial process water, wastewater, and potable water applications.
What are the key features and benefits of the MPX-Series™?
- Efficient variable power polychromatic UV lamp drivers.
- Smooth automatic dimming for “Optimised” and customised “User Profile” power modes.
- Commercial swimming pool chloramine destruction at flows from 10-800 m3/hr.
- Drinking water disinfection at flows up to 1200 m3/hr and beyond.
- Large 7″ HMI touchscreen for easy operation and monitoring.
- Small footprint for horizontal or vertical configurations.
- Interlock UV lamp safety device and UV reactor temperature management system.
P-Series™
The P-Series™ is a versatile system for aquaculture and industrial applications of all sizes, providing UV disinfection for saline waters, thermal fluids, and corrosive liquids.
What are the key features and benefits of the P-Series™?
- Models to suit small and large flow aquaculture operations.
- Schedule 80 uPVC and HDPE UV reactors suitable for saltwater.
- Chemical-free with zero harmful by-products.
- A range of optional controller features.
- Easily connects to existing plumbing infrastructure.
- 100% Australian manufactured.
S-Series™
This system provides robust UV water disinfection for moderate-flow (up to 50 m3/hr) industrial and commercial applications.
What are the key features and benefits of the S-Series™?
- 26 models available.
- Highly customisable features.
- Durable food-grade 316L stainless steel UV reactor.
- Multiple inlet and outlet options.
- Internal flow mixer that optimises UV exposure.
- Australian WaterMark certified (Level 1).
T-Series™
The T-Series™ is designed to protect stored water, liquid sugar, powders, or other substances from harmful pathogens in storage tanks of any size.
Installed in storage tank headspaces, the T-Series™ uses UV technology to disinfect the air, internal tank walls, and product surfaces. It can be submerged to disinfect stored liquids directly and also acts as a deterrent to prevent pests from entering tanks.
What are the key features and benefits of the T-Series™?
- Multiple connection types with 316L grade stainless steel options.
- Weatherproof and indoor UV lamp controllers available.
- Easily scalable technology.
- Simple ‘touch-button’ operation.
X-Series™
Our X-Series™ is a long-life, low-maintenance system ideal for liquids with low UV Transmittance (UVT), high UV dose requirements, and large flows (from 30-700 m3/hr and beyond).
What are the key features and benefits of the X-Series™?
- UV reactor precisely configured to maximise efficiency and performance.
- Low-pressure UV system with up to 16,000 hours of operational lamp life.
- Multiple inlet and outlet connection types and positions.
- Customisable Australian manufactured controller.
- Australian WaterMark certified, meaning it meets specific national standards for quality and performance.
Other UV Guard Disinfection Systems
Our range of UV disinfection systems is extensive! Other options include:
Best Non-UV Commercial Water Treatment Solutions
ABW-Series™
UV Guard’s ABW-SeriesTM is a range of reverse rinsing or automatic backwash screen filters. The fine screen filters foreign matter, such as iron and suspended solids, to provide a continuous supply of filtered water. This screening also protects pipes and infrastructure from corrosion and sediment build-up. This system is ideal for UV disinfection pre-treatment.
What are the key features and benefits of the ABW-Series™?
- Models to suit a range of flow rates from 4-200 m3/hr.
- Filtered water is supplied even during reverse rinsing.
- Patented reverse rinsing system quickly and thoroughly cleans the filter with a small amount of water.
- Choice of timed or pressure differential automatic backwashing.
- Stainless steel screens with multiple aperture sizes.
- European approved.
AQ Silver Ionisation™
This system disinfects and conserves water quality using the strong bacterial effect of silver ions. These are added to the water via a simple electrolytic process, where a small direct current (DC) passes through silver anodes.
Treated potable water (water safe to drink or use in food preparation) can remain disinfected in tanks or bottles without the risk of bacteria re-appearing for up to six months.
Fun fact: NASA and the ISS use silver ionisation for treating potable water in space!
The AQ Silver Ionisation™ system uses low silver concentrations of 0.02 to 0.05 ppm (parts per million), which is well below the World Health Organisation’s recommended limits.
Another advantage of this system is that the silver ions are tasteless and have no smell, thus not affecting the water’s original taste.
What are the key features and benefits of AQ Silver Ionisation™?
- The only water disinfection method, aside from chlorine, that provides residual protection.
- Doesn’t lose effectiveness through evaporation.
- No harmful by-products.
- Doesn’t corrode piping.
- Can be used in systems using ozone as primary disinfection to reduce the ozone concentration.
- Works well at high temperatures- effective against Legionella.
- Easy to use and service.
- Low operating cost- uses approximately 20W only.
- Minimum space required- as compact as 1m x 1m.
HWC-Series™
Our HWC-Series™ is a hard water conditioning solution that, unlike conventional water softening processes, produces soft water whilst requiring no electricity, salts, resins, magnets, or backwashing.
What are the key features and benefits of the HWC-Series™?
- Multiple models to suit flow rates from 5 lpm to 420 m3/hr and beyond.
- Easily installed inline within existing pipework.
- Maintenance and power-free with zero running costs.
- 24/7 operation with no interruptions to the water treatment process.
- No added salt or other chemicals required.
- Australian WaterMark certified.
WF-Series™
The WF-Series™ consists of cartridge and bag water filter systems to suit small and large flow rates.
What are the key features and benefits of the WF-Series™?
- Multiple models to suit a diverse range of applications.
- Sediment and carbon cartridge water filters available.
- Quality bag water filters able to catch particles ranging from 1 to 100 microns.
- Polypropylene and stainless-steel water filter housings available.
- Easy to install with a small footprint and standard connection types.
- Quick maintenance with minimal operation disruption.
Using Water Treatment Systems
A few guidelines will help you get the most out of your water treatment systems, whether residential or commercial.
Precautions
- Read the manual: Always read the installation and maintenance manual thoroughly.
- Safety first: Ensure the area is dry before working on electrical components. If you’re not comfortable with installation, hire a professional.
- Regular checks: Monitor system indicators and schedule regular maintenance to avoid unexpected malfunctions.
Tips
- Pre-filters: Using a pre-filter can extend the life of your main filtration unit by trapping larger particles before they reach it.
- Record-keeping: Maintain a log of maintenance activities and filter replacements. This will be helpful for warranty claims and understanding when the next service is due.
- Consult professionals: Especially for commercial settings, periodic consultations with professionals can optimise the system and save costs in the long run.
FAQs About Water Treatment Systems
Elevate Your Lifestyle and Business with the Right Water Treatment System
Whether protecting your family’s health or ensuring the highest water quality for your business, the right water treatment system is more than just a luxury- it’s a necessity!
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