Hydrosmart Electronic Water Treatment

The technology and approach has gained acceptance in Australia and worldwide as a mainstream water- treatment option, in a wide range of agricultural and non-agricultural settings.
The process used is Lorenzian agitation. To achieve this, an oscillating electric field is generated by a circuit, fed to copper wrappings coiled around a delivery pipe, and the oscillations then agitate charged compounds in the water, at specific frequencies. The wires do not contact the water. However, the fields produced, and the frequencies used are those which can penetrate water. The same window of frequencies are utilized by communication from ships to submarines, i.e. the selected frequencies that are able to travel easily through water.
The inspiration for the technology was Ion Cyclotron Resonance (ICR), being the idea that a vibrating system as an external force can drive another system to oscillate with greater amplitude. More broadly it was inspired by the observation that fields can affect/penetrate water and also that such fields can affect the solutes that water contains, by virtue of the charge naturally present on those solutes such as ions of Na+, Cl-, Ca+, and CO3-. The agitation phenomenon requires that a magnetic field also be present, otherwise charged compounds/solutes cannot respond to an applied electric field. The Hydrosmart technology relies on the earth’s magnetic field in this respect, and provides only an oscillating electric field.
Details and mechanism of solute treatment
The electric field is established by two antenna windings around a PVC plastic irrigation pipe. The direction of the field along the axis of the pipe is reversed by 180° roughly every microsecond. This is done via two helical antenna windings, as shown in Figure 1.

Water flow is in either direction (fixed). The electric field is at its greatest intensity (shown by closely spaced field lines) inside the pipe. At Time A the polarity of the electric field is along the pipe from left to right. At Time B, just microseconds after Time A, the polarity of the field is from right to left, i.e. shifted by 180° from its position at Time A. The length of time between Time A and Time B is on the order of 100 microseconds to a millisecond, and the polarity reverses constantly at a fixed rate. The constant alteration of polarity agitates the charged particles present in the water, and separates them by encouraging water molecules to intervene between the charged particles that up till the time of treatment were sharing water molecules (Figure 2). The particles then remain separated, and fully hydrated until the water is used for irrigating crops. It turns out that partially hydrated solutes affect soil salinity quite differently than fully hydrated solutes do.
Lorentzian agitation simply means that these solutes (ions) are propelled in opposite directions and become separated from each other, effectively increasing hydration. Partially hydrated oppositely charged ions tend to be associated with each other in irrigation water, and more importantly in the soil, where they accumulate due to evaporation of pure water. Treatment tends to dissociate these ions, allowing them to act independently.

HYDROSMART™ is increasingly being adopted for boosting crop production and is now being explored for facilitating the reuse drainage water on a regional scale. This sustainable technology requires no filters, chemicals or membranes. It is easy to install, maintenance-free, consumes only as much electricity as a light bulb, and can be solar powered.

As shown in Figure 2, the finer scale mechanism of solute separation also involves agitation of each individual water molecule. Water molecules respond to an electrical field, in the presence of a magnetic field, just as charged solutes do. This is because water molecules are “polar”, as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3. Water dipole. By virtue of its V-shape (a), each water molecule has a net positive end and a net positive end. The oxygen end (red in a) is net negative (b), because it naturally attracts electrons or more accurately speaking, “electron density” (shown as a red “cloud” in a). The hydrogen ends (blue in a) are each net positive (b), because they donate electron density constantly to the oxygen atom. The vector outcome (c), given that the centrepoint of the two positive charges is in space between the two hydrogen atoms, is that a “dipole” exists along the plane of symmetry of the water molecule. The dipole has a partial (or “delta” which stands for difference, symbol δ) positive charge at one “end” (lying/pointing in one direction), and a delta negative charge at the other end (lying/pointing in the opposite direction).

It is because of the water molecule’s natural dipole that combined electrical and magnetic fields are able to influence the molecule’s orientation. Put simply, the dipoles of adjacent water molecules can line up with each other all in the same orientation, to match the orientation of the applied field. This ordered arrangement momentarily takes the place of disordered structure that liquid water normally has, with the caveat that not many molecules align at a time, it isn’t really all of them, as water tends to oppose such influences, and the energy input by Hydrosmart to the body of water is of a low amount.
Treatment yields a few days window of opportunity during which the treated water must be used. Because water molecules themselves are involved as targets of Hydrosmart treatment, and because the effect is on the dynamics of water’s association with solutes such as salts, the treatment’s effects have a finite time window, before solutes again begin sharing water molecules. It has been found that contact of the treated water with two
dimensional surfaces in the presence of other external electromagnetic fields “EMF”can lessen the downstream effects of treatment, or duration of the effect. “Power lines or motors for example, must be kept at least one meter away so that only the earth’s magnetic field is present ”
Of significance, on the other hand, it is found that the effects on soil irrigated with treated water are cumulative. As treated water continues to be pumped into saline soil, the salinity of the soil begins to come down to the level of salinity present in the irrigation
water, so opposing the effects of evaporation. Untreated water may not be so effective, it is found.

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