Service Systems unveils Uni-Flow, Ultra Guard's 1 MGD Single Lamp Reactor
Service Systems International Ltd.
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OTC/BB: SVSY
Service Systems unveils Uni-Flow, Ultra Guard(tm)'s 1 MGD Single Lamp Reactor
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - April 3, 2000: Service Systems International Ltd. (OTCBB: SVSY) through its wholly owned subsidiary, UV Systems Technology Inc, unveiled its innovative new product line, the Uni-Flow Single Lamp UV Reactor at Water Environment Federation's (WEF) Disinfection 2000 in New Orleans. This premier biennial event focuses on the disinfection industry and showcases ultraviolet and other equipment developments to legislators, academics, consultants and municipalities.
Service Systems' Uni-Flow Single Lamp Reactor will disinfect up to 1,000,000 gallons per day. The Uni-Flow system's control is microprocessor based and Internet enabled. The use of Internet based technology allowed the design team to configure each UV plant location as a secure Web site, accessible from any local or remote location. Owner operators such as Enron Corp., and others, can centralize the monitoring and control of many plants from one location via the Internet, in line with the current trend toward privatization, automation and unmanning of Wastewater plants. Flow pacing, a term used in the UV industry to describe the function of balancing treatment needs while reacting to changes in flow and water clarity, is performed automatically within the software. The control system utilizes the unique, infinite modulation feature of the Ultra Guard(tm) UV lamp to yield even greater power savings of up to 88% over UV equipment supplied by Service System's major competitor. Also, Service Systems, from its' facilities, can monitor any site and upload any software changes to ensure optimum performance at all times. Service Systems International Ltd. teamed with TRI-M Engineering, a Burnaby based, internationally recognized custom engineering and turnkey manufacturing company. With expertise in development of the "plug & use" modular functionality of solid-state components and communications software, TRI-M counts NASA, and defense industry companies, Raytheon, Boeing and Lockheed Martin, as some of its customers.
The new design makes each Uni-Flow module an autonomous one lamp unit, fully equipped with its own lamp, reactor chamber, UV sensor, power controller, automated cleaner and optional gate. A slotted cross-channel plate is used to hold the Uni-Flow patented reactor chamber vertically in place so that the flow is directed through each lamp. Ultra Guard(tm) Uni-Flow is the only commercial system that can reliably flow pace to a single lamp's flow capabilities by using individual flow shut off gates. Other UV systems are only able to control banks of lamps and when lamp failures occur, disinfection is degraded or transient flow variations are over or under lamped.
Because of these developments, Service Systems' Ultra Guard(tm) Uni-Flow system is the only UV technology able to treat up to one million gallons per day per lamp in wastewater applications. Current projects at the City of Peterborough, Toronto's Western Beaches and the Mohawk Nations at St Regis, will use the Uni-Flow UV system. Other benefits resulting from the new Uni-Flow Single Lamp Reactor design are, significant reductions in manufacturing costs, reduced cost of operational, maintenance and wastewater plant infrastructure design, a lightweight modular design, to facilitate installation and handling, lamp replacement without removal of the quartz sleeve, future system expansion at minimum cost and lower cost of legislated redundancy (one extra SLR per channel plate versus one extra bank of lamps per channel).
Service System's Ultra Guard(tm) Technology has received California's Title 22 accreditation, recognized as one of the most stringent disinfection standards in the world. Los Angeles County Sanitation District's (LACSD) subjected the Ultra Guard(tm) System to full-scale testing over a period of 5 months at LACSD's Pomona Plant. LACSD verified Ultra Guard(tm)'s low power consumption and significant savings over the previous benchmark for energy efficiency. Also Ultra Guard(tm) only required 7% of the number of lamps to treat the same flow by the competing UV system (Trojan Technologies Inc.'s UV 3000(tm) system). LACSD had previously discounted the use of UV technology due to the high number of low-pressure lamps required and the high power consumption of medium-pressure high-intensity lamp systems.
The new Uni-Flow reactor enhances the performance verified by LACSD and other notable organizations, while adding value through design flexibility and economies of scale.
**Certain of the foregoing information are forward-looking statements regarding future events or the future financial performance of the company, and are subject to a number of risks and other factors which could cause the actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Among such factors are: general business and economic conditions, customer acceptance of and demand for the Company's products, the Company's overall ability to design, test, and introduce new and improved products on a timely basis, regulatory constraints, and the risk factors listed from time to time in documents filed by the Company with the SEC.
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