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Well, we're here in my basement and I want to show you my hydrogen peroxide injection
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system for our household water. You're not going to see something like this too often, but there are some distinct advantages
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to this and I'm going to show you what they are and how the system works
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It starts with this drum of 35% hydrogen peroxide. Now that's pretty corrosive
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If you were to touch that, you'd get a burn on your skin
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So it's something to take seriously. But when it's added to drinking water, to household water in small quantities, it does
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two important things. First of all, it kills all kinds of microbes, so it sterilizes the water, and it does this
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without chlorine, which is a great thing because hydrogen peroxide is nothing but H2O2
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So it's like a water molecule with an extra oxygen atom tacked on, and that makes it highly
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oxidizing and that kills all kinds of microbes. So that's one reason for hydrogen peroxide
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The second is that it's super effective at eliminating sulfur water. So that's the rotten egg smell that comes from water from some kinds of wells
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We don't have sulfur water problems here. I got this as a supplement
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Our water tests fine, but I wanted to purify it, so that's why we're using hydrogen peroxide here
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But it is the only way I know of to get rid of that rotten egg smell, and it does that
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very effectively too. Anyway, that's the drum, and the hydrogen peroxide, full concentrate, 35%, is drawn
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up through this pipe by this injection pump. This can be used for injecting a whole bunch of different things
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It just happens to be hooked up here, and when it turns on, it draws small quantities
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of hydrogen peroxide in here, and it injects it in here. This is the manifold that does different things in my water system
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Incoming water's coming through here, and it rounds this bend and goes into the pressure tank
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This is the pressure switch. So as soon as the pump is energized, this injection pump is energized as well
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So when the submersible pump gets power, this gets power, and it starts running at the same time
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And the hydrogen peroxide is injected into the incoming water stream, and it goes into
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the pressure tank with the water. Now this injector pump, it's adjustable
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This ring moves. I can rotate this ring to vary the amount of hydrogen peroxide that's injected
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And what I'm aiming for is about 25 parts per million. I have some paper, like litmus paper, that tells me what the concentration is
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And so at the current setting, it's what I want, and it works quite well
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Now to be fully effective for removing sulfur in a sulfur water situation, and for removing
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all kinds of smells and odors and tastes, I've combined the hydrogen peroxide system
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with this whole house carbon filter. So this is filled mostly with granulated carbon, and the water flows through it, and then it
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flows through the house. I can bypass this if I want, so we can just get straight water with a little bit of hydrogen
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peroxide in it. And there's some people that'll tell you that there's health benefits to that, and I believe
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them too. You can taste a little bit of a different taste when you're drinking the unfiltered water
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So most of the time we run it with the carbon filter in operation
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But that's how it all works in a nutshell, and it certainly serves us well
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And it's especially useful if you have a well that has some kind of contamination, some
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kind of bacteria contamination, or you've got a sulfur water situation that you want
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