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PHENOMENA ASSOCIATEDWITH ACTIVATIONOF WATER(II International Conference on Bionics and applied Biophysics, Kiev, Ukraina, March 2829, 2013)

d i G u a l t i e r o A . N . Va l e r i(CIFA International Research Center on Environmental Factors Lugano/Simferopol e-mail: [email protected])

In 2011, after a long period of research on the Piccardi Effect relation to its industrial

applications, we have filed a patent with an industrial partner, and put into series production of a

equipment for the activation of water, particularly oriented to inhibit the formation of calcareous

deposits in pipes and bolilers.

The devices consist essentially of two plates, one of which, or both, isolated, between

which flows the water to be activated. At the plates is applied an electric field of frequency between

10 and 30 kHz, with a potential gradient of 200400 kV/m. They, currently, are manufactured in

two versions: one, or for small domestic applications, for the treatment of 2000 l/h of water, and

another for the treatment of 20,000 l/h of water.

This patent was aimed at a better control of the phenomenon, by increasing the activation

status obtained. The aim has been fully achieved, and, what is particularly interesting, have begun

to highlight some of the phenomena that had not previously been observed.

The most interesting of these is that, where this equipment has been installed in water

systems with pipes clogged by thick deposits of calcium carbonate, that, in a few days, he began tosolubilizers releasing the pipes themselves.

From the studies carried out, it has been observed, through the X-ray diffraction, that the

activated water not more crystallizes in the form of calcite or aragonite, but in a third crystalline

form, said vaterite, and that the calcium carbonate, instead stratify on the surfaces forming deposits

more or less thick, form a multitude of small crystals which remain in suspension in the water.

The latter phenomenon could justify only by the rapid dissolution of the thick calcareous

deposits, given that, for the principle of balance mobile, it is normal for the establishment of an

equilibrium between the solute and the precipitate, for which, at any time, a portion the precipitate

is redissolved and reprecipitated a share equal; therefore the layers of calcium carbonate formed

tend to redissolve and turn into small crystalline vaterite which remain in suspension.

However, he left us pleasantly surprised at the fast dissolution of thicker layers of calcium

carbonate deposited in the pipes, so that for days the water comes out of the pipes cloudy and

dragging sand and solid particles: this thing makes us suppose that even the solubility of calcium

carbonate in activated water is greater than the water in the standard state, a phenomenon on which

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we intend to investigate more thoroughly.

About the behavior of the substances dissolved in the water, we have other observations

collected in a quarter-century of study of the phenomenon.

Prior to the development of the apparatus described, with the industrial partner mentioned,

we have used in civil and industrial applications a more simple device, where in the stream of water

were immersed two electrodes of stainless steel, including passing the pulses of low voltage and

with a frequency of about 50 Hz.

They obtained a reasonable state of activation (as assessed with the test to bismuth

oxychloride), but certainly less intense than what we can get now.

With these devices it was noted that certain dissolved substances interfered strongly with

activation. Or, at least, it was observed that the effectiveness with respect to inhibition of the

deposition of calcium carbonate was greatly diminished.

These substances, in civil and industrial applications, were mainly two: copper ions,

resulting from pipes and coils of heat exchangers, and atrazine and similar substances, resulting

from the pollution of ground water by herbicides, particularly in Northern Italy. When you showed

some abnormality in the efficacy of equipment, controls and water chemical analysis showed

always the presence of pollutants of this nature.

For example, in one case, is applied to a suitably constructed according to the previous

technology for a cooling tower of an industrial plant; instead suspend the addition of corrosion

inhibitors and phosphate to water, they have continued to use in contemporary at the equipment.

After a few weeks the lattice filling of the cooling tower was completely occluded by a thick foam

white mineral, massive but compact, consisting of carbonate and calcium phosphate. Evidently, it

was formed for a modification of the crystalline forms of calcium carbonate (and calcium

phosphates themselves, which ordinarily precipitate without aggregate), completely different from

those produced by activation in hard water.

In 1987 prof. Renato Colal and collaborators at the University of Padua, studying the

action of the systems for the inhibition of the formation of calcareous deposits based on the use of

permanent magnets through which water is made to pass, could observe that, with these devices ,

the effect of inhibition of the formation of calcareous deposits manifested itself with sufficient

efficacy only in the case that the water there were small concentrations of iron ions. According to

prof. Colal the formation of complexes between water and iron ions favored, in the presence of a

magnetic field, the phenomenon.

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From the above, it is evident that the presence of dissolved substances in water capable of

forming dative bonds of a certain intensity (atrazine is a derivative of triazole, and is known the

ease for bivalent copper to form complexes) interferes strongly with the formation of clusters

plurimolecolari which can be attributed to the effect Piccardi in water and other polar liquids, for

the competition that is created between the formation of hydrogen bonds between water molecules

and dative bonds formed by certain molecules and ions.

On the other hand, from observations by prof. Colal, it is clear that the complexes of iron

hydrates help the formation of clusters of ordered water molecules.

It is perfectly justified on this basis, the observations made by dr. Masaru Emoto, who has

noticed profound changes in ice crystals depending on the degree of contamination of waters by

foreign substances, and as the presence of certain toxic substances led to crystalline structures

strongly disordered.

This competition demonstrates that exist between the forces (hydrogen bonding) that hold

together the clustered of activated water and between the water molecules and molecules and ions

of different nature helps us, also, to guess what may be the reasons for the such as water activated

show so intense action on living organisms, that these are the therapeutic effects of mineral and

thermal waters, or inhibiting the growth of microorganisms or algae in the activated water.

It also provides additional useful element to the investigation of the mechanisms of the

pharmacological and biological activity of chemical compounds at high dilutions used in

homeopathic pharmacology and investigated by prof. Jacques Benveniste from the late 80's of the

century just ended.

L u g a n o , M a r c h 1 2 , 2 0 1 3 Gual t i e ro A . N . Va l e r i

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fenomeni chimico-fisici (On physical descaling of boilers and on the relationship between environmental phenomena and

some chemical and physical phenomena), in Tecnica Italiana, Trieste, 1951.

Luciano Pandolfi, Renato Colal, Gastone Paiaro Magnetic Field and Tap Water, in La Chimica e l'Industria, vol. 69,

n 11, November 1987.

Gualtiero A.N. Valeri On the development of an apparatus for the activation of water and aqueous solutions (and non-

aqueous liquids) through the application of a field of quasi-particles (IX Crimean Conference Cosmos and Biosphere,Alushta, Ukraina, 1015/10/2011)

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