Little Tree Bali - Green Building Centre

Features & Benefits

The Starfish technology is unique, not just for its proven water purification capabilities, but also because its innovative engineering and construction delivers a robust, user friendly system that has lower running costs and significantly reduced environmental impacts versus all other conventional systems.

Take a look at the various areas where the Starfish systems delivers superior results:

Water Treatment - Operational Aspects

Here are the key areas where the Starfish system differs from, and exceeds, conventional water treatment systems on an operational basis.

• Low Pressure
• Low Energy
• Chemical Free
• Membrane & Filter Free
• Flexibility
• Predetermined Output Standard
• Proven & Patented Technologies
• Built in Redundancy

Performance Parameters

The Starfish system delivers superior and consistent results for water purification across and wide range of contaminants and pollutants, beating WHO drinking water standards and most other water purifying technologies. Starfish delivers great tasting, good looking water that is taint & odour free.

• Microbiological Kill Power
• Oil Based Contamination
• Heavy Metals
• Hormones
• Chemicals & Minerals
• Improved Turbidity
• Reduced BoD and CoD .
• Managed pH

Environmental Impact

It is essential for the wellbeing of the environment that any detrimental impacts of human activity are minimized. The Starfish water purification system ensures that this happens by consuming less energy & materials than other systems, operating to minimize waste by-products and reducing depletion of an already limited water supply.

It really does provide the answers to the need to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

All of the features detailed will significantly improve the Green Credentials of any operator of the Starfish system for their water supply requirements.

• Lower Water Depletion
• Reduced Waste Rates
• No Membrane Replacement
• No Chemical Usage
• Lower Energy Requirement
• Recyclable Equipment

Physical Capabilities

The Starfish water treatment system is engineered for performance and reliability. Its innovative design contains a number of unique features that make it easier to install and simpler to operate than many other conventional water treatment technologies.

• ‘Plug & Play’ Installation
• Robust
• No Moving Parts
• Small Footprint
• Low disruption installation
• Modular
• Scalable
• Speed to market

Financial Delivery

Water treatment is often expensive and capital intensive. The price of water continues to increase. Under the current industry constraints, this will not change, costs will continue to escalate.

The Starfish water treatment system offers a different option, one of lower operating costs and reduced capital outlay.

Materials & maintenance costs and management plus the required staffing are also significantly lowered, releasing resources (space, staff) for redeployment.

The risk to security of supply is also diminished when recycling process water, another key financial planning consideration.

• Lower CAPEX
• Lower OPEX
• Reduced water charges
• Reduced reliance on existing water supplies
• No environmental or regulatory penalties

Another benefit of the Starfish system is that it can complement existing technologies. With reverse osmosis, pre-treatment by Starfish will deliver water with a reduced waste load thereby lowering the stress on the RO system. The results? A more efficient and cost effective water management system.

The water treatment systems and processes that Starfish use are all proven, certified by independent testing laboratories, and are fully patent protected. Starfish water purification technologies are outstanding in both terms of their cost effectiveness and environmental friendliness.

Application

Reduce reliance on external water supplies, Reduce the cost of purchasing and/or discharging water by Recycling for Reuse.

1. Improving the quality of input (external) water streams regardless of the supply source:

• Municipal or Utility
•  Deep Well or Bore
•  Surface Water Feed
• Wastewater Feed

Thereby delivering water ‘fit for purpose’ at reduced costs.

2. Recycling process (internal) water streams for reuse:

• Cooling Towers – Reduced ‘blowdown
• Grey Water – Kitchens/Laundries/Bathrooms
• Black Water – Sewage or mixed Wastewater Treatment
• Washdown
• Thereby recycling water within the system and reducing the need to purchase or top up from external sources

3. Treat output water streams to discharge or reuse standard:

• Sewage Treatment Plants (STP)
• Irrigation or Watering
• Release into natural waterway
• Washdown

Thereby ensuring water is safe for reuse or return to the local water cycle and as the Starfish system is multi-use, modular, scalable and flexible, it is suitable for deployment across sites with multiple water treatment needs, thereby removing the need to transport all waste water back to one central Water Treatment Facility (WTF).

Technology

The Starfish water purification system is a unique and patented combination of processes that are all naturally occuring. This combination produces water that is free from biological contamination such as viruses, bacteria, spores & molds, from chemical contaminants & pollutants such as hormones, metals, arsenic and PCBs and most suspended solids (TSS).

In addition, the way the Starfish water purification systems are engineered allows these processes to perform at low cost with minimal maintenance for maximum cost efficiency.

The Starfish systems works with several unique operating features that all contribute to the technology’s reliability, durability, cost efficiency and robustness. It is multi-chambered, allowing the water to receive a variety of treatments, dependent on the quality of the input feed. It also ensures that there is significant redundancy built in to each unit.

As opposed to reverse osmosis (RO) systems, for instance, the Starfish water treatment system is gravity fed allowing it to operate at very low pressure and with variable flow rate control. Most water treatment systems force water to travel horizontally requiring significant energy to generate pressure. 

The Starfish water purification system only requires electrical power to run its’ photoelectric ultraviolet (UV) inputs. This makes it comparatively low on overall energy consumption.

The Starfish system has no moving parts, being almost completely constructed from uPVC ensures that the units are tough, robust, reliable and very nearly maintenance free.

For conventional technologies, such as reverse osmosis, the removal of filtered material is a time consuming process that requires large amounts of the clean water already produced, sometimes up to 50-70%. The Starfish optimised ozone fractionation system draws any wastes off the top of each treatment chamber for central collection and disposal. This results in greatly reduced cleaning times and a water attrition rate of less than 5%.