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TEL 0203 402 1702 | EMAIL info@hydrosphere-uk.com | WEB hydrosphere-uk.com Š Hydrosphere Innovations Ltd 2013

What is Hydrosphere®?

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“Hydrosphere® is a patented methodology for the chemical treatment and cleaning of heating & Cooling installations.”

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Hydrosphere® was developed to bring an innovative and environmentally friendly solution into the water treatment field. Pre-commission cleaning is a field of work that has had no significant technological advances for many years. Hydrosphere has changed this.

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The Hydrosphere® process comprises two essential elements, and these are:

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Pretreatment of all system water Dynamic system cleaning, via closed loop circuitry

“Hydrosphere® is a new concept in water treatment delivering effluent free, Pre-commission cleaning”

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In practical terms this means that the only requirements for this are a modest water supply, power to provide circulation, and system integrity. This allows the system cleaning to start earlier and as the process is faster, system cleaning is completed in less time than would conventionally be the case.

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Pre-treatment minimises potential system contamination, degradation and fouling.

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“Hydrosphere® is the only process that has been designed

specifically to tackle the problems encountered at each phase of the cleaning of a modern building services installation”

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Hydrosphere® Pre-treatment

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Traditionally, systems are treated with raw water and this creates a number of issues.

Using fully automated, patented, state of the art equipment, Hydrosphere® takes care of the filling process. and provides full system protection.

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Additionally, using BioBlock® technology, we are able to prevent living, dying and dead bacteria and their bio-mass from entering a system and instantly minimise the risk of system infection (particularly pseudomonads), thereby providing long term system protection.

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“Hydrosphere® is fast and delivers certainty”

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Hydrosphere® Cleaning

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Once full, the system is Cleaned using HCU’s (Hydrosphere® Conditioning Units).

All the system water is passed through units at high velocities in accordance with the latest BSRIA guidelines. All of the water is re-used and recycled.

The conditioning process is carefully monitored to continually adapt the units in line with system conditions.

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Why Hydrosphere® is successful There are four key factors that have enabled Hydrosphere to achieve success on all projects.

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1) Speed

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“Hydrosphere® vastly reduces project times”

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Hydrosphere® Conventional Clean

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Hydrosphere® can start earlier Hydrosphere® is not constrained by water supply or drainage Witnessing can commence earlier Hydrosphere® eliminates time consuming conventional stages

Hydrosphere® was used on a land mark London retail and commercial development near St Paul’s Cathedral. It contains over 50 retail outlets, commercial office space and restaurants.

The project was delivered in half the conventional time without discharging any water to drain.

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“This enhanced process helped us complete pre-commission cleaning to

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schedule without flushing any water to drain!”

Senior Project Manager SPIE Matthew Hall

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2) Deliverability

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Conventional water treatment and flushing activities can run over schedule and impact on practical completion. With Hydrosphere®, this simply doesn’t happen.

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A major infrastructure project in 2013 with nearly 100 hydraulically separate systems was delivered on time with complete success on every circuit.

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“Hydrosphere® is used by clients to achieve project certainty and deliverability”

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Because the water quality is controlled at project commencement, the usual problems that cause flushing activities to run over programme are not encountered.

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Hydrosphere® was used on a data centre comprising four identical phases each containing a 100m3 chilled water system.

Hydrosphere guaranteed success within the allotted time frame of three weeks on each phase of the project.

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“…..Hydrosphere® produced fantastic results enabling us to complete the project without the discharge of effluent and well within the allotted programme time. I would recommend the use of hydrosphere on all projects."

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Daragh Campbell, Project Manager Crown House Technologies

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3) System Integrity & Longevity

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Using Hydrosphere®, superior system cleanliness and chemistry results are achieved. First of all, from day one we are treating the system water. At no point is potentially contaminated raw town mains water introduced, even when “flushing”.

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“Full system protection is provided for brand new pipework installations” ! ! ! !

An early form of Hydrosphere® was used to treat the Channel Tunnel Undersea cooling system.

The system water volume is in excess of 22,000,000L and made up of over 200km of pipework.

Since 1994, no problems have been encountered with water quality or pipework deterioration!

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“We finished the construction of the undersea cooling system for Eurotunnel in 1994…” “…The internal condition of the pipework has not deteriorated at all and we have maintained the thickness of the original pipes” José Capez

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Hydrosphere® was used during the preparation for London’s 2012 Olympics. Water quality results were excellent and the project was finished in record time.

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Following the games, the facilities management team on site encountered no issues with water quality on sites treated using Hydrosphere®.

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To illustrate the effectiveness of Hydrosphere® we have shown here the following: !

Sample 1 - Is completely un-treated and un-whetted Sample 2 - Has been fully immersed for 24 hours in raw London town mains water Sample 3 - Has been fully immersed for 72 hours in raw London town mains water Sample 4 - Has been fully immersed for 60 days in the standard Hydrosphere® treatment chemicals

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Sample A - Is an example of how poor system water can be.

Sample B - Is from a 450m3 system, operating at full flow, taken after filling, using the Hydrosphere® pre-treatment filling process; but crucially before any Hydrosphere® cleaning has been undertaken.

Sample C - Is taken from the same system , circulating at full flow, after completion of the Hydrosphere® cleaning Process.

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4) Environmentally Responsible “Hydrosphere® does not create the pollution associated with traditional flushing methods”

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It has been independently calculated that half of all water needed during the construction of a building is directly attributable to conventional polluting flushing activities

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Conventional methods re-introduce and create more of the contaminants that the cleaning process is attempting to remove.

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In some instances, systems could be re-oxidised by the fill water, as fast as they could be flushed.

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Wasted drinking water from a conventional flush

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be used to flush and clean an installation conventionally”

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The beauty of Hydrosphere® is that only enough water is needed to fill the system once. This water is then used to hydraulically test and clean the installation.

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“Hydrosphere® reduces effluent production to zero!”

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Terminal 2 at Heathrow was recently re-constructed. On one phase alone, the systems held in excess of 2 million litres of water.

If flushed conventionally, in excess of 60 million litres of effluent would have been created. This equates to around 24 Olympic Swimming pools full of water.

Not only would 60 million litres of fresh drinking water have been used but the same amount of chemically polluted effluent would have been created.

Hydrosphere® reduced this to zero.

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The way forward

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Hydrosphere® provides a modern pre-commissioning cleaning programme. It delivers significant environmental, cost, and time benefits. Correctly controlled and managed this application will provide certainty and flexibility for any project. Timescales and completion dates will be both measurable and deliverable.

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“Hydrosphere provides a proven and environmentally responsible cleaning and treatment method that has withstood the test of time.”

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