Corrosion
The term corrosion means oxidation of a substance with oxygen. Most water pipes are metal pipes and corrosion occurs in all such pipes if appropriate measures are not taken. In industry, above all in the case of process water, corresponding conditioning systems and materials are used to avoid corrosion. In most cases however, corrosion is a very widespread problem. There are very many reasons for such corrosion but listing them all at this point would exceed the bounds of this document and so we shall list only the two most widespread types: corrosion owing to stagnant water and corrosion owing to unsaturated, aggressive water. In both cases, the water or the oxygen dissolved in the water attacks the metals of which the pipes or machines are made. This results in rust or copper oxide etc. after a certain time. The incipient corrosion roughens the surfaces which speeds up the entire process even more. Iron or copper can then be detected first in the water and, over the course of time, corrosion may clog up the pipes to such an extent that leakage ultimately occurs and the pipes need to be replaced.
Under normal conditions , i.e. an installation location free of electrosmog and not subject to external electrical energy in the water, Merus is capable of counteracting such a corrosion process, stopping it and even reversing it. The diagram at the left shows the change in particles dissolved in the water after installing Merus. The quantity increases (rust is dissolved) and then drops virtually to zero.
