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Thank you and congratulations on selecting the ZIP Water Purifier.
ZIP purifiers are among the best appliances you can find on the
market to improve water taste and quality.
With the water quality of our environment worsening, we have been
prompted to design and manufacture this compact, domestic RO
purifier to meet these challenges with the highest quality solutions.
Your ZIP purifier will provide you and your family many benefits and
advantages:
• ZIP is a physical system that does not use or add chemicals
to the water.
• Provides high quality water.
• Ensures high production.
• Low maintenance costs.
• Compact innovative design and concept.
• No installation or water connections.
• No water waste. All water can be used.
• Saves time on set up and maintenance.
With the ZIP purifier you will enjoy the improved taste of water
for drinking, coffee, juice and ice cubes and any other drinking
water use. RO water also enhances the flavour of food when
cooking. Enjoy healthier water for your whole family. The small
water produced has low mineralisation. This will help to prolong the
lifetime of different electrical appliances like your vapor iron, coffee
machines and so on.
It’s imporant to carefully
read and keep this ma-
nual.
If you have any doubts
about the setting up, use
or maintenance of this
unit, please contact with
the Technical Service of
your distributor.
1. PRESENTATION
2. INTRODUCTION
2.1 What is natural osmosis and reverse osmosis?
Natural or direct osmosis is common in nature, found in places
like the semi-permeable membranes which are part of the vast
majority of organisms (e.g. plant roots, our own body organs, cell
membranes, etc ...)
When two solutions of different concentrations of salts (TDS -Total
dissolved solids) are separated by a semi permeable membrane,
it naturally produces a flow of water from the less concentrated
solution to the higher concentrated solution. This flow continues
until the concentrations on both sides of the membrane are equal.
To overcome this tendency, and reverse the natural flow of the
system, (in order to obtain a flow of water from a higher salt
concentration solution to a lower salt concentration solution)
pressure is applied to the water on the side of the membrane
with the higher concentration. Pure water is collected from the
lower pressure side of the membrane and this process is what is
called reverse osmosis. Today, reverse osmosis is one of the best
methods for improving the characteristics of water by a physical
process (without using chemicals)
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The human body contains different quantities of water:
