Real world applications of water electrolysis

Electrolytic water sterilization technology is a new technology that has emerged in Japan in recent years to sterilize and disinfect water in a short period of time with the strong acidity and alkalinity generated by water electrolysis. It has the characteristics of low production cost, convenient production, and short sterilization time. In particular, it can be reduced to ordinary water through oxidation reduction after a few minutes of use, without residue. It can be widely used for soaking, cleaning, disinfection and sterilization in families, hospitals, restaurants, food processing plants and farms. Using electrolytic water as a disinfection and cleaning solution in food processing plants can completely replace sodium hypochlorite and achieve safe, convenient and fast disinfection and sterilization of staff, equipment and ground.

In pig farms and chicken farms, electrolytic water is often used to wash the ground for sterilization and disease prevention purposes. Because of the large amount of organic matter that accumulates on the farm floor, a larger flow of electrolytic water can be used for flushing. Experimental results show that, compared with ordinary tap water, the residual colony count of the ground treated with strong acidic electrolytic water with pH 2.5 is 1/30 to 1/60 of the former, which can effectively prevent the occurrence of infectious diseases.

Electrolytic water can also be used for the soaking and processing of food materials. Tofu production in soybean bacteria is an important cause of pollution and deterioration of tofu, the use of strong acidic electrolytic water cleaning and sterilization and then soaked in strong alkaline electrolytic water, not only can effectively control the original colony number of tofu products, and soybean water absorption rate, protein extraction rate, the leaching rate of amino acids have improved, so that not only the quality of soybean milk and soybean products have improved, and the rate of gain has also improved. This is mainly due to the fact that the water solubility of soybean protein increases under alkaline conditions.

The use of electrolytic water in crop cultivation, focusing on its bactericidal ability, can achieve pesticide reduction or even pesticide-free cultivation to a certain extent. The results of Japanese, Korean, and our trials have shown that electrolytic water has a significant preventive effect against powdery mildew on cucumbers, strawberries, and tomatoes, provided it is applied properly. It should be noted that since electrolytic water must come into contact with bacteria to kill them, and most plant diseases have penetrated deep into the tissues once they occur, spraying electrolytic water does not kill pathogenic bacteria inside the tissues, so spraying electrolytic water should be used mainly to prevent pests and diseases. However, the test results also show that by spraying electrolytic water or adding electrolytic water to the nutrient solution of soilless culture, it is possible to increase the activity of the plants themselves and enhance the resistance to pests and diseases, thus reducing the occurrence of pests and diseases. Since the use of electrolytic water to sterilize and prevent diseases can solve the problem of pest control in organically grown green foods to a certain extent, it has received extraordinary attention in Japan and Korea, and dozens of research institutes and universities in Japan alone have been actively engaged in research and exploration in this area for several years.