Your pool filter may soon be wasting a whole lot less water.
Stephen Feeney, an inventor working out of the Maze Mall in Belleville, has invented a new secondary filtration system for pools he calls the “Aquamizer” with engineering assistance from Brian Kinmond.
Feeney says his filter can capture and save hundreds of litres of water and pool chemicals that are normally wasted whenever the filter uses a back flow to clean itself.
“When you put it on backwash, that water which is already treated and stabilized, goes through my secondary filter and it puts it right back into your pool, instead of throwing it away down the drain or in your backyard,” said Feeney. “In a three minute backwash, standard backwash in our testing of the prototype, it saved 284.64 litres of water in three minutes.”
The device’s own filter is designed to be rinsed and reused for multiple cycles.
Feeney says that the technology can be used in other applications as well, saying that the device can be applied to most systems that circulate a filtered and cleaned liquid, like decorative water fixtures and some industrial machines.
The Aquamizer isn’t available in stores yet, as Feeney is still looking for a partner to produce and market his invention, but he has secured a United States patent on the device, and has a patent pending in Canada.
