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The British military is always thinking. Here's a great story of how they saved countless lives while doing laundry.
During the terrible war in Northern Ireland, many troops and civilians were lost to bombings, the Brits needed to determine who was making the bombs and where they were being manufactured. One bright fellow recommended they operate a laundry and when asked "what the hell he was talking about," he explained the plan and it was incorporated—with much success. The plan was simple: Build a laundry and staff it with locals and a few of their own. The laundry would then send out "color-coded" special discount tickets: "get two loads for the price of one." The color-coding was matched to specific streets and when someone brought in their laundry, it was easy to determine the general location. While the laundry was being washed, pressed or dry cleaned, an additional cycle was added. Every item was sent through an analyzer that was disguised as just another piece of laundry equipment that checked for bomb-making residue. Within a few weeks, multiple positives of bomb residue had shown up. To narrow their target list, the laundry simply sent out more specific numbered coupons to all houses in the suspected area, and before long they had good addresses. Military teams swooped down on the multiple homes and arrested multiple personnel and confiscated numerous assembled bombs, weapons and ingredients. During the entire operation, no one was injured or killed. Now, that's putting laundry to really good use.
https://www.thespruce.com/interesting-laundry-facts-and-trivia-2146486
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Ozone Laundry is a term generally used to describe a philosophy of textile care that uses electricity and oxygen in a unique way to replace many of the chemicals normally used in a traditional washing process. Oxygen and electricity are used to create ozone. Ozone is dissolved into water and applied to the wash wheel in place of the chemicals. This fundamental change to one of the major aspects of textile care comes with a litany of benefits that all serve to improve the efficiency and reduce operating costs of a laundry. Water Energy Ozone Laundry Systems greatly reduce the environmental impact of traditional laundry operations. A quality finished product requires a combination of 4 things: Water (hot & cold) Chemicals Time Mechanical Action Each of these factors must be applied in the proper combination. If you reduce one, you must increase others to create the balance needed to reliably deliver a quality finished product. By properly applying ozone, you can REPLACE many of the chemicals with ozone which is environmentally friendly and is made right on the spot. Therefore you can reduce the chemicals without having to increase something else because you’ve actually replaced them with something that works much better. So much better in fact that you can also reduce water and time and still have the correct balance to produce a superior finished product. The mechanical action is still critical to quality results. Ozone Laundry Uses Cold Water and Oxygen The underlying foundation of ozone laundry begins with a paradigm shift in traditional laundry fundamentals. ~Old School~ Hot Water Alkali Detergent Acid Bleach ~Today~ Cold Water Ozone The big shift is realizing that you can achieve high quality standards without using all the hot water and chemicals. Ozone is a highly effective oxidizer that actually delivers multiple cleaning factors to your laundry process using only cold water. In traditional laundry programs so much alkali (a chemical compound that neutralizes or effervesces with acids and turns litmus blue; typically, a caustic or corrosive substance of this kind such as lime or soda) and hot water are used that the wash water becomes very caustic and damaging to your valuable linens. Most chemical suppliers will tell you this is done to help swell the fibers of the cloth to release the dirt, etc. The fibers do swell but only as a result of the extremely damaging effects such a high pH has on the fabric. Acid must be used to neutralize the high pH before the wash process is complete. The truth about what is going on is that extremely high pH is required to bring about the creation of OH Radicals from water (H²O) molecules. One of the Hydrogen atoms gets ripped-off the water molecule and voila, you’ve got a Hydroxyl radical to do your ‘dirty’ work. With ozone laundry, you can create the same OH radicals with a pH of 8 in cold water containing dissolved ozone. It is a revolution! Ozone works extremely well when properly integrated into your overall laundry regimen. There are many types of linens and many types of soil loading. The vast majority of dirty linens are sheets and towels with a minimal amount of soil and stains. Ozone is a powerful oxidant thereby a powerful bleaching agent. With a small amount of alkali, cold water and a little detergent, you can achieve cleaning and brightening equal to or greater than you would by using chlorine and hot water. This means that the overwhelming majority of your volume of linen can be processed with vastly less energy and chemicals while still producing a superior finished product. Ozone is an unstable molecule and heat energy causes it to break down much more rapidly. The colder your water is, the more stable ozone is and the longer it lasts. In temperatures above 95-degrees, ozone looses all of its effectiveness because the heat causes the ozone to break down and come out of solution or off-gas. This is why for ozone to be effective it is must be used with water below 90-degrees. Actually, ozone mass transfer gets more and more efficient the colder the water gets, right down to freezing. In the context of ozone, mass transfer means getting ozone gas dissolved into water. The colder your water is, the better it is for you. Some laundries will still need to use some hot water. The amount of hot water required will be dependent on the volume of heavily-soiled linens to be processed. Occasionally, some linen will have heavier soil loading and stains including, lipstick, shoe polish, ink, etc. Cold water is not suited to perform well on these types of stains because of the physical nature of oil at low temperatures. Oil-based products are harder to dissolve when they are cold and less viscous. Heat and stronger chemistry are required for more rapid emulsification of these oil-based stains and heat and Chlorine bleach are required for bleaching an occasional stubborn stain. For these types of stains you will need to create a wash program with at least one hot fill and standard hot-water chemistry. These loads usually account for only a small percentage of your production. The Water Energy SolutionOur equipment is completely Non-Invasive to your laundry room. The only connection between the washers and our ozone laundry system is a water line connected to a water inlet valve on the washers. A Water Energy Green Laundry System requires that all washer/extractors have 3 water inlets to be properly integrated with our ozone laundry system. If you only have 2 inlets, you can dedicate certain washers to ozone-only and others to hot-only. The process of making ozone and dissolving it into the water is fully independent of the washers and is achieved in a completely closed and pressurized system before the water is sent to the washers. You can easily set the dissolved ozone concentration you want on a Water Energy Ozone Laundry System from the panel located on the front of the equipment. The readout tells you exactly how much dissolved ozone is being delivered to the washers in .001ppm increments. We normally set a range of 1.5 to 3.0ppm for standard operations but you can go higher or lower if you want. This device is made by Emerson Process Management and is a defining feature of our unique Ozone Laundry Systems. Our onboard PLC computer will maintain this preset level of dissolved ozone in a reservoir tank until it is needed by a washer. You can use an on-demand hot water heater to supply a washer with hot water for the occasional heavily-soiled load. If your ratio of heavy soil goes up, you can simply add an on-demand water heater to another machine. This configuration provides you with maximum flexibility in your laundry. The housekeeping staff will not have to change their routine to take advantage of this flexibility. Every load requires that you enter a particular code into the control panel relating to the type of linen and amount and type of soil loading present. It’s exactly the same with our Green Laundry Systems. The programs are designed to take advantage of the most appropriate technology available for the job. Ozone and cold water or hot water and more chemicals will automatically be dispensed whenever they are needed. History of Laundry The need for doing laundry arose when people stopped wearing skins and started to wear fabric clothes. As man developed he increasingly felt the need to keep himself and his clothing clean. At the beginning only clean water was used for washing clothes; the clothing was soaked, pounded, and rinsed in the water. Over time people began to notice that the addition of certain substances in the water during the soaking stage helped accelerate and simplify the removal of dirt from the clothing. In ancient Egypt the hieroglyphic symbol for washing clothes was two legs in water, which meant that at the time laundry was mainly done by stamping on the clothes in the water. Washing facilities in ancient Rome were famous: fullers washed laundry in large vats filled with whitewash, lye, urine, and water. The fullers would then stamp on the clothing, wring it out, and rinse it in clean water. Only later was the use of various paddles and beaters introduced. Prior to washing the laundry was soaked in water with a mixture of animal fat and wood ash. The invention of soap represented a giant step forward, even if this wasn’t soap as we know it today. For a long time soap was used as a cosmetic agent. The greatest advance in the history of laundry was the invention of washboards. Washboards were made of various materials in different periods; these included wood, fired clay, stone, metal, glass, and artificial materials. We are not exactly sure when washboards were first created and used, but in this country they were used regularly into the 1950s, at which point they were replaced entirely by washing machines. The first attempts at simplifying and above all accelerating laundry work began in the mid-18th century in England when Stender designed the first washing machine. His work was followed by American Hamilton Smith’s drum washer, in which the laundry was moved by blades. In 1790 the Englishman Beetham engineered a washing machine that used only a current of water. However, these experiments never achieved a level of practical application. Additional types of washing machines were developed in which clothes were moved about by various kinds of washers, blades, or pegs driven by a crank, lever, or around, either directly or with different gears. Nearly all washing machines were made of wood; hinges, hitches, and gears were made of metal. This implies that the most common machines could be made directly on order in home wood workshops. Later shops and companies were founded for the production, for example, of both casks and washing machines, as the construction of these two items was more or less the same. The growing popularity of washing machines and the rising interest in more complicated and hence, for the most part, better machines led to the creation of specialized companies that were involved exclusively with washing machines for commercial sale. One such company was Hobza a spol. from Hranice na Moravě, which manufactured washing machines under the label IDEAL as far back as 1904. The company enjoyed good sales in the Austro-Hungarian Empire as well as in Russia, Romania, and as far away as Egypt. Roller or press wringers were used to remove excess water from the washed clothes; these advances were a definite improvement over exhausting hand wringing or the somewhat better device known as a "squiggle." The next and likely the greatest advance, as was the case with the majority of technical branches, was the introduction of electricity and its use in small motors patented in 1894 by Nikola Tesla. In time completely new models were designed. An important advance was the transition to the production of metal washing machines, as this made it possible to create entirely different machine shapes and hence a new swirling style of washing. The latest types of washing machines are able to wash and dry clothes so that only ironing is necessary afterwards. The history of clothes washing was always connected to the development level and technical capabilities of individual countries. For example, while automatic washing machines were commonplace in the United States after the end of the Second World War, wooden manual Triumf washing machines were still being produced in Czechoslovakia. This indicates that there were still a great number of villages that did not have electricity. Naturally, the country was able to catch up with the rest of the world very quickly, as the production of the first automatic washing machines here began in 1957 at the Romo factory in Fulnek. It's no wonder then that the washing machine, born in the middle of the 19th century, didn’t become a common household appliance for another 100 years. Man has been washing clothes since time immemorial and it is clear that he’ll need to continue doing so for a long time to come; time will only tell what new technology will become available. 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