Hi recently doing a project .

I recently bought an ozone generator which is used for clarification of wastewater .

 

Everything was working fine until droplets of water began appearing on the outlet tubes of the ozone generator .

 

Thus I was wondering if it was possible that this happened because there is an air leak in the output section of the generator which causes the outside air to react with the O to create H2O ?

There are lots of ozone generators, so it is impossible to know what is wrong with yours.

Dielectric ozone generator . With pure oxygen from cylinder as input .

Sounds like ambient moisture condensing on the colder pipe caused by leaking oxygen.

Is it air or water cooled?

 

General steps would be to swap out the oxygen cylinder, tighten your fittings and test for leaks.

It is air cooled . With a fan cooling the ozone generators .

 

Is it air or water cooled?

 

General steps would be to swap out the oxygen cylinder, tighten your fittings and test for leaks.

Sounds like ambient moisture condensing on the colder pipe caused by leaking oxygen.

I am using PTFE ( Teflon ) tubes . The problem is the water is inside the tubes at the output of the ozone generator .

 

So I am just wondering if it is possible that when outside air leaks into the output ozone generator tubes could it create H2O ?

 

Or could it be water from the input oxygen cylinder ?

It could condense from the outside air, but not form. For that you will need free H₂ in the air.

It could condense from the outside air, but not form. For that you will need free H₂ in the air.

Erm , there are H_{2 in the air right ? so if they come in contact with O they will create H2O ?}

 

 

Edited March 31, 201510 yr by t00t

Erm , there are H₂ in the air right ?

No, or at least very nearly none.

On the other hand, there's quite a lot of water in the air.

It is air cooled . With a fan cooling the ozone generators .

 

I am using PTFE ( Teflon ) tubes . The problem is the water is inside the tubes at the output of the ozone generator .

 

So I am just wondering if it is possible that when outside air leaks into the output ozone generator tubes could it create H2O ?

 

Or could it be water from the input oxygen cylinder ?

When the decompressing oxygen meets some of the water molecules in the air, energy is transferred to them causing the water molecules to condense. Escaping gas feels cold..

Is it possible that there is water vapour in the cylinder of oxygen ?

 

But if so why do I only see water droplets at the output of the generator not the input ?

Even if there was liquid water in the bottom of the cylinder there would be very little in the gas phase after it expanded- far too little to condense out at any sensible temperature.

 

That water yo see is almost certainly from the air, which suggests that there's a leak somewhere.