Dr. Ernest Blatchley
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
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Well, I mean, again, the hygiene thing is the best way to go.
But humans are sort of strange creatures in that we don't change our habits rapidly.
And those habits are formed over long periods of time.
So
There are technologies that will intentionally break those compounds down so that they don't have the opportunity to react with chlorine.
So, in the swimming community, indoor air quality is a big deal because it has the potential to adversely affect the athletes.
But I think for just everyday swimmers also, it's a relevant issue.
So,
The swimming community broadly is interested in improving indoor air quality.
And I was contacted about the Paris Olympics and the company that installs the facility that was built there, the temporary indoor pools that are used for many high-level competitions, because they had apparently read some of the work that we had published and
Because there was an opportunity there to conduct an experiment that would allow us to evaluate the performance of this air stripping system that was developed specifically for that purpose.
Sure.
So air stripping is a process that promotes the transfer of volatile chemicals from the liquid phase to the gas phase.
So basically what we want to do is literally strip those volatile chemicals from the water.
And the way that this is often done is to introduce tiny bubbles into water in a controlled setting, and then having those bubbles move upward through the water.
And as they do, the volatile chemicals will move into the bubble.
And then if you can collect the air off the top of that column, whatever that water column is, and send it away from the water, or in this case away from the pool,
then you have a mechanism to basically bypass where the people would ordinarily be breathing it.
Exactly, to the outside.
I mean, they're going to end up outside regardless.
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