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Title: Review of chemistry work
Post by: RichardFalk on August 19, 2009, 10:24:40 PM
I am a new member here, but am unsure as to where to post if I would like someone very competent in chemistry (mostly inorganic chemistry) to review work that I have done in the areas of swimming pool water chemistry.  I am a pool owner with no PhD and do not work in the industry nor do anything with chemistry or physics in my work (it's S/W engineering and management).  So I'd like someone to double-check my work, give feedback and suggestions, etc.  The following are some examples of posts/threads I've written/started:

Derivation of the Free Chlorine / Cyanuric Acid ratio as a proxy (http://www.troublefreepool.com/post50548.html#p50548)
Chloramines and Free Chlorine / Cyanuric Acid (http://www.troublefreepool.com/chloramines-and-fc-cya-t10257.html)
Degradation of Cyanuric Acid (http://www.troublefreepool.com/degradation-of-cyanuric-acid-cya-t8880.html)
Water Absorption and Heating from Sunlight (http://www.troublefreepool.com/water-absorption-and-heating-from-sunlight-t9604.html)
Solar Panel Technology Comparisons (http://www.troublefreepool.com/solar-panel-technology-comparisons-t9648.html)

I'm trying to bring some level of factual science to the pool/spa industry but I have zero credibility.  I've written spreadsheets on Pool Equations (http://richardfalk.home.comcast.net/~richardfalk/pool/PoolEquations.xls), Breakpoint Chlorination modeling (http://richardfalk.home.comcast.net/~richardfalk/pool/Breakpoint.xls), Absorption of chlorine in water of sunlight (http://richardfalk.home.comcast.net/~richardfalk/pool/Water-Absorption.xls), among others.  I know that what I have done is very basic and not much more than what would be done in 1st year college chemistry (though the PoolEquations spreadsheet was quite tedious).  I figure that if I can at least say that some things have been validated by someone with more credibility, then I might have a better chance at getting some things changed/improved.  What I would like to see in the pool/spa industry is the following:


Thanks,
Richard