为支持将臭氧纳入“合规技术”而开发的调查数据表明，在已知于1998年初投入运行的260多个美国城市臭氧装置中，超过一半位于处理量小于1 MGD的系统中（例如，服务人数小于10000人的工厂）。此外，还确定了另外363个社区、非社区和单一家庭臭氧装置，使用了一种新型臭氧（基于紫外线产生）和过滤工艺。本文探讨了美国正在进行的这项调查的数据，以解释如何在小型系统应用中安全有效地使用臭氧。特别详细介绍了如何简化工程子系统的其他相当复杂的要求，例如臭氧发生器、原料气处理、电源、气体/液体接触和接触器关闭- 气体破坏。将介绍小型臭氧氧化系统的设计、性能、资本和运营成本，并结合过滤系统讨论臭氧技术的一些基本方面。

Survey data developed to support the inclusion of ozone as a "Compliance Technology" identified that over half of the more than 260 US municipal ozone installations known to be operating in early 1998 are in systems treating less than 1 MGD (e.g., plants that serve less than 10,000 persons). An additional 363 community, non-community and single family ozone installations using a novel ozone (based on ultraviolet generation) and filtration process also were identified. This paper explores the data from this on-going US survey to explain how ozone can be used safely and effectively in small systems applications. Special detail is paid to the simplification of otherwise rather complex requirements of engineered subsystems, e.g., the ozone generator, feed gas treatment, power supply, gas/liquid contacting, and contactor off-gas destruction. Design of small ozonation systems, performance, capital and operating costs will be presented, along with a discussion of some basic aspects of ozone technology in combination with filtration systems.