Boiler Feed
Discover Puretech Water Systems’ solutions for Steam Boiler Reverse Osmosis, providing high-quality water for steam boilers to enhance efficiency and reduce blowdown.
Without doubt, estates and building services managers are looking for ways of controlling their budgets. On the whole, this is because energy and water costs in particular are drastically rising. Unquestionably, boiler feedwater reverse osmosis quality control is on the whole a pragmatic approach to reducing costs and improving energy efficiency.
Over the past 10 years, there has been an increase in the number of sites investing in reverse osmosis technology. For that reason, enhancing the water for steam boilers is a fantastic way of increasing the longevity of the system. To clarify, this is typically a reverse osmosis system designated to the boiler feed supply.
The Solution:
Installing a reverse osmosis plant provides a boiler feedwater reverse osmosis system with purified water. Comparatively, this pure water supply from a reverse osmosis plant contains very low levels of conductivity.
In brief, most steam boilers are blown down based on the level of conductivity within the chamber. For example, a typical blowdown set-point for steam boilers is around 2500 micro siemens.
Incoming mains water conductivity varies across regions. On average, the conductivity level can range between 350 to 750 micro siemens.
A reverse osmosis plant used for boiler feed water RO will lower these conductivity levels by around 95% – 99%.
Purified water treated by our systems typically reduces the conductivity to approximately 10 – 30 micro siemens.
Conclusion:
Lower conductivity through clean steam generation results in the steam boiler taking much longer to reach its blowdown set-point, thereby reducing the number of blowdowns required.
In other words, this leads to reduced energy costs to reheat the boiler and a decrease in the volume of water required. In conclusion, it’s a far more environmentally friendly practice that reduces the amount of boiler chemicals needed.
We design bespoke systems that supply reverse osmosis water to the boiler feed. Besides reverse osmosis systems, we also offer water softeners from our comprehensive portfolio.
Contact us today to learn more about our steam boiler reverse osmosis solutions and how they can benefit your operations.
Our System
What is a Water Softener?
A water softener is used to remove hardness from the incoming towns mains water supply.
For instance, this is achieved by removing the calcium and magnesium ions. These ions would otherwise cause scaling within a water system. Scaling can present itself in many ways.
Below is a list of the most common effects of scaling;
- Water heaters scaling impedes on their ability to heat water efficiently.
- Scaling on glassware such as shower screens and glasses is unhygienic and cosmetically unappealing.
- The scaling on tap outlets and scale build up within water holding tanks can have detrimental effects on systems.
Water softeners remove the calcium and magnesium ions and traps them on its filter surface which acts as a magnet.
Therefore, we exchange these calcium and magnesium ions for sodium ions which, in turn, creates softened water. Summing up, this results in water ready for consumption.
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Chiefly, Puretech Water Systems (UK) Ltd specialise in water treatment and process filtration. Consequently, Puretech Water Systems (UK) Ltd work across multiple sectors providing water processing solutions.
Interested? Find out more about water softening systems with Puretech Water Systems (UK) Ltd.
Find more information here: https://puretechsystems.co.uk/industrial-water-softeners/
How does Reverse Osmosis work?
Reverse Osmosis is a high-pressure water process which forces water to be treated through a semi permeable reverse osmosis membrane. So, the membrane has two outlet channels. One being the permeate water (Purified) which passes the heavily filtered water onto the point of use application. This purified water typically has around 98% of the incoming contaminants removed, such as dissolved salts, bacteria, organics and pyrogens.
On the other hand, the other outlet is where the rejected water (Concentrate) is sent directly to drain.
In some cases, this concentrate water can be re-circulated back to the front of the reverse osmosis plant and re-processed. In conclusion, this particular process can significantly reduce water wastage.
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Chiefly, Puretech Water Systems (UK) Ltd specialise in water treatment and process filtration. Consequently, Puretech Water Systems (UK) Ltd work across multiple sectors providing water processing solutions.
Interested? Find out more about reverse osmosis systems with Puretech Water Systems (UK) Ltd.
Find more information here: https://puretechsystems.co.uk/industrial-reverse-osmosis/
Benefits of Reverse Osmosis Water Systems
