By using resin to remove the water’s hardness, industrial water softeners prepare your water for industrial use. The resin serves as an industrial hard water treatment, replacing the water’s hardness with salt (brine) that is periodically renewed. The harsh manganese, iron, calcium, and magnesium ions from your incoming water supply are removed through a process known as ion exchange. You will use less detergent, notice less hard water buildup, spend less money on repairs from unneeded damage to industrial equipment, and be able to run your business more efficiently with softening. Ranging from complex manufacturing to washing
How Industrial Water Softeners Operate
For the effective operation and maintenance of expensive machinery, industrial systems’ incoming water must have the necessary mineral balance. A consistent final result must be delivered as well. To continue the industrial process, industrial water softeners reduce unwanted minerals like calcium and magnesium to a predetermined and monitored level.
Industrial water purification and softening processes convert unfit-for-industrial-use water into water that is free of pollutants and sediment and has the proper pH balance. Your industrial water will meet or exceed standards for industrial water purification under the experienced guidance of City Water Purifier, ensuring that inspections go without a problem. Based on the requirements of your facility, its process specifications, and the amount and flow rate needed for your systems, we will carefully design the ideal industrial water treatment solution.
Our industrial water softeners are offered in corrosion-resistant carbon steel or fiberglass tanks for total customization. High-end flow technology helps to reduce long-term maintenance costs as well as initial costs. This technology continuously monitors water demand and switches the industrial water softener on or off depending on changes in flow demand. This makes it possible to create an unique industrial water softener system that is designed correctly for your process requirements, saving money both upfront and over the course of maintenance. The most comprehensive series of industrial water softeners available is City Water Purifier, which satisfies the most specific requirement for hardness and scale removal.
The incoming water must pass through a porous resin bed as part of the industrial water softening system. This resin resembles microscopic plastic beads in both appearance and substance. Each small bead in this collection of delicate beads has been created and treated to be extremely porous. Moreover, the surface area undergoes long-term chemical modification to make it highly attractive to the wrongdoing minerals.
The resin’s surface sites have an affinity for minerals like calcium and magnesium that have electron charges of positive two and higher. It is possible to extract more minerals having a comparable valence. The efficient operation of the water softening system depends on a thorough study of the entering water.
The water softener vessel, which is filled with a resin bed, receives incoming water. The water’s speed decreases as it spreads across the bed’s larger surface area and moves through the countless tiny beads. The minerals in the water are drawn to the resin surface regions during this process. After being liberated from the mineral-laden resin bed, the water leaves with a negligible hydraulic head pressure loss. The minerals that give water its hardness are drawn into the resin bed.
The effectiveness of the water softener gradually decreases as minerals cover the surface area of each bed of resin, though. The machinery needed to regenerate these resin beds is a necessary component of a full industrial water softening system. To give the initial resin bed time to recharge, there is typically a second resin bed that can be activated. The first bed’s regeneration can begin after water is switched to the second bed.
The option is to stop the water from leaking out while the regeneration process is taking place. This might be possible if the need for softened water is restricted to just one or two shifts.
When washed with water that contains a very high concentration of sodium ions (i.e., very “salty” water), which replaces the calcium and magnesium ions on the resin, the resin will “give up” its considerably higher affinity for calcium and magnesium ions. Before being put back into use, the resin bed is lastly cleaned with water to eliminate extra salt.
What Size Commercial Water Softener System Do You Need?
Two different factors are used to size commercial softeners:
Exchange Capacity: The amount of water given between regenerations is known as the exchange capacity. The amount of ion exchange resin in the softener and the amount of salt used for resin regeneration also play a role.
Maximum Flow Rate: The amount of water that can be used at any given time during peak demand. This information, which is measured in gallons per minute and is crucial to record in the event of a non-continuous water supply (GPM)
Advantages of Industrial and Commercial Water Softeners
There are lots of advantages of commercial and industrial water softener solutions, but a few standouts are as follows:
- Lower Chemical Costs / Consumption
- Less Energy Consumption
- Longer Appliance/Equipment Life
- Reduced Costs of Repair and Maintenance
- Improved Water Quality Consistency
FAQ’s: Industrial Water Softener
What is an Industrial Water Softener?
Industrial water softeners use resin to modify your water so that it is suitable for industrial use. The resin serves as a solution for industrial hard water, replacing the hardness in the water with salt (brine) that is periodically renewed.
How Does an Industrial Softener Work?
Ion exchange is used by a water softener to remove minerals that are present in water sources naturally. By interacting with magnesium, calcium, and other metallic minerals, sodium molecules coated on plastic resin beads filter water.
How Many Types of Softener are there?
There are four main categories of water softeners: magnetic, dual-tank, salt-based, and salt-free.
Why is it Necessary to Soften Industrial Water?
There are many advantages to using a commercial or industrial water softening system, including increased equipment efficiency and lower operating expenses. Hard, untreated water eventually causes equipment, appliances, and pipe scaling and mineral deposit buildup.