Ion Exchange Resins for Makeup Water
Pretreatment: Moving Beyond Chemicals
Customized, site-specific ion exchange resins can help facilities that want to push their boundaries of water efficiency and lower their operating costs by moving beyond traditional water treatment methods. We apply proven successful solutions to decrease water and chemical use. By “engineering” a higher makeup water quality, we SAFELY increase cycles of concentration and reduce blowdown while adding no risk to downstream equipment.
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Resins to Selectively Treat Makeup Water
Our techniques work by custom-designing a series of resins to remove the most problematic ions, minerals, and other scale-forming contaminants from the incoming makeup water. We specifically select resin types are capacities to match the cation and anion properties of the resins to the levels of scale-forming contaminants of calcium hardness, magnesium hardness, chlorides, sulfates, and silica, while also optimally balancing pH. Our resins target the removal of only the saturation limiting ions in the water as compared to complete demineralization, which is costly and unnecessary for many applications. By partially removing the targeted ions before traditional scale and corrosion inhibitors are applied, the cooling tower and boiler systems can SAFELY operate at the desired maximum saturation indexes and achieve higher “cycles of concentration”.
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10%-25% NET WATER USE REDUCTION
Custom resins allow facilities to increase cooling tower water efficiency from 2-3 cycles to over 8 cycles.
REDUCED CHEMICAL USE
Resin-based treatment technology are environmentally friendly and reduce the need for hauling and transporting chemicals.
PROVIDES LEED CREDITS
Reduced chemical consumption and increased water conservation allows facilities to apply for LEED credits.
NO ADDED RISK TO CRITICAL HEAT EXCHANGERS
Resins have been proven across a range of commercial and industrial facilities, and has been engineered to maintain or improve facility operational performance.
ATTRACTIVE ROI
All resin systems are geared towards a quick ROI for facilities.
COMPLIANCE WITH COOLING TOWER MANUFACTURER WATER QUALITY GUIDELINES
Resin solutions meet all cooling tower water quality requirements throughout the life of the system.
How it works?
- Analyze existing water treatment program and makeup water quality
- Add or optimize water softener
- Engineer resin composition to the site
- Re-tailor downstream chemical treatment plan
- Explore options for onsite or offsite resin regeneration plan
Additional Environmental Benefits
Beyond the benefits of lowering operating expenses for cooling towers and boilers, adding resin pretreatment can be critical for helping facilities who face the threat of exceeding sewer discharge limits from their blowdown or bleed water. Selective contaminant removal means less chemicals need to be applied downstream.
For facilities interested in reducing their carbon footprint, specialized resin pretreatment can also help in the following ways:
- Less chemicals need to be manufactured and shipped from around the globe to your facility
- Lower makeup water usage means less energy is consumed treating and conveying city water
- Your municipal water treatment system will expend less energy treating wastewater from your facility
- With options for onsite resin regeneration, your system can further lower the carbon cost of operation
- Resins can be regenerated without sodium chloride or other salts if required by local utility or government
