What Is a Phosphonate Used for in Water Treatment?
If you’ve ever pulled a boiler tube or cracked open a cooling tower heat exchanger and found a crusty white or rust-brown coating inside, you’ve seen exactly what phosphonates exist to prevent. A phosphonate is a chemical compound used in industrial water treatment to stop scale from forming, keep dissolved metal ions from precipitating out, […]
How to Maintain Cooling Tower Water Quality: A Practical Guide to Scale, Corrosion and Microbial Control
A cooling tower’s entire job is to get rid of heat by evaporating water, and that’s exactly where the trouble starts. Every litre that evaporates leaves its dissolved minerals behind, so the water still circulating gets a little more concentrated with every hour the tower runs. Left alone, that concentration climbs until it starts depositing […]
Common Boiler Water Treatment Problems and How to Prevent Them
Every industrial boiler runs on water, and that’s exactly where most of its problems start. Feedwater almost never arrives clean. It carries dissolved minerals, gases, and traces of whatever the source and pretreatment system didn’t catch. Once that water is heated, pressurized and cycled through the system again and again, anything it’s carrying gets concentrated. […]
