| Case History #301 - Water Treatment that Pays | |
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H-O-H Chemicals water treatment
expertise saves Health Care Facility $15,000 Per Year in water
treatment costs! |
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When we began our work at a large hospital in northern Illinois, the hospital’s steam boiler water system was using an average of 10,000 gallons of softened makeup water per day. There was evidence of scale in the boiler, and the condensate samples showed high levels of soluble iron and copper along with unusually high levels of amines. |
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For a high profile facility in the Midwest, decorative
fountains were using a typical treatment approach of bromine tablets plus
algaecide. Although the products seemed to work well for a period of time,
the low flow areas would eventually build up with impurities and organics
that would contaminate the rest of the system, causing ongoing problems.
These problems ranged from plugged up strainers, shooters, and pads to
heavy foaming. The free Bromine would be consumed before it reached the
low flow areas. It took a great deal of bromine tablets to generate a
bromine residual, which inevitably led to overfeeding of chemical. The
large feed of Bromine generated a strong chlorine odor that was irritating
to many pedestrians.
