Boiler Water Treatment is undertaken to ensure longevity and efficiency of the steam boiler. Combatting corrosion and sludge deposition are two of the main factors involved in any water treatment regime.
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Methods of corrosion control will vary depending upon the type of corrosion encountered. The most common causes of corrosion are dissolved gases (usually oxygen and carbon dioxide), under-deposit attack, low pH, and attack of areas weakened by mechanical stress all of whihch can lead to stress and and fatigue cracking.
These conditions can be controlled using the following principles:
Even the best boiler pre-treatment plant can sometimes leak hardness scale through to the boiler. If this is left unckecked it can form scale around tubes and cause problems with efficiency.
Suspended solids present in the water build up under concentration within the boiler and need to be removed. If untreated these solids can form a hard mud like sludge at the bottom of the boiler making them difficult to remove and potentially blocking tubes. A tailored boiler water treatment will use a sludge carrier to ensure that suspended solids remain in the body of the boiler water and as such are removed at blowdown.
We will tailor the specific sludge carrier to suit your boiler and as such blockages and difficlt to remove sludge will no longer be a problem.