Keep your water treatment system clog-free with antiscalant water treatment chemicals. If your job entails supplying clean water either for municipal consumption, public or for sale, pre-filtering water for use in cooling systems or reintroducing water drawn from the environment after an industrial process, the right antiscalants can protect your filtration system from getting choked by mineral deposits.

A typical water treatment system uses a filtration process, whether micro-to nano-filtration systems or reverse osmosis filters. Minerals, organic compounds and silica form scales on the filters, clogging your system and costing you money in downtime for repair and possibly costs to replace expensive filters. Antiscalant chemicals for water treatment clean off or even prevent the buildup, giving your filters a longer product life-span. Consider three options for using antiscalant products in your water treatment maintenance:

1. Clean out buildup by supplementing major overhauls with antiscalant for water treatment periodically;

2. Use antiscalant regularly as a preventative measure to minimize buildup;

3. Install an antiscalant manufacturer system of filtration and complementary antiscalant chemicals.

Action Steps
The best contacts and resources to help you get it done

Use periodic antiscalant water treatment to extend the time between major filter cleaning

If you have relatively clean water already, or your filtration requirements are less stringent, build in an antiscalant treatment period between cleaning or replacement. This can lower costs by extending the overall life span of the filters, and lower amount of time spent cleaning the filters when the formal maintenance period comes up.

I recommend: BWA Water Additives supplies antiscalant for commercial building and heavy industry cooling systems, oilfield applications, industrial and institutional cleaning and water processes, mining and sugar processing. Accepta manufactures 20 different kinds of antiscalant for wastewater treatment.

Prevent buildup with a steady product flow from antiscalant suppliers

For systems that either must meet more stringent codes, such as drinking water, or must filter harder water to begin with, head off costly filtration system teardowns with a continuous treatment of antiscalant.

I recommend: Koch Membrane Systems manufactures pretreatment antiscalants developed to prevent, rather than remove, scaling. Nalco produces traceable antiscalants to monitor concentration levels. Adding a controller they provide, allows you to maintain a constant level of antiscalant in your system.

Upgrade your filtration structure with antiscalant water systems

If you have an older or less efficient water filtration system, contact an antiscalant chemical manufacturer for a complete system to ensure compatibility between the filters used to clean the water and the antiscalants used to clean the filters.

I recommend: Daico Water Management produces a variety of water filtration systems including reverse osmosis, mineral tank, carbon, ozone and electrodeionization. Operating since 1969, Mar Cor Purification manufactures high-purity water systems for life science, pharmaceutical, semiconductor and industrial applications. Request a catalog for more information.

Tips & Tactics

Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide

• •  Develop a close relationship with the antiscalant supplier, making sure the supplier understands not only the nature of the water you treat but also the level of purity you require. For complex operations, set up a matrix cross-referencing water type and purity level, to guarantee you procure the antiscalant that matches the scale buildup challenge you have.