Disadvantages of a Typical Chemical Installation:
- Must feed acid and inhibitors to reduce water wastage to 10-20% range.
- Requires control systems for conductivity (blow down), pH acid, inhibitor and biocide
- Significantly higher corrosion rates and increased risk for scaling with failure of even one of the multiple control systems
- Chemical handling and storage risks
- Costly "Bleed and Feed" Treatment
Microbiological Attack:
Colony of Iron Bacteria
Scale Deposits:
This pipe is almost plugged with scale
Corrosion Deposits:
Corrosion inside pipes
HOW WCTI PROGRAM WORKS:
- Proprietary pre-conditioning system removes scale-forming ions from tower make-up
- Unlimited tower concentrations (10-600X)
- Soluble silica controlled at 200-800 Mg/L
- Polymerized silica protects metals at high TDS
- High TDS and high pH (more than 9pH) prohibits bio and pathogen growth
WCTI ZLD Installation:
- Tower makeup water simply passes through WCTI pre-conditioning system
- Water wastage is reduced to 0-5% range
- No chemical or control systems required
- Corrosion almost zero and scale risk eliminated with removal of hardness ions from makeup
- Environmentally friendly / no toxic chemicals
- Just maintain salt in tank / low usage design
WCTI PROGRAM BENEFITS:
- Reduces total treatment cost by 60-70%
- Ideal corrosion protection (less than 0.1 MPY) for steel, copper, galvanized and aluminium
- Non-toxic program / eliminates discharge
- No chemical handling and storage
- Reduced testing and Operator time
- Eliminates "Bleed and Feed" chemistry
- Eliminates heat transfer loss, thus saving on power consumption