Even small boiler water quality issues can lead to scale formation, corrosion, reduced efficiency, increased fuel consumption and costly breakdowns.
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This guide considers the use of water tube boilers and how they are used in industrial steam generation applications. Developed by the boiler specialists at Water Treatment Services the guide explains how to recognise tube boilers, how they work and where they are used. It also looks the main components of theses systems and the advantages and disadvantages of this type of steam generator.
If your steam boiler or hot water heating systems are not running at optimum efficiency then you could be wasting more money than you think. Inefficient boilers and poorly performing heating systems can result in higher fuel costs, lower thermal performance, more down-time and increased maintenance bills. However, it is possible to improve performance and reduce these costs by improving the quality of the water which feeds into your boiler system. This is can be done using specialist boiler water treatment chemicals or some other way of purifying the water. In low pressure boilers, water purification and pre-treatment would usually involve ion-exchange. However, with high pressure boilers where the pressures required in the boiler are significantly higher, the quality of the boiler feed water needs to be much better, and this can be achieved using a reverse osmosis (RO) pre-treatment process.