Since 1774 when Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele discovered chlorine, scientists have been experimenting with the chemical element. Around the time of World War I, researchers discovered that injecting salt water with electrical current resulted in sodium hypochlorite. It’s been the go-to-chemical for water treatment ever since. But corrosive chemicals multiply water treatment costs.
The problem, though, is that it is incredibly corrosive, and will destroy water treatment equipment if given the chance. And that creates another problem: the cost of maintaining equipment in the face of corrosion.
The experts at Innova can evaluate your water treatment system and determine where your problem areas are. Then we’ll prescribe the best water treatment solutions.
Widespread use, rising maintenance costs
For nearly 100 years, water treatment systems around the world have been using sodium hypochlorite to produce safe drinking water. It’s safe when handled correctly and low cost, and effective in places where there’s enough water to drink and it’s not too turbid.
The substance plays a vital role in many industries for production or disinfection. It’s used in the making of paper and textiles, disinfecting drinking water and controlling odor at wastewater facilities.
But the use of NaOCl comes with its own set of problems.
In concentrated doses, its pH level rises and it will burn and become corrosive. The chemical can eat away concrete and steel and glass over your injection quills. The glassing over can happen every week or two. That results in rising maintenance costs and even costly down time for your equipment.
Though sodium hypochlorite is a low-cost, common ingredient in water treatment around the world, it can cause costly maintenance problems.
How We Help Lower Water Treatment Costs
Once you call Innova for advice, our innovative team will investigate your water-treatment protocols. Then we’ll determine your best course of action to produce the best water, with the lowest maintenance and production costs. In other words, lower water treatment costs.
If you’ve got an ongoing problem with scale-buildup because of your chemical use, or your injection quills are glassing over every week or two, we’ll put together the best solution to save your gear. We’ve got anti-scalants to scrape the buildup from your equipment. Or there’s our scale-inhibited bleach to keep scaling from even starting.
Whatever your maintenance problem, our team of industry-recognized experts will find a solution to save you money.
Give us a call at 800-747-9953 to lower your water treatment costs today.
