Water Softeners

Call up 2/3 water Treatment guys in your area selling water softening plants or underetaking services of testing your softener water on a monthly basis.

They will tell you in detail as to the instruments they carry to do such tests and when to take corrective actions.

You also need to do your own studies by sitting down on the internet and dowloading books related to your question. Study helps believe me!!!!!

Softener media is usually ion exchange resin, which is one of a number of types of possible plastic molecules with a number substituted ionic groups on the molecule.

Ion exchange resins usually last a longer time chemically than they do physically. Mechanical attrition is the usual cause of resin loss, as the bits can find themselves in the next cartridge filter downstream.

Inidicators to look for are a higher frequency of regenerations than the equipment manufacturer commissioned and a high dirt load in the downstream filters that requires a more frequent change-out than normal.

It is worth checking planned preventative maintenance records to review resin top-up frequency, and volumes used.

It is also worth contacting the original equipment supplier and the original resin supplier for further advice.

Thank you PW slack, thank you ducon ,

actually our softener receive row water and then feeds directly to Deaerator for steam boiler , no cartridge filter in between . regeneration is done frequently automatic through stager controller timer.

I'm looking for chemical or similar test to compare between inlet and outlet water, accordingly we can know if ours softener is working correctly or it's only a closed container which receiving water from one side and discharge it from the other side

Yours advice or guidance for suitable web site is highly appreciated

advice or guidance for suitable web site is highly appreciated - Ask sb/ Xmech / PW slack they are very very good in this. Email them.

The easiest indicator of resin exhaustion and the need to regenerate is the outlet water conductivity. Once this starts to rise towards the end of the batch, the resin needs regeneration. For this reason, conductivity sensors are sometimes positioned a little way off the bottom of the bed, so that, when the "regeneration due" indication comes up, there's still some un-exhausted resin left in the vessel to continue the batch and produce good water for a little while. Conductivity equipment is widely available from a number of sources, and the particular circumstances would indicate which instrument is best for the application. The products of Endress + Hauser <usual disclaimer> and Thornton <usual disclaimer> are high up on the list of possibilities.

If there is no cartridge filter downstream of the resin vessel, then there is a risk that resin bead fragments, having passed through the bottom distributors in the resin vessel, will end up in the deaerator and also the boiler. Some of it will settle, and be flushed out of the deaerator during periodic cleaning maintenance activities. Some of it will end up as suspended solids that will flush out of the boiler with the blowdown stream. Some of it will end up as an organic film on the heat exchange surfaces, which is bad news for those surfaces and also the fuel bill. Some of it will decompose and the decomposition products will be carried out in the steam line to the user equipment, where it might foul the heat exchange surfaces there, leading to a drop in performance. So the recommendation has to be one of installing a cartridge filter downstream of the resin vessel at the earliest opportunity, as the payback from such an investment is very high!

Intervals between "regeneration due" indications will shorten slowly over time, and somewhere there will be an economic balance between the need and expense of regeneration and the need and expense of topping-up the resin. Local circumstances will determine where the balance point lies.

very short but fully useful answer , thank you PWSLack and GA from me

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