Comparison Factors of Choosing the Best Water Softeners

Water hardness - its content of dissolved calcium and magnesium salts. The total content of these salts is called total hardness. Magnesium and potassium bicarbonates carbonate form (temporary) rigidity which is completely eliminated by prolonged boiling of water, but becomes insoluble precipitate with evolution of carbon dioxide. Remaining after boiling is called the stiffness constant. How is it manifested?

• The appearance of lime on the heating elements, which reduces their thermal conductivity and ultimately brings down the equipment.
• Hard water pipes reduce the working section area, which leads to an increase of the hydraulic resistance.
• A white coating on plumbing.

Hard water contains high concentrations of minerals which are not washed off, covering the skin and hair invisible film, which creates discomfort (dry skin, makes the hair dull and weak).

When renovating your heating system or bathroom, when building your home, it is important that you analyse the quality of the water that feeds your home to keep the beauty and performance of your sanitary or heating system intact. The water softener makes it possible to perpetuate your property heritage and avoid costly repairs, and contrary to the ideas received on softeners, makes it possible to optimize investments in ecological equipment and to act in favour of sustainable development by significantly reducing its Consumption of energy or detergents.

On the other hand, it is very important to choose an efficient professional softener, compatible with its needs, to avoid any unpleasant surprises later, in particular in terms of salt and water consumption, or in terms of the availability of spare parts for Models of GSB of little known brands and poor performance.

Performance and choice of a softener

A softener is characterized by:

• Its resin volume
• The weight of salt used per regeneration and the corresponding exchange power
• Its regeneration efficiency
• Its nominal flow (flow with pressure drop of 0.1 MPA ie 1 bar)
• Its maximum permissible flow
• Its flow-loss-of-load curve
• The autonomy of its salt tray (in number of regenerations between two recharges)
• Its mode of triggering regenerations
• The ancillary equipment included (general by-pass, non-return valves, disinfection device, sewage siphon with breakage of load, filter, etc.)

The criteria for choosing a softener are as follows:

• The hardness of the water to be treated
• The desired residual hardness (at the softener outlet)
• The daily water consumption (which depends on the number of people and the number of appliances to be supplied)
• The instantaneous flow to be met (depending on the type and number of appliances to be supplied with softened water)
• The available water pressure and the permissible pressure drop

Choosing the right water softener (domestic or industrial water softener)

Depending on the hardness of your water and the composition of your fireplace, you must choose a volume of resin adapted to your needs knowing that there is no notion of over-sizing with a softener when the number of people in the housing decreases. An under-dimensioning (sometimes necessary due to lack of space) will simply lead to a slight increase in the number of regenerations for an incremental cost of water and marginal salt compared to the savings generated by a softener.

Over-sizing a softener, besides paying more for your device, will leave the water "stagnate" longer in the resins. Sub-dimensioning generates more regeneration (thus a little more water and salt consumed). Furthermore, the resin volume rule, depending on the number of persons or the volume of water to be treated, does not work with equipment using high-performance resins.

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