Middle East processor tackles scale build up in steam boilers

London - Jordan Valley Food Co. a food processing factory based in Amman, Jordan has added a new water conditioning unit to tackle severe scale build up and corrosion problems on the inside of asteam boiler. The problems related to the factory being based in a hard water area.

The company, which prepares and packs broad beans, chickpeas and kidney beans, installed Hydropath's Hydroflow S45 -a patented physical water treatment system that prevents limescale deposits by emitting randomly-varying electric fields throughout the system. This enhances the precipitation of the bicarbonates from solution to suspension by introducing clusters of ions to act as seed for suspended crystallisation.

The resulting suspension  does not adhere to pipe work or internal surfaces, but is merely 'washed away' with the flow and during blow down. No other physical water treatment system operates in the same way as Hydroflow as it treats the whole system and dissolve existing scale in the system.

Before the installation of the unit on the water inlet pipe of the boiler, the pipes were covered in thick brown scale and a large amount of rust and corrosion. Following the installation, the depth of the existing scale was dramatically reduced, and the surface of the pipes was described as ‘very smooth’. Improvements were also noted in terms of reduced cleaning and maintenance time, and decreased operating costs due to less energy wasted heating up limescale.