Residential water treatment is essential for ensuring clean and safe drinking water for households while also maintaining the purity of water in garden ponds and aquatic environments.
Water filtration systems play a crucial role in this process, employing various technologies to remove contaminants and impurities from water sources.
Reverse osmosis (RO) systems are commonly used in residential settings, and the addition of antiscalants enhances their efficiency. These antiscalants are crucial for preventing scale buildup on RO membranes, ensuring optimal performance and extending the lifespan of the filtration system.
In addition to RO systems, micro and ultrafiltration technologies are also utilised in residential water treatment. Specialised cleaning chemicals are employed to remove severe organic foulants from these filtration systems, ensuring their continued effectiveness. These cleaning chemicals are designed to dissolve carbonate and phosphate scales, disperse inorganic particles, and target specific types of fouling common in micro and ultrafiltration membranes.
Maintaining the purity of water in homes extends beyond drinking water to include garden ponds and aquatic environments. Diatomix offers a natural and effective solution for controlling algae and promoting overall water health in these settings. Specifically designed for garden pond algae control, Diatomix harnesses the power of diatom algae to naturally oxygenate water and maintain its clarity. By promoting the growth of diatom algae, Diatomix helps to create a healthy ecosystem in garden ponds, ensuring the well-being of aquatic life and enhancing the aesthetic appeal of outdoor spaces.
Residential water treatment encompasses various technologies and solutions aimed at ensuring clean and safe water for households. From water filtration systems with reverse osmosis antiscalants to micro and ultrafiltration specialised cleaning chemicals, these treatments play a vital role in maintaining water purity.
Product and customer insights
CHALLENGE A power plant relying on ultrafiltration (UF) and reverse osmosis (RO) faced a critical operational challenge. A wastewater treatment upset severely fouled the UF system, drastically reducing water production. Despite multiple cleaning attempts with sodium hypochlorite and citric acid, transmembrane pressure (TMP) remained high, and flux showed no improvement. The plant’s inability to meet […]
CHALLENGE A gold processing plant in New Zealand sought to improve gold recovery efficiency while addressing high Total Organic Carbon (TOC) levels. Elevated TOC increased the Preg-Robbing Factor (PRF), reducing the plant’s ability to efficiently recover gold during the Carbon-In-Leach (CIL) process. The traditional use of kerosene as a carbon blanking agent offered limited efficacy, […]
CHALLENGE A municipal water reuse plant processing 8 million gallons per day (MGD) experienced severe fouling and scaling issues, including calcium phosphate and silica deposits. With steep feed pressure increases and differential pressures in both stages, the plant required frequent cleanings every 4 to 6 weeks, amounting to 32 cleanings annually. Each cleaning cycle resulted […]
The plant was experiencing weekly shutdowns for fiber clean up (~ 3 kg bags of matted slurry is cleaned per week). The shut downs were costly as they reduce plant availability for production.
CHALLENGE A municipal reverse osmosis (RO) plant on Florida’s west coast, with a 20 MGD capacity, faced high operational costs due to its reliance on 93% sulfuric acid for pH adjustment. The plant used a combination of a brackish water reverse osmosis (BWRO) membranes and fiberglass-wrapped membranes across 10 trains, each operating at 75% recovery. […]
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CHALLENGE A municipal reverse osmosis (RO) plant, with a capacity of 2 million gallons per day (MGD), faced frequent system cleanings, every 2-4 months, due to rising feed pressure. The plant, which sources water from brackish wells and uses Toray TMG-20D-400 membranes in a (16×7) -> (8×7) train configuration, was operating at 78% recovery. Despite […]
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AWC A-110 effectively inhibited scale at a dosage of 3.5 ppm and an operating pH of 6.9. This increase in operating pH reduced the district’s annual acid consumption by ~$350K per year based on their current production.
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Despite numerous cleanings, the productivity of the Reverse Osmosis plant would not recover from severe membrane fouling. The membrane autopsy revealed that the ferric hydroxide was seeding
silica polymerization and that even while the ferric hydroxide was removed, the silica scaling was continuing to grow.
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