Commercial Water Filtration Systems
Why have a Commercial Water Filtration System?
A commercial water filtration system is important for nearly any type of business, helping to improve efficiency and maintain equipment. Contaminants can adversely affect your plumbing system and jeopardize operations, but an effective filtration system can substantially reduce the risk of build-up.
Boilers and other pieces of equipment can become damaged due to excessive metals and minerals, hard water, acidic or alkaline water and more. Don’t let your business suffer time-consuming and expensive breakdowns. Install a commercial water filtration can prevent shutdowns and extend the life of expensive equipment.
Calcite Filters
Calcite filters can neutralise the pH and increase the alkalinity. Calcite is a naturally occurring calcium carbonate media. One of the advantages of Calcite is its self-limiting property. When properly applied, it corrects pH only enough to reach a non-corrosive equilibrium.
Upon contact with calcite, acidic waters slowly dissolve the calcium carbonate to raise the pH which reduces potential leaching of copper, lead and other metals found in typical plumbing systems.
Periodic backwashing will prevent packing, reclassify the bed and maintain high service rates. Depending on pH, water chemistry and service flow, the Calcite bed will have to be periodically replenished as the Calcite is depleted. As the Calcite’s calcium carbonate neutralises the water, it will increase hardness and a softener may become necessary after the neutralisation.
Water Softeners
Water softeners are typically used for removing calcium carbonate, manganese, iron and hardness from water sources and are regenerated by brine solutions. The treated water is soft and non-staining.
Benefits of Water Softeners for Your Business
- Good quality water is just as important as the coffee beans or produce that you choose. Image and perception are everything in business. Filtered water will improve the taste of tea, coffee, soups etc.
- Spot free glasses and dishes
- Improve the aesthetics of kitchen and bathroom fixtures by, eliminating scale and staining. Increase the life of commercial kitchen appliances and fixtures throughout your business.
- A water softener can lower your operating costs by reducing your chemical costs and energy consumption by up to 40%.
- Increase the life of your equipment and improve the return on investment. Water softeners reduce the scale build up and internal corrosion caused by water contaminants, saving your business money.
Commercial Activated Carbon Filters
Activated carbon has proven to be ideally suited to filter tastes, odours and contaminants from water. Activated carbon is a form of carbon that has been processed to increase the porosity of the individual granules, resulting in a large surface area available for adsorption. A larger surface area is an important factor in the adsorption of contaminants because it provides a better environment for the assimilation of dissolved matter. Carbon’s relative low cost and wide availability make it an excellent media suitable for a broad range of applications. Carbon must be backwashed regularly to reduce the risk of biofouling occurring. Carbon filters don’t cope well with sediment loads, it’s therefore common to have a mixed bed filter installed prior to handle this.
Commercial Automated Mixed Bed Water Filtration
Australia is a first world country and its mains water is safe to drink. So why pay money to have it filtered? All water sources, mains water, bore water or rainwater, have a variety of chemicals, bacteria and acidity in them. Most of these unwanted bi products are harmless in this diluted state, however, long term they can affect your health, the taste of the water, its ability to clean effectively, can cause damage to the infrastructure of your business and reduce the life of appliances.
Mixed bed filters are used for sediment removal over a wide range of flow rates. Due to a much larger surface area and the ability to be backwashed the dirt holding/handling capability of a mixed bed filter is far superior to cartridges. The beds can be made up of different filtering sands and filtration media.
Benefits of Automated Mixed Bed Water Filtration
- Good quality water is just as important as the coffee beans or produce that you choose. Image and perception are everything in business. Filtered water will improve the taste of tea, coffee, soups etc.
- Spot free glasses and dishes
- Improve the aesthetics of kitchen and bathroom fixtures by, eliminating scale and staining. Increase the life of commercial kitchen appliances and fixtures throughout your business.
- A water softener can lower your operating costs by reducing your chemical costs and energy consumption by up to 40%.
- Increase the life of your equipment and improve the return on investment. Water softeners reduce the scale build up and internal corrosion caused by water contaminants, saving your business money.