Boilers.
How does mineral scaling impact boilers?
An online search for this question will yield over 4 million results. The severity of mineral buildup in boiler equipment and their components is a substantial and serious maintenance and environmental issue. Mineral build-up on heating elements and boiler tubes acts as an insulator. 2013 report from the US Department of Energy. This mineral insulator prevents heat transfers, immediately decreasing efficiency because additional fuel (gas and electricity) is needed to reach the required water temperature level.
Researched impacts:
1 mm of scale buildup has been recorded at a 15% increase in energy demands
⅛ inch thickness on heating elements can result in 20%-25% efficiency loss
Using chemicals to descale boilers has to be the best answer, right?
If your thought process goes to “chemical treatments have been used for decades so what’s the problem?” Take another look at the process opening your boiler and using chemicals to descle your system.
These steps were copied from a chemical water treatment service:
You could just use the Vulcan Descaler.
zero effort to manage mineral scaling concerns
Install over your pipe lines and let science and nature take care of the entire descaling process.
Even if your internal and external components are crystal clean at the end of the chemical descaling process, as soon a 1 mm of scale buildup interferes with energy transfer rates as much as 15% extra energy is demanded to maintain the same output capacity (based on research lab studies). The Vulcan descaler proprietary technology continuously descales your residential, commercial and industrial boiler equipment, water pipe infrastructure, other connected support equipment and your entire building. Contact us for a holistic building wide implementation plan: 412-848-5058 |
Putting aside the environmental repercussions
Even if you are not motivated by environmental laws and encouragements; the idea of having to manually descale a boiler system when you can simply install a device that automatically descales without additional labor, chemicals, resins, filters or consumable byproducts (other than 2.5 watts of energy) could be viewed as similar to installing lead water pipes instead of copper, PVC, PEX because it has been done for decades. Vulcan anti-scale is a greentech solution to manage mineral scaling concerns.
scale is part of a much larger problem
Mineral scale issues in boilers is about more than maximizing equipment efficiency. Water borne pathogens use mineral scale buildup as a breeding ground and food source. CDC: “Scale, corrosion, sediment controls, and system cleaning are critical for cooling tower operations and Legionnaires' disease prevention.”
The Vulcan anti-scale solution continuously removes and prevents unnecessary lime scale buildup using propriety technology developed over 40+ years.
"The 11th consecutive highest exporter in Bangladesh, India. The mineral descaling tech removed built-up mineral scale in our commercial boilers. The boiler operated more efficiently because scaling sediment loosened and drained out of our boilers and no new scale buildup was found inside."
Zaber & Zubair Fabrics
"A 1,000 room resort is located on the beachfront in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. The Vulcan descaler removes and prevents scale build up in our boilers, which provides hot water throughout the entire resort and casino."
Royalton Punta Cana Resort & Casino
"Our geographic area is prone to extremely high calcium (Ca) content, with hardness levels at 86 GPG. After 6 months we found there was no additional electricity used. More impressively, the overall heat efficiency was still at 80% after 6 months."
Sinopec Oilfield
"The previous corrosion and limescale problems in our boiler and heating pipes aren’t problems anymore." more reviews from boiler clients
“More than a third of New York City’s greenhouse gas emissions come from buildings over 25,000 square feet.”
Proven Eco Technology.
For over 40 year and across 70 countries this technology has been used to eliminate mineral scale from a wide variety of commercial and industrial properties without using traditional water softening systems, salt, resins, chemicals and other physical filtration processes.
take a look at the tech behind this ECO mineral descaler
"NYC Accelerator (decarbonize NYC by 2050, Local Law 97) has allowed this technology to be part of an implementation solution to help decarbonize New York City buildings due the significant impact that mineral scaling has on energy efficiencies." ~ Waslix, LLC
