HOW HARD WATER CAUSES SOAP CURD FORMATION
When water with grain such as 7.5 is used in the home for washing purposes, the positive calcium and magnesium ions react with the soap used produces insoluble soap curds.
The result is the production of the ring around the bathtub, the half-clean, dingy-looking clothes, dry skin etc.
When such water is brought into the home or factory and heated or boiled, like in boiler tanks, geysers, kettles etc. the bicarbonate anions revert to their carbonates, which combined with calcium and magnesium produce scale on the walls of the container, on elements or in the piping system.
These scale deposits can become a very expensive exercise to keep up with, since elements, pipes and other parts of the water containers has a rapid reduction in life span, as have been experienced by many farmers, home owners, factories and other industries in especially certain areas of South Africa.
One can say that scientists working out the problem of eliminating hardness minerals from a water supply applied the cause of the problem in obtaining the solution.
They reasoned that if some ions not contributing to hardness could be introduced into a water supply as a replacement for the calcium and magnesium ions, water could be made totally soft and useful.
The result: THE ION EXCHANGE PRINCIPLE
The idea of ion exchange is not new.
HARD WATER ENTERING SOFTENER
All recognized household water softening equipment now on the market makes use of the ion exchange principle. Using this principle contains a bed of resin through which the water flows and as the water travels through the bed of ion exchange material, the calcium and magnesium ions are removed, leaving the water soft and more satisfactory for household use.
I have to yet meet a woman who is not ecstatic about a water softener system being installed into her household water.
The ion exchange material (usually resin beads or granules) consists of permanent insoluble anions, kept electrically neutral by replaceable sodium cat ions. The ion exchanger has a greater attraction for the calcium and magnesium ions than for the sodium ions. This causes the calcium and magnesium ions to be absorbed, and a chemically equivalent number of sodium ions are released into the water.
In summary: Harmless sodium ions have replaced the trouble Âproducing hardness ions.
Most manufacturers make two basic types of water softeners. These can be classified as fully automatic and manually operated models.(Similar to a swimming pool system)
A fully automatic softener is usually equipped with a timer which automatically initiates every step in the regeneration process. The regenerating of the unit is usually done at night when water usage is at a minimum.Salt for regeneration may be put in the softener in any of several different ways depending on the type of equipment.
Water softeners are rated in terms of grains of capacity. This capacity refers to the ability of the unit to remove the stated number of grains of hardness from a supply of water. The capacity of a unit depends on the amount of ion exchanger (Resin) in the softener, the amount of salt used to regenerate it.
A water softener can be obtained from SAWaterpurifier at very cost effective prices.
Even our very effective descaler can eliminate the effect of lime in water and stop the clogging up and damage it does to pipes,elements etc.
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