Water Softener System Maintenance & Troubleshooting
A water softener system is one of a facility’s the best methods of defense against scale formation due to hard water on heat transfer surfaces, such as heat exchangers and boilers. In addition to a...
View ArticleU.S. Water Featured in November/December 2017 Edition of Water Technology...
Just published! U.S. Water’s Joe Tirreno, VP of Strategic Sales, authored an article for the November/December 2017 edition of Water Technology magazine, titled Protecting Power Plant Equipment During...
View ArticleU.S. Water Featured in March 2018 issue of Ethanol Producer Magazine
Just Published! U.S. Water’s Mitch Manstedt, Strategic Business Leader – Biofuels, and Jim Lukanich, Director of Applied Technology, were interviewed in the article Sticking to It, published in the...
View ArticleU.S. Water’s CEO LaMarr Barnes Presented During the Annual APEX Board of...
On January 25, 2018, the Area Partnership for Economic Expansion (APEX) hosted its annual Board of Directors and investor-member meeting, which featured guest speaker LaMarr Barnes, CEO of U.S. Water....
View ArticleFeed Mill Facility Increases Efficiency and Reduces Chemical Usage with...
A Midwest Feed Mill was treating its incoming well water for high levels of alkalinity with amine chemical. Unfortunately, amine is one of the most expensive chemicals used in water treatment. If the...
View Article5 Ways to Celebrate World Water Day
Each year on March 22, the United Nations recognizes the importance of universal access to clean water and sustainable freshwater resource management through the celebration of World Water Day. This...
View ArticleOptimize Your Industrial Water Softener With A Brine Elution Study
Sodium zeolite softening is an ion exchange method for removing hardness from water sources achieved by exchanging calcium and magnesium ions for sodium. This process is ideal when applied to...
View ArticleBenefits of Sidestream & Media Filtration in Cooling Towers
Cooling towers scrub large volumes of air and effectively remove solids consisting of dust, microbiological organisms, and various airborne debris. Make-up water to the tower adds suspended solids in...
View ArticlePreventing Scale Formation in Reverse Osmosis Systems
Reverse osmosis (RO) systems behave similar to a boiler or a cooling tower in that they cause the dissolved salts in their make-up water to become more concentrated. As pure water permeates...
View ArticleFlow Accelerated Corrosion
Few subjects have captured the attention of boiler cycle chemistry experts and research dollars in the past 10+ years as flow accelerated corrosion (FAC). Having previously been most...
View ArticleAsset Protection & System Optimization: What You Need to Know
Asset protection is a concept that is steadily gaining notoriety in today’s industry. Many plants are looking for ways to optimize their system to get the most they can from their capital...
View ArticleReverse Osmosis (RO) Membrane Autopsy: What You Need to Know
A membrane autopsy is a good description of the analysis that can be performed on a fouled membrane. It can also be the key to determining how to prevent fouling of new membranes and to maximize the...
View ArticleThe Sometimes Maddening Question of Boiler Lay-Up
With more and more steam boilers being asked to provide intermittent service, there is renewed focus on the proper treatment of boiler systems while they are offline. In the Power industry it...
View ArticleMaximize Asset Protection & Minimize Chemical Costs by Maintaining Your...
When treating Thermal Energy Systems or Large Chilled Water systems the following standards should be followed to minimize costs to chemically treat these systems and protect the equipment assets....
View ArticleU.S. Water Reports™ – A Web Based Reporting System
In our continuous effort to assist our customers in maximizing the potential of their water treatment systems, U.S. Water completed a major upgrade to the web based U.S. Water...
View ArticleU.S. Water pHytOUT® Successfully Controls Mineral Deposits
Ethanol plants are often challenged with mineral deposits and the loss of heat transfer efficiency in distillation that accompanies these deposits. pHytOUT is a patented deposit control technology from...
View ArticleU.S. Water VOxOUT® Successful in Emission Control
U.S. Water’s Ethanol Process Technologies (EPT) team engaged in a CO2 Scrubber performance comparison evaluation in an Eastern United States dry grind fuel ethanol plant with a 100 MMgpy...
View ArticleBenefits & Myths of Industrial Automation Uncovered
Did you know that most modern water treatment controllers are capable of communicating remotely to U.S. Water? In fact, most controllers can also communicate directly into the web based reporting...
View ArticleU.S. Water Expands National Territory
U.S. Water is pleased to announce the addition of RealChem Northwest, Inc and the Mt. Hood Solutions Water Treatment Division – formerly a Swisher Hygiene Company – into the U.S....
View ArticleThe High Cost of Corrosion: Is Your Plant At Risk, Part 1
Corrosion is a naturally occurring phenomenon commonly defined as the deterioration of a substance (usually a metal) or its properties because of a reaction with its environment. Corrosion can cause...
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