If you like to install a water softening system, we recommend our ready-for-use and efficient water softening system for different operational purposes.

Why we need Water Softeners?

• In many areas of EMEA Region,  the degree of hardness of the drinking water is strongly increased. The high degree of hardness in the drinking water produces more lime scale.

• The lime scales appears in:

  • Bathroom (Glass bath screens), Electrical Appliances, Pipes

  • Heating Systems, Boilers, Washing Machine, Tea or Coffee Machine.

• The use of a water softeners, also called de-calcification systems:

  • Avoid presence of lime scales in the shower, the bathtub or in the washbasin 

  • Avoid lime scale formation and its incrustations in pipes and electrical appliances

  • ​Increase the product life of the machines and decrease their repair costs

  • Reduce the consumption of detergents, cleaning agents or shower gels – savings up to 50% in terms of costs

  • Improve the shower experience, softer skin and glossy, silky hair

  • Improve the quality of the washing process of clothes and extend the life of the textiles and clothings

  • Improve the quality of the taste of the tea, coffee, drinks, foods and beverages

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How Does Water Softening Work?

• The water softening via ion exchange is a treatment process. In this process cations are exchanged with sodium ions under use of cation exchange resins.

• Cations are responsible for the water hardness, in particular calcium ions and magnesium ions.

• A strongly acidic cation exchanger in the form of sodium is used as water softener in this process.

• The cation exchanger is loaded with sodium ions and exchanges them equivalently with the ions of the hardeners calcium and magnesium since one salt is exchanged with another during the process of water softening

• This process is also called neutral exchanger.

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Structure Options

Water softening systems are in four structures:

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Single Tank Softener-Light Commercial-SCST Series: 

• Pressure tank is separately grouped with the salt dissolving tank.

• It consists of brine tank, pressure tank and the actuator.

• The system elements are separately set-up from each other.

• It enables the user to use high amounts of salt and resin since  they are separate.

• The pressure tank is filled with a high-quality softening resin.

• The ion exchange resin is the cation exchanger in water softening process.

• The cation exchanger has a particularly high absorption capacity and a durability of about 10 years.

• ​The brine is required for conducting the generation. 

• After the water softener is connected, you need to regularly refill the salt tablets.

• No running cost of operations excluding the salt tablets.

• The regeneration concentrates on water quantity, dependent from the amount of treated water; or time control of the regeneration.

• When the capacity of the softening system is reached, the system will switch into the regeneration cycle

• The actuator adjusts the hardness degree of water by blending valve.

• The blending valve blend treated water with raw water.

• Without adjustment, treated water has a degree of hardness of 0° dH. The desired hardness degree of water is adjusted by blending process.

• Options:

  • A strongly acidic cation exchanger for higher absorption capacity​

  • Flow-meter in actuators

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Double Tank Softener (Duplex softener)-Light Commercial-SCDT Series:

• Dual Softeners for Buildings, Compounds, Large Residential and Light Commercial Applications

• It can be used as pre-treatment of reverse osmosis systems

• It consists of brine tank, two pressure tanks and the actuator.

• One pressure tank is operational and the other pressure tank is at standby mode.

• The system elements are separately set-up from each other.

• It enables the user to use high amounts of salt and resin since  they are separate.

• Both pressure tanks are filled with a high-quality softening resin.

• The ion exchange resin is the cation exchanger in water softening process.

• The cation exchanger has a particularly high absorption capacity and a durability of about 10 years.

• ​The brine is required for conducting the generation. 

• After the water softener is connected, you need to regularly refill the salt tablets.

• No running cost of operations excluding the salt tablets.

• The regeneration concentrates on water quantity, dependent from the amount of treated water; or time control of the regeneration.

• The control valve has a flow meter that continuously measures the treated amount of water and compares it with the system capacity.

• The control valve switches between the two pressure tanks if the maximum system capacity is reached.

• The pressure tank with the exhausted resin bed is regenerated while the other tank is used for water softening.

• For this reason, soft water is available at all times without interruptions!

• The actuator adjusts the hardness degree of water by blending valve.

• The blending valve blend treated water with raw water.

• The blending valve is preinstalled on the entrance/exit side of the control valve. 

• Without adjustment, treated water has a degree of hardness of 0° dH. The desired hardness degree of water is adjusted by blending process.

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Commercial & Industrial Softener (Twin-Triplex Softener)-SCCI Series:

• Twin alternating or regenerating, triplex or four tank systems available.

• Between 1 m3/h (240k Fr/regen.) and 50 m3/h (12.000k Fr/regen.)

Mechanical controlled softeners (Mechanical Backwashing):

• Complete package on a steel construction basement with valves

• Double column or single column type

• Tailor-made solution with steam pack, pre-filter, sand filter or descaler

• Accessories like sample bowl

• Coating is available.

• High performance and cost effective

Automatic controlled softeners (Automatic Backwashing):

• Twin alternating or regenerating, triplex or four tank systems available

• Automatic backwashing softener (4-75 GPM)

• NSF approved steel or composite tank

• Aquamatic cast iron or plastic diaphragm valve

• Cast Iron Valve available connections:

  • (FPT: 1-1/2”, 2”, 2-1/2”, 3”); (Flanged: 3” 4”, 6”)

• Plastic Valve available connections:

  • (MPT: 1-1/2”); (Male Spigot Weld: 1-1/2”, 2”)

  • (Female Socket Weld: 2”); (Flanged: 2”, 3”)

• Backwash Rates 50% bed exp. at 60ºF.

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Control Valve Options

Electronic Demand Meter Systems: System regenerates when necessary by monitoring the amount of treated water used daily, this system regenerates only when necessary to supply continuous, treated water with substantial salt and water savings. It is also called as volume time control or fully electronic control system.

Clock Timer Systems: Two simple settings automatically regenerate this system at a set time each day or once every few days

Regeneration of the Water Softener

• Water softening process can be reversed as regeneration for the water softener.

• For this purpose, sodium ions are offered to the ion exchanger in surplus.

• A saturated solution of sodium chloride can be used, which can be produced by dissolving common salt tablets, for example. If the system is in operation, you have to pay attention to a sufficient development time of the brine of at least five hours, before the saturated sole can be used for regeneration.

Water Softener Resin 

• In the drinking water treatment system,  we use a resin, which has an approval for drinking water and food.

• In the boiler water treatment system, a softening of 0,1 ° dH is mandatory (boiler houses, before reverse osmosis), we use a resin with a monodisperse (monospheric) grain size distribution with an extremely fast exchange kinetics.

Other Features

• Special resins in conjunction with an anthracite under-bedding.

• Bypass valve, modular control valve, with simple programming commands.

• All fittings feature O-rings or threaded seals for leak-proof operation and oversize  brine tank.

• Safety overflow fittings are standard. These systems automatically bypass during regeneration.

Features

Service Flow Range: 

• 2,5 m3/h-15 m3/day (Single Tank)-450.000 Fr taz/Reg

• 3,0 m3/h-20 m3/day (Single Tank)-600.000 Fr taz/Reg

Type:

• Automatic Control, Backwashing and Regeneration

• Manual Backwashing