Success Stories & Case Studies in Water Treatment Excellence
Challenges To limit handling and liability issues, a medical center in the Midwest required hands-free delivery of its water treatment chemicals. But this requirement limited its product options and made it “captive” to a single supplier. The hospital’s water treatment capabilities were sometimes threatened as it waited weeks for overdue chemical deliveries. Approach An ROI…
Snapshot of Success Industry: Data CenterChallenge: Elevated iron levels prevented closed-loop water from meeting equipment manufacturer specificationsSolution: Full system repassivation + component chemistry retreatment + upgraded monitoring panelsResults: Iron reduced from ~0.82 ppm to 0.15 ppm and maintained for 10+ monthsWhy This Success Matters: Data center systems with strict control requirements need the right passivation…
I. Challenges A large municipal water reclamation plant on the Central California Coast that runs 3 RO trains had to switch to a low-cost, low-actives supplier due to a city-mandated bid process. After six weeks of working with the new supplier, the water plant experienced the following: If the situation continued, it would have resulted…
I. Challenges A high-volume beverage plant in Puerto Rico was processing well water at 85% recovery. The plant was performing monthly chemical cleanings and needed to replace the system’s 78 membrane elements every year. As a result: II. Approach Garratt-Callahan’s water treatment professionals began to troubleshoot the system. They uncovered a faulty check-valve that allowed…
I. Challenges A Midwest ethanol manufacturing plant replaced the membranes of their large reverse osmosis (RO) system but the differential pressures increased rapidly and exceeded the recommended operating ranges. If failure occurs, they will lose $200,000 in revenues per non-operational day. To cope with the problem, the ethanol plant carried out a Clean-In-Place (CIP) procedure…
I. Challenges A large gypsum manufacturing plant had two reverse osmosis (RO) trains (A and B) but they were inefficient: Recently, neither RO train have been serviced with a complete Clean-In-Place (CIP) and the plant had a CIP skid available but they still needed additional support to use the equipment. Their current water treatment vendor…
Persistent reverse osmosis fouling threatened a particle board manufacturer’s productivity until Garratt-Callahan implemented a tailored water treatment program. By prioritizing proactive monitoring, the facility extended RO membrane life and significantly improved system reliability. This success proves that expert industrial water management is vital for preventing costly production downtime while maintaining rigorous, high-purity water standards for efficiency.
Controlled Release contains Garratt-Callahan’s proven, effective formulas, but in a concentrated and newly improved solid form. This will provide the same scale and corrosion protection for cooling towers as traditional liquid formulas, but with some unbeatable benefits. Go Green Garratt-Callahan Controlled Release products incorporate several aspects of the U.S. EPA Green Chemistry Guidelines. The products…
Challenges Poor water quality at a Nevada printing company, with very high silica levels (67 PPM), limited the plant to running its boilers at a maximum of 10 cycles of concentration. Because it was difficult to control the high conductivity required, the system experienced frequent foaming and carryover, and energy costs were escalating. Approach Garratt-Callahan…