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Challenges The boiler – a 1000-hp tube unit – at a plywood manufacturing plant in the Pacific Northwest had scale so bad that it had to be shut down after only a year and a half of operation. Treatment chemicals for the boiler were being mixed daily, however, the feed system was not working properly….

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…

Challenge As a result of poor service and neglect from a series of water treatment providers, a healthcare center in the southwest had some serious equipment problems. Chillers were so heavily scaled that heat transfer was very inefficient and energy costs were spiking. Boilers were laden with iron deposits. All cooling towers had such massive scale deposits that…