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Detecting and Controlling Microorganisms in Cooling Water Systems

Plant operators focus their attention on controlling scale and corrosion, but often neglect monitoring for microorganism growth and the accumulation of silt and other foulants.

5 Common Deaerator Problems and Solutions

5 Deaerator problems to watch for to help ensure high quality feed water.

Choosing the Right Salt for Softeners and Dealkalizers: How Quality Impacts Performance

Salt quality directly impacts system efficiency, maintenance requirements, and overall performance.

A Guide to Sensor Maintenance and Cleaning

Tips to keep sensors clean and working effectively to help avoid operational challenges that are costly to correct.

Optimize System Performance with Film Forming Agents

Filming agents prevent scale and corrosion by forming a protective layer on all metal surfaces.

Effective Water Management: Reduce Costs and Support Sustainability

Between the price volatility of water, a growing concern for freshwater supply, and the necessity of water use in production processes, maintenance, and human consumption, it can be difficult for business owners and facility managers to manage water use in a way that is both good for business and good for the environment.

The Cost Savings and Benefits of Water Management Automation

Automation allows facility managers and water system operators to be more efficient.

Optimize Boiler Performance: Avoid These Frequent Maintenance Pitfalls

Neglecting routine maintenance can lead to decreased efficiency, expensive repairs, or even complete equipment failure.

Why Chlorine Dioxide is a Top Biocide Choice for Industrial Water Treatment

This article explores the properties, benefits, and best-use scenarios for Chlorine Dioxide.

Boiler Blowdown: Protecting Your System from Scale, Corrosion, and Costly Downtime

When boiler water turns to steam, solids are left behind. Blowdown reduces solids to help maintain your system.

Water Treatment Equipment – Innovation and Advancements

Advancements and innovations in water treatment equipment and controllers make life easier, but more importantly, provide ways to achieve better and more accurate results.

Cooling Tower Corrective Actions: Supporting Today's Maintenance Teams

How to manage your cooling system when results are out of range.

Side Stream Filtration: Improve Cooling System Performance and Extend Equipment Life

Side stream filtration is an important but often overlooked component of an effective cooling water treatment program.

5 Proven Ways to Improve Steam Boiler Efficiency

How you maintain and operate your steam boiler has a direct effect on the amount of energy, water and chemicals it uses.

Why Workplace Safety Should Be a Top Priority for Every Organization

Having a team that has been trained in proper safety procedures and practices ensures not only their own safety, but also the safety of customers.

Say Goodbye to Sloppy Sludge: Smarter Sludge Dewatering Solutions

Sloppy sludge is a challenge in wastewater treatment. It pays to be informed on treatment equipment and how chemicals can impact this process.

Maximize Water Quality and Reduce Costs with Professional Water Softener Tune-Ups

Softeners are a critical component to the water treatment system. They help remove minerals to reduce scale and build-up in piping and heat transfer equipment.

Chloride Reduction: Lower Costs, Protect Systems, and Safeguard the Environment

Making changes in how you use salt in your facility can help protect our fresh water resources, and potentially reduce your operating costs.

Offsite Technical Training: Why It Benefits Your Business

An effective employee training strategy can help employees be more productive, confident and boost moral.

How to Select the Right Biocide for Cooling Water Systems

Choosing the right biocide saves money, by reducing downtime and maintenance costs, and increasing production efficiency.

Is Your Vendor a Supplier or a Partner? How to Know the Difference

When a vendor relationship is built on trust, good communication, and a sincere investment in your business, it will drive meaningful value and a sustained competitive advantage.

Choosing the Right Sanitizer for Food & Beverage Wastewater Treatment

Sanitizers are required in food and beverage facilities. Choosing the right sanitizer can impact wastewater treatment.

Boost Wastewater System Performance with Healthy Microbes and BIOACTIV-8-OR™

Bioaugmentation can be a game-changer for wastewater management, breaking down organic matter and cleaning up waste streams.

Optimizing Wastewater Treatment with Polymer Flocculants

Polymer flocculants, what are they? and what are they used for?

Choosing the Right Water Management Partner for Your Facility

Guidelines for selecting the best industrial water treatment supplier.

Mastering Corrective Actions: Essential to Maintaining Healthy Water Systems

Quick corrective action can prevent significant issues like scaling, corrosion and microbiological contamination.

3 Essential Principles Every Water Manager Should Master

To control the cost of industrial water use, it is vital for water managers to become proficient in water management strategies.

4 Common Traits of a Superstar Facility

Four common traits that allow for a fully optimized, reliable, and cost-efficient industrial water management system.

How to Prevent Boiler Oxygen Corrosion: Essential Strategies for Industrial and Commercial Facilities

Oxygen corrosion in boiler systems can lead to damaging issues if left untreated.

Measuring Steam Purity: Why Accurate Sampling Matters

An important factor in the efficient operation of a modern boiler system is the ability to accurately measure the level of carryover or steam purity.

Managing Nitrite Levels and Controlling Denitrification in Closed Water Systems

Nitrite-based inhibitors must maintain specific concentrations to remain effective.

Monitoring Steam for Carryover: Two Key Methods to Protect System Integrity

Contaminants can cause post-boiler problems by leaving deposits or causing corrosion in critical areas of the steam system.

Solving a Chloride Discharge Challenge with Smart Engineering

How to manage elevated chloride levels in their wastewater discharge.

What Makes a Winning Team?

Winning teams have leaders who are clear, consistent, and committed.

Aquassist: A Predictive Water Management Tool for Enhanced Efficiency

Aquassist is key in developing a comprehensive, predictive water treatment program.

Maximizing Efficiency with Predictive Water Management: A Smart Strategy for Your Facility

A predictive water management strategy offers a proactive approach through smart systems and artificial intelligence.

Unlocking the Power of the Knowledge Center

Watertech's Knowledge Center is a one-stop resource for anyone involved in water treatment.

The Often-Overlooked Key to Cooling Tower Efficiency: Proper Filtration

Filtration is a vital part of both cooling tower operation.

Are You Paying to Remove Excess Water with Your Sludge?

Sludge containing extra water increases your disposal costs.

Breaking Through Complacency

The Hidden Benefits of a Fresh Perspective in Water Treatment.

Watertech Prioritizes Water Stewardship

Few things are as important as water.

What are the benefits and downfalls of corrosion coupons?

Corrosion coupons are a good predictive maintenance tool.

Bioaugmentation, moving “bugs” from skepticism to supported by science

Bioaugmentation can achieve excellent results.

Staying connected. AI is changing how we work, but not how we connect with customers.

Watertech leverages AI to manage data, but strives to maintain a personal connection.

Aquassist, Revolutionizing Water Treatment: The Dawn of Smart Water Testing

Aquassist is a groundbreaking smart water testing tool that will revolutionize how you validate your system’s water quality.

Time for Boiler Layup / Cooling Tower Start-up

Seasonal maintenance helps maintain equipment and improve efficiency.

Account Audits Improve Efficiency and Performance

An account audit helps maintain the success of a water treatment program.

Is it important to be a Certified Water Technologist?

The importance of becoming a Certified Water Technologist

Maximize the Potential of Pretreatment

Aquafilm 1284C: Defending Against Closed Loop Corrosion

Aquafilm 1284C treats metal surfaces and not the water to help solve corrosion issues in closed loops.

Polydose Fluorescent Tagged Polymers, a Game Changer in Water Treatment

Watertech's Polydose line of products improves the efficiency and maintenance of cooling water systems.

My water system is scaled up! What should I do to prevent cooling tower or boiler scale?

Learn how to prevent cooling tower or boiler scale.

Reverse Osmosis Troubleshooting: 4 Common Issues

RO systems require regular maintenance to maintain their efficiency and effectiveness.

Fat, Oil, and Grease – The Biological Systems' Nemesis

How to handle large volumes of FOG in your waste stream.

Can one product really treat your boiler as effectively as 3 traditional chemistries?

Learn how Aquafilm effectively treats systems and helps save on energy and water usage.

Side Stream Filtration Improves Water and Energy Efficiency

Several items should be considered when specifying the proper side stream filtration system.

STOP! Don’t throw your water treater under the bus.

5 Things operators ignore, then look to blame on their water treater.

How important is safety when handling your water treatment chemicals?

When working with chemicals, it is important to understand safety procedures and what to do in the event of a chemical release.

Beverage company finds tarnishing on aluminum cans. Technology + Experience = Quick resolution.

Anybody can sell a tool, learning how to use it is the key!

Help, my energy costs are through the roof!

A few adjustments to your boiler or cooling system can save a significant amount of energy.

Phosphonate (PBTC) – The Phosphorus Removal Nemesis

Phosphonates can make meeting phosphorus discharge limits even more challenging.

Troubled by Weird Water Quality?

Learn what to do when you encounter unexpected results with your system's water quality.

Are you experiencing subcooling in your heat exchanger?

Learn about the negative effects of sub cooled condensate in your heat exchanger.

Preparing Yourself for Supply Chain Challenges in Water Treatment

Now is the time to work with your provider to come up with a contingency plan for supply chain challenges.

Oxidizing Biocides and Disinfectants – Applications, Benefits and Best Practices

Biocides can be used for many applications including healthcare, food & beverage, industrial, and commercial. Choosing the proper disinfection technology is critical.

How Smart is Your Water System?

Advanced water treatment sensors can improve system performance.

Cooling Tower Cleanings are Necessary for a Safe System

Cooling tower cleanings are essential for maintaining a safe and healthy cooling system.

Boiler Inspection Time – Where is the Water Treatment Representative?

Boiler inspection time is validation time. This is the best opportunity to see how your water treatment program is working.

Avoid Giving Your Coils the Deep Freeze This Winter!

Now is the time to ensure your system's HVAC coils are freeze protected and working properly. A frozen coil not only causes water damage, there is also the replacement cost and downtime for repairs when it is least convenient.

How can you create predictable results from your water treatment program?

If you want to achieve predictable results from your water treatment program, you need a 3-pronged approach.

Save Energy and Reduce Carbon Footprint With EndoTherm

EndoTherm is an additive that is proven to reduce energy usage in heating and cooling closed loop recirculating systems.

Are You Ready for Cooling Layup / Boiler Startup?

Being proactive and thorough in your approach to maintenance saves time and money in the long run.

Are your cooling towers driving you buggy?

How to manage bacterial growth in cooling towers.

Aquafilm-V: Impact at a Wood Processing Facility

Aquafilm-V delivers some dramatic results and improvements.

PFAS/PFOS: What is the real impact of “Forever Chemicals”?

The regulations are coming. What are you going to do about PFAS / PFOS?

The City put Chlorine into the water and now you need to remove it, sound familiar?

If you are relying on a municipal water source a dechlorination process may be necessary prior to discharge.

FreedomPlus Pretreatment

Is Your Plant’s Pre-Treatment Equipment A Top Priority? For Watertech, it is!

Reducing Legionella Risk: How and When to Address Water Safety in Buildings With Reduced Use

Guidance and recommended actions for returning water systems to regular use.

Why Choose a Full-service Water Treatment Partner?

Watertech offers a complete range of flexible business solutions to manage our customers’ needs.

Have You Set Your 2021 Sustainability Goals?

Watertech offers products and solutions to help meet your sustainability efforts.

What is the cost of feeding soft vs hard water to an RO?

Use these calculations to help determine if it might be time to consider using an Anti-Scalant.

Reduce Legionella Risk: Steps to Safely Reopen Closed or Semi-open Buildings

Stagnant water in a plumbing system can drastically increase the risk of exposure to Legionella and other harmful water borne pathogens.

Watertech: Swipe right to build a great vendor relationship!

What is the Impact of an RO System on a Boiler Water Treatment Program?

Increase Condensate Return, Increase Savings

Improving condensate return can save on water, energy and chemicals.

The Impact of Stagnant Water on Industrial and Potable Water Systems

Why should water treatment automation be a top priority?

40 Years of Maximizing Water’s Potential

Happy 40th Anniversary Watertech!

Boiler Corrective Actions

How to manage your boiler system when results are out of range.

How to Make the Right Call When Ordering Glycol?

Ordering and receiving a glycol delivery should be a fairly straightforward and easy process; however, it takes some insight and planning to avoid complications.

How to Install and Maintain Boiler Conductivity Electrodes

Learning how to properly install and maintain your boiler conductivity electrode will help improve the performance of your boiler.

Better Water Management - An Opportunity to Improve Sustainability and Reduce Cost

Industrial facilities use large amounts of fresh water. By reducing water usage, facilities also achieve reduced energy cost, chemical cost savings, and other benefits.

Improving Patient Safety Through Stronger Water Management

While it is important to be compliant with the latest laws and regulations, the focal point of any effective Water Management Plan should put patient safety first.

Healthy Microbes Are Key to “Superstar” Wastewater Management

Bioaugmentation can be a game-changer for wastewater management, breaking down organic matter and cleaning up waste streams.

Feedwater Tank vs. Deaerator: How to Choose

A comparison of feedwater tanks and deaerators for storing and treating boiler feedwater.

Tapping into water savings? Your first step is a site audit.

A site audit can identify ways to reduce water, chemical, and energy usage.

Cooling Tower Operation and Maintenance is the Key for Improved Energy Efficiency

Are you showing your cooling tower the TLC it needs to be running at its peak performance efficiently?

Continuous Blowdown Method of Boiler Layup

The CDP or Continuous Blowdown method of boiler layup consists of piping continuous surface blowdown from the operating boiler to the bottom of the stand-by boiler.

Maintaining Cycles of Concentration

Your water treatment specialist can help you determine what the maximum number of cycles is for your system.

Measuring and Controlling Dissolved Solids

Your water treatment company can help you set surface blowdown conductivity control limits that maintain the dissolved solids in a safe, economical range.

Steps to Bottom Blowing a Boiler

Preferred method of performing the bottom blowdown.

Adjusting your Feedwater Temperature

Increasing your feedwater temperature to above 180 degrees F will help reduce your chemical usage of oxygen scavenger, increase your efficiency and reduce thermal stress.

Cycles of Concentration in a Cooling Water System

Water treatment programs should maximize the frequency at which its water is cycled to prevent scaling.

Cycling Up Water in a Recirculating Cooling Tower System

As the water evaporates in a cooling tower system, it leaves behind all of the dissolved solids that were present in the fresh makeup water used to replenish system losses

Feedwater Temperature

What is a target temperature for your feedwater?

Choosing the Best Oxygen Scavenger for Your Boiler System

It is well known that one of the greatest threats to the integrity of a steam system is corrosion due to the effects of dissolved oxygen.

Deaerator / Feedwater Heater Performance

If you find you are using an excessive amount of oxygen-scavenging chemicals, you may want to investigate the performance of your deaerater (DA) or feedwater heater

Deaerator Inspection List

A properly operating deaerator is one of the most important pieces of equipment in a boiler room

Inefficiency of Deaerators

Deaerators play a vital role in the efficient production of steam, but you may find as time goes on their performance begins to decline. Here is a troubleshooting list that may be used to help identify the source of the decreased performance

Legionnaire's Disease in the News

July 23, 2013: Our community is currently experiencing a larger than normal rate of legionella infections, including 29 suspect and confirmed cases in Milwaukee County, 19 of which are in the city of Milwaukee.

Identifying Problem Condensate Areas Using Membrane Filters

Boiler plant operators are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of their steam condensate systems.

Resin Background and Sampling

Use resins that will allow the system to operate at peak efficiency and maximum cost effectiveness

Boiler Storage and Layup Part 2

While dry storage methods are most recommended, wet storage is an acceptable option in the event of a more temporary standby.

Boiler Storage and Layup Part 1

Waterside surfaces of boilers that are out of service are particularly susceptible to corrosion.

Legionella Standard 188-2015

Risk Management for Building Water Systems, aims to identify risk factors for growth and exposure of Legionella in industrial water systems.

Loss of Nitrite in Closed Systems

Controlling corrosion with non-chromate inhibitors and how fluctuations in nitrite levels can challenge their effectiveness.

Top 3 Ways to Reduce Operating Costs in Cooling Systems

Cutting costs can be as simple as keeping your boilers and cooling towers well maintained, and free of scale and microbe build-up.

5 things you should know about Legionnaires’ disease

Legionnaires' disease, how it's contracted, where it's found, how it's treated, prevention methods, and business testing.

From Consultant to Program Manager: the Evolution of the Water Guy

The reduction in labor force, retirees, and increased efficiency expectations have paved the way for technological advancements in water management.

How Watertech's Legionella prevention strategies save customers money

Preventing Legionella bacteria cultures in cooling towers can be done with proper support from automated sensor alerts and chemical delivery.

ASHRAE Guideline 12 - Legionella

From ASHRAE, Guideline 12 sets forth ways to manage the risks posed by cooling towers specific to Legionella.

Legionella Standard 188-2015

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