Water Treatment
Protect your boiler and system from scale and corrosion with the right water-treatment and blowdown equipment.
Softeners, Dealkalizers & Filtration
Cleaver-Brooks Water Softeners
Removes water hardness through ion exchange, preventing scale buildup on heat-transfer surfaces and maintaining peak boiler efficiency.
- Size range
- 20,000–1,500,000 grains capacity
- Use
- Steam and hot water
Nelson Water Softeners
A full line of commercial and industrial water-conditioning equipment — softeners, dealkalizers and reverse-osmosis systems — locally manufactured with competitive pricing, quick delivery, 24-hour service and readily available parts.
- Size range
- 15,000–1,200,000 grains capacity
- Use
- Steam and hot water
- Tank sizes
- Up to 72″
Cleaver-Brooks Dealkalizers
Remove most bicarbonate alkalinity from softened water to control carbon-dioxide formation in the boiler — the major cause of condensate-line corrosion.
- Size range
- 10,000–980,000 grains capacity
- Flow rates
- 10–300 gpm
- Tank sizes
- 9″ to 72″
Cleaver-Brooks Filtration Systems
Remove impurities to reduce equipment servicing, cleaning and inefficient performance.
- Size range
- 50,000–100,000 grains capacity
- Flow rates
- 2–800 gpm
- Tank sizes
- 9″ to 72″
Cleaver-Brooks Chemical Feed Systems
Treat feedwater and condition blowdown sludge when an extra measure of corrosion protection is necessary.
- Size
- For any boiler size
- Use
- Steam and hot water
Walchem Water Treatment Controllers
Analytical instruments and electronic metering pumps for chemical pumps, tanks and boiler feed systems, integrating sensor, pump and electronic technologies for versatile water-treatment control.
Blowdown
Cleaver-Brooks Blowdown Separator
Prevents scale and harmful-solids buildup by rapidly separating steam from blowdown water in a cyclonic action, venting steam out the top. Compact and quickly installed with few connections.
- Use
- Steam boilers
- Pressure
- Up to 1,600 psig available
Walchem Surface Blow Down Control
Surface blowdown removes suspended solids floating at the boiler water line. Without it, foaming, priming and wet steam can contaminate your steam supply and damage the boiler. Automatic surface-blowdown controls are available from Cleaver-Brooks and Walchem.
Cleaver-Brooks Surface Blowdown Heat Recovery
Energy lost in surface blowdown can add up to significant fuel cost. A Cleaver-Brooks flash-type heat-recovery system recovers up to 90% of that energy before it goes to drain. Contact us for a payback analysis.
- For steam applications
- Captures waste heat from the blowdown process and preheats cold make-up water
- Up to 22 gpm blowdown; up to 180 gpm make-up
Blowdown Sample Coolers
Small heat exchangers that cool surface blowdown so it can be safely tested — a vital tool for maintaining boiler water chemistry. Available from Cleaver-Brooks, Sentry and Madden.