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  1. Aqua_man

    Gloves for NH3

    Thanks for the reply! We deal with ammonia/water solution as well as NH3 as a compressed gas. Norco just got us some butyl gloves but I was mostly curious about PVC as well as.
  2. Aqua_man

    Gloves for NH3

    Quick question. Any insight on the best glove material for NH3? We use PVC for most of our other processes, will this material be suitable?
  3. Aqua_man

    Centrifugal pump and hard water

    I see one supplier of EDTA is DOW and being in the agriculture business we deal with them often. I'll have to check with them and see what they offer. Thanks
  4. Aqua_man

    Centrifugal pump and hard water

    Awesome! Thanks for the help, this forum is great!
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    Centrifugal pump and hard water

    Has anyone ever had any experience with the "scale blaster"? As I understand, it's a coil with an electrical charge that wraps around the pipe before and after a water pump. It's supposed to disrupt the calcium as the water passes through the field of charge. But it only lasts for a certain...
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    Centrifugal pump and hard water

    Great! Thank you very much for the confirmation.
  7. Aqua_man

    Centrifugal pump and hard water

    Sorry it's taken me so long to get back, work has been crazy. Thank you everyone for the replies, they have helped a lot. The diagram that BIMR posted is spot on. The 2" centrifugal pump and the secondary pump are scaling up, while other pumps that are fed directly by the well pump before the...
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    Centrifugal pump and hard water

    Thanks for the reply. But ammonia and water make a violent reaction, so that process must be done inside a special chamber in a converter/cooler unit. The pumps are used to push water in and through the converter and back out into storage tanks.
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    Centrifugal pump and hard water

    Hello everyone, I'm new here so please pardon any errors I make for now. The problem that we're having is scale buildup inside our water booster pumps as well as ending up in our end product; Water gets pumped from a well into a 6000 gallon storage tank. From there it goes through a primary...
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