Blow down blow up
An untrained facilities team neglects water treatment management basics.
The facilities team at a food manufacturing plant was unlicensed and untrained in water treatment so they neglected to test the water softeners used to pretreat the makeup water fed into the plant’s boiler. The team also wasn’t running tests on the boiler or conducting regular blow downs to remove sludge. The result? Hard water created sludge build up and scale deposits that completely blocked the tubes. After retubing its boiler, the plant hired us to take over their water treatment program.