These days an alternative to water treatment Chemicals suggested by a Company Hydropath their product Hydroflow protect against scales & slime in the system like preventing scales over Heat-exchanger Tubes/ Plates and growth of Biofilms. Your Expert opinion requested as Hydropath advocates they are operating with their gadgets installed in USA/UK/Europe/India & Bangladesh?

Gadgets are just that gadgets. In real life they do not work and there is no technical reason for them working. I visited an air separation plant many years ago that had purchased a gadget. The maintenance manager had told me he had purchased a gadget and since he had things were going very well following it.  He showed it to me. It was in its box in the warehouse. I looked at him and said, "it isn't installed." He said, " it doesn't matter. Since I purchased it the scaling has stopped.". So there is a reportable success.  

Of course there is also the failure at an Eastern University. They bought gadgets and installed them on their boiler makeup water lines. 4 months later, they blew boiler tubes on all 3 new boilers. They went back to nasty chemicals. There are scientific rules. You do not change physical chemistry with mumbo jumbo. 

"A fool and his money are soon parted." That is the science behind gadgets.

Published October 15, 2018 16:02 by Terry Scheurman, President at Applied Specialties, Inc.

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