There is an old joke about ...
Published by Terry Scheurman, President at Applied Specialties, Inc.
There is an old joke about farmers being experts. "They are all people "out standing" in their fields". Much the same may be said for free advice.
1st IX will not remove colloidal silica.
2nd IX will not remove non-ionic surfactants or other non-ionic organic materials all of which you will have in a refinery wastewater.
In some locations the spent regenerants are a problem. Then you have the issue of rinse water volume after regeneration a big issue in water short areas. Remember if you buy and use, in your regenerating operations, 90,000lbs of caustic and 45,000lbs of sulfuric those materials eventually end up in your wastewater adding to the TDS load.
Both silica and non-ionic organic materials are problems in a boiler application. The level of the problems they cause increase with increasing boiler operating pressure.
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If they are using this boiler for steam applied to prime movers (turbines, pumps, etc.), then yes, silica is a major issue as the pressure rating goes up. I agree with other comments as well. If the steam is used only for heat, then not so much, although I would suspect considerable fouling of heat exchange surfaces in the boiler from the contaminants you mentioned.
Published by James Stewart