Treating utility water is crucial to the operation of industrial facilities across numerous markets including healthcare, manufacturing, and food and beverage. Source water can contain contaminants like calcium, magnesium, iron, and silica. These impurities wreak havoc on heating and cooling systems, piping systems and point of use applications. Poor feedwater quality can also reduce equipment life, which decreases reliability and increases operational costs.
Benefits of properly treated feedwater
Each customer will experience unique benefits depending on how feedwater is used throughout their facility. One thing that is consistent is improved performance once feedwater impurities are removed. Boilers and cooling towers will perform at optimal levels, ensuring efficient operations for the plant. Not only will this increase efficiency, operational and maintenance costs related to boilers, cooling towers, and filtration will decrease. Once incoming water has been treated to standards you can expect your system to last longer and work better.
Solutions for treating industrial feedwater
Xylem understands the need for facilities to maintain the right water quality for efficient operation. Whether it’s filtration for particulate removal, disinfection or pretreatment of boilers or cooling towers, our broad portfolio of water treatment products and services ensures we have the right solution to fit your facility’s specific needs.
Monitor feedwater quality and asset performance
In addition to treatment technologies, real-time monitoring and analytics can help facilities maintain water quality and improve system performance.
Xylem Vue integrates and standardizes industrial feedwater treatment data from critical assets, including boilers, cooling systems, and feedwater networks across power and process plants, into a single intelligent platform. By leveraging advanced algorithms, it provides a comprehensive real-time view of water quality and asset performance, delivering actionable insights that ensure water quality compliance and drive unmatched process reliability and efficiency.
It is a common misconception that incoming water is treated to the necessary standards
