Solids build up, no thicker than a human hair, can reduce energy consumption by up to 30%!
How is your system looking?
With the increase of energy costs on everyone’s mind, we’re all looking for ways to reduce our energy consumption……but that’s not easy, especially in the Industrial and Commercial sectors.
IWF are working closely with clients across many sectors from manufacturing to commercial office blocks, banks, data centres, schools and colleges to reduce their energy costs, using our range of automatic and manual self cleaning water filters, with amazing results.
The main function of the IWF Vortek side stream filter range is to filter water – to remove solids from boiler or chilled water systems. However, with our closed system water filters, the benefits far exceed clean water!
Chilled and heated water systems suffer from a build up of scale and biofilm, and this build up can even occur within months of a newly installed system. So, for older systems, the problem is becoming increasingly significant.
This build-up of solids, leads to a decrease of heat transfer meaning an increase in energy consumption required to perform the same operation.
To put this in perspective, build up, no thicker than a human hair, can reduce heat transfer and cooling efficiency by up to 30%!!!! So, for older systems, with significant build up, energy consumption will be colossal – not to mention maintenance and repair costs and high chemical usage costs too!
Installation of IWF side stream water filters ensures the system is cleaned within just a matter of days. The self cleaning, closed system water filter, removes all scale and biofilm, so energy consumption is improved over a very short period. Moving forward, the system water remains clean, preventing further build up, reducing maintenance and repair costs and ensuring the heat transfer and cooling efficiency are at the optimum level.
With the system cleaned and heat transfer at optimum efficiency, significant energy savings are immediately realised, and equipment performance is improved. Now solid build up is under control, customers also experience an increase in the effectiveness of their chemical dosing regimes.
With increasing pressures on industry to stay environmentally conscious and individual businesses to recover costs, this small investment provides excellent returns on investment and significant costs savings realised year after year.
So, if you’re looking at ways to reduce costs, look at filtration of your system water as a starting point. You’ll be surprised at the savings that can be achieved!