Does the ED 2000 work on boilers?
All of our research has been in treating cooling systems and treating both shell and tube and plate and frame heat exchangers. The ED 2000 does have a use in boiler treatment but there are limitations. The process creates a crystal from the dissolved mineral ions. These crystals have a specific gravity of 2.74 and may settle as sludge at low points in a cooling or heating system. A low point is when velocity is less than 3 feet per second. In a cooing system that would possibly be the tower sump, but not the condenser. Mechanical filtration or a weekly purge or bottom blowdown of the sump would solve this problem. In boiler treatment the discharge of the crystals formed by the electronic precipitation must be considered. The ED 2000 would be effective in a fire tube boiler but should not be used in a water tube boiler due to safety concerns. The ED 2000 should only be used as an enhancement to the existing water treatment program (to eliminate shell side fouling) and not as a replaceme
