A customer found they could reduce the salt and water costs of regeneration by 63% by having our service person diagnose the problems they were having and make changes to the system.
A hospital customer has a 20 cubic foot water softener used for domestic water. The system was designed for run length of of 20,000 gallons between regenerations, but recent records indicate the run length has reduced to 10,000 gallons. The hospital demand is approximately 10,000 gallons per day. The following is the cost information:
After inspection of the unit and analysis of resin samples, several problems were found:
The following changes were made:
Calculations:
Cost | Calculations | $/year |
Salt Before | (180lb/regeneration)($0.05/lb)(365 regenerations per year) | $3,285/year |
Salt After | (120lb/regeneration)($0.05/lb)(182 regenerations per year) | $1,092/year |
Salt Savings | $2,193/year | |
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Water Before | (2590 gallons/regeneration)($4.00/1000 gallons)(365 regenerations per year) | $3,781/year |
Water After | (2090 gallons/regeneration)($4.00/1000 gallons)(182 regenerations per year) | $1,522/year |
Water Savings | $2,259/year | |
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Total Savings | $4,452/year |