Filtering and Purifying Water Through Reverse Osmosis
Every plumbing engineer and designer knows that hard water scale reduces valve life and performance, restricts water flow and negatively impacts water heater and boiler efficiency. The solution, ion exchange--or water softening--has been around since the 1930s, and apart from improvements in valve and vessel design, the method hasn't changed very much since its inception. All in all, it's a pretty forgiving technology.
While water softening solves a lot of problems, an increasing number of operations today require a higher degree of water quality for their processes. Reverse osmosis (RO) technology is widely regarded as the most economical and effective method for providing high-quality water for applications ranging from high-pressure boiler make-up to hospital and laboratory applications, food and beverage production and spot-free rinsing.