Re: Dry Powder Acid

Posted by Ian Wilde on
URL: http://art-forum.84.s1.nabble.com/Dry-Powder-Acid-tp105p112.html

Hi Terry/Fraser,

As Fraser states, with bulk acid you are transporting (and paying for) 95% water that our own water treatment plants are capable of producing.

The system doesn't have its own RO and relies on a take off from your own system.

I have to admit though that it wasn't the thought of doing something good for the environment that first made us look at the system (it was barely even known to exist to us).  Because there is nowhere on the building to install a pump to take the bulk acid to the upper floors where the renal unit lives it would have meant strengethening floors and lifts to transport a 1 tonne palicon to the central delivery room and then being able to menouvre it around.

We had to find another solution.  It just so happened that a few weeks before I had been dropped a brochure off about the dry acid system.  Luckily I hadn't binned it!  We visited a couple of sites in Germany that had been using it for 10 years.  Needless to say we were happy with what we saw and heard.