Water Treatment - Industrial, Commercial & Municipal
Boilers & Cooling Water Systems
Water is a near-perfect medium for changing fuel chemical energy into other forms. In a boiler, water absorbs energy from burning fuel, gets hot, and if heated enough, changes into steam. Pressurized hot water or steam can do work or release heat where it is needed. Electric power for cities, heat for chemical manufacturing, and warmth for an office building are among the jobs steam can do. When it has done its work, steam can condense back to water and be recycled many times.
Water is also a nearly ideal medium for cooling hot masses. It is inexpensive, easily moved, and has a high heat capacity. Water can cool a hot machine, a chemical manufacturing process, or the air in a building. Since water is environmentally friendly, its ability to release heat by evaporation to the atmosphere can be used to cool warm water for recycling.
Classical water treatment covers the chemistry required for water used in steam generation, heating and cooling. It's a necessary field because this unique fluid carries a unique set of problems. Water can be very corrosive to metals. Dissolved minerals in water supplies can come out of solution to form scale. Water can carry dirt into its piping and allow it to accumulate. Water exposed to the atmosphere supports microbial growth which produces slime and promotes corrosion.
Water treatment specialists at Fort Bend Services make their careers in solving these problems wherever they occur. Ability to find the chemical solution and fit it to the application is what makes their knowledge unique. The requirements for water in an electric power plant are very different from those in a hospital or a plastics molding factory. Fort Bend Services' chemists and engineers have state of the art know-how in each of these fields and many more. Wherever water is used for energy transfer, we can help.
Drinking Water
Public supplies for drinking water and other domestic needs usually originate from wells or from surface supplies like lakes or rivers. The sources are protected to give as clean a supply as practical, but that hardly means it's ready to drink.
Surface water especially may contain a considerable amount of suspended matter which must be removed by some combination of coagulation, flocculation, and filtration processes. The water may contain organic material which can be removed by chemical treatment or special filtration. Minerals like iron and manganese, while not harmful to health at ordinary levels, need to be removed or suppressed to prevent color and staining. If the water is corrosive or scale forming, inhibition of these effects is needed to protect the piping system and user's plumbing. Finally, all public water supplies must be disinfected with some form of chlorine to guard against disease transmission.
Fort Bend Services has extensive experience in applying solutions to these problems in systems ranging from private wells to major cities, and manufactures or has available products for each job.
Chemical products used to treat a public water system in any way must be certified to meet EPA sanctioned health hazard standards. The primary certifying organization is NSF International. All products used by Fort Bend Services in drinking water applications are certified to ANSI/ NSF Standard 60. When potable water treatment materials are needed, we can help.