subject: How We Can Remove Hardness Of Water [print this page] Water is a natural solvent which dissolves everything that comes in it. Around 70% of earth surface is covered with water. Our body also uses water for various processes it does like digestion, respiration, excretion etc. Water is available in two forms, hard water and soft water. Hard water is that form of water which contains ions of Magnesium and phosphorous. Though, hard water is not dangerous for health but it is not advisable to use it from safety point of view in industrial applications like boilers, furnaces, condensers, cooling towers etc.
We should drink soft water only which is free of any unwanted salts. If water is hard then filters can be installed at home or water softening salt tablets can be added to a water container. Hard water is not suitable for washing and cleaning purposes. When soap or detergent is applied on a dirty cloth then no or very less lather is formed as the insoluble salts do not allow the dirt to clean up properly and this worsens the quality of the washing. Therefore, indication of hard water is the non-formation of froth when soap is applied on clothes. Not only soaps, but the toothpastes also will not form any forth if agitated with hard water.
Many of you might be puzzled with the term hard and soft water. Some might be thinking that it measures the heaviness of water. But this is not the case. A water is hard when it has ions of magnesium and phosphorous. Actually, hard water is just similar to normal water but to test if it is hard water or not you can take a small test at your home itself. For this, take some water in a container and boil it. If salt gets deposited to the bottom of the container, it means the water is hard and full of salts.
The hard water is not considered safe from industrial safety point of view also. We brief you a little here, how hard water can be dangerous in industrial applications. Take an example of a boiler where water is heated at high temperature so that steam can be produced. This is done at high temperatures. The water gets converted into steam but when it contains hard mineral ions then white salts get settled down to the bottom. That does not get removed and go on accumulating there. This is called scaling. Due to this more heat is required to boil the water. The salt settled there can cause rusting of boiler or thinner the surface. This can be proved very risky if preventive measures are not taken on right time. A blast can also occur.
The market is flooded with water softening salt tablet that can help in removing hardness of water. These water softening salt tablets are good for domestic purposes also. Example of few water softening tablets are hydrocare bromicide, hydrocare bromax sr, hydrocare Pp Sediment Filter. Hydrocare Bromax is used in combination with an oxidizer or some agent that would release chlorine. This produces hypobromous acid.
The hypobromous acid controls the growth of any organic material like bacteria, algae etc. The acid thus produced does not harm human beings and only affects the growth of bacteria or other algae like materials. One can opt for hydrocare dual action filter too if wants to filter the water. These filters can remove other impurities also if there are any. A water softener uses salts to soften the water. These are in the form of resins of beads. The water first passes through these resins of beads. When the water passes on these beads then the hard ions get attached to them, letting soft water into our domestic water supply. Generally, people have misconception that the water that comes through Hydrocare Dual Action Filter is salty. But this is not true. Infect it uses salts to make water soft.
Hence, we can remove hardness of water in industrial applications by using methods stated above. All these water softening tablets or equipments are available in very cheaper rates that anyone can afford.
