Optimizing water treatment for peak performance
Water is the lifeblood of industrial and commercial operations. Whether as a product ingredient, cleaning medium, or a critical part of facility operations. Without effective process water treatment, businesses face significant risks such as reduced product quality, costly downtime, regulatory non-compliance, and higher production costs. At Solenis, we understand that process water management is complex, but essential. Our 360° Get Clean, Keep Clean™ Approach delivers customized water treatment programs that help you optimize performance, protect your equipment, and meet evolving environmental and economic demands.
Why Process Water Treatment Matters
Process water treatment isn’t just focused on ensuring systems run smoothly; effective process water treatment is about ensuring long-term operational success. Poor water quality has a significant negative impact on your overall operations, including:
- Product Quality Issues: Impurities in process water can impact production outcomes, leading to defects, recalls, and/or brand reputation risks.
- Manufacturing Downtime: Scale buildup, microbiological growth, and corrosion cause equipment failures and unexpected shutdowns, severely disrupting operations.
- Increased Production Costs: Inefficient water systems demand more energy, more maintenance, and more chemicals, driving up overheads and impacting profitability.
- Regulatory Compliance Risks: Failure to meet water quality standards can result in fines, penalties, or even facility shutdowns.
At Solenis we know the importance of properly managed systems. We can help you maintain product quality, efficiency, and compliance in this ever-evolving, complex, and competitive environment.
Critical Process Water Challenges
Maintaining precise water quality is critical for processes that demand high-purity water or adherence to strict regulatory standards. Uncontrolled impurities can impact chemical processes, product safety, and operational integrity.
Unchecked microbial activity can lead to biofilm formation, clogged pipes, heat exchanger inefficiency, and corrosion. Proper process water treatment ensures microbiological control that protects your systems and products.
Corrosion slowly destroys valuable equipment, leading to leaks, loss of heat transfer efficiency, downtime, and expensive repairs. Proactive corrosion control extends equipment lifespan and can safeguard against critical equipment failures.
Minerals like calcium and magnesium naturally present in water can form scale deposits inside process water equipment and pipelines. Scale deposits restrict flow, reduce heat transfer, and accelerates wear and tear, driving up both energy consumption and maintenance costs.
Dedicated Boiler Water Treatment Support
All of our water treatment programs are supported by a dedicated team of experienced applications experts who support our field representatives with onsite and remote technical support, providing the industry’s best expertise in establishing, maintaining and troubleshooting your boiler and steam systems.
Cooling Water Treatment Chemicals
Solenis is an established leader in cooling water treatment and provides advanced solutions for mitigating the biggest cooling water challenges: biofilm, corrosion and scale. Our portfolio of cooling water treatment chemicals, which is compatible with open recirculating, closed or once-through cooling water system, includes:
- Biocides
- Biodispersants
- Biopenetrants
- Chlorine stabilizers
- Cleaners
- Corrosion inhibitors
- Phosphorus-free formulations
- Deposit control agents
- Advanced terpolymer chemistry
- Patented stress reducing technology
- Scale inhibitors
- Phosphorus-free formulations
Solenis offers several digital solutions for cooling water treatment applications, including:
- Automated chemical feed and control systems that provide proper chemical dosage as a function of system demand
- Biofilm and scale analyzers that utilize patented ultrasonic technology to accurately detect fouling
- Data management service
- Heat exchanger performance monitoring program
- Inventory monitoring service
Unlike most water treatment providers, Solenis designs and manufactures a full line of equipment and pretreatment systems in its own facilities. If one of our standard systems does not meet your site-specific needs, our engineers can customize a system that will.
- Automated Feed & Control
- Biofilm Monitoring
- Ion exchange
- Sand filtration
- Solid Water Treatment
- Reverse osmosis
- Stocked replacement parts and consumables
Solenis Equipment Benefits
- In-house manufacturing
- Standard or custom designs
- Pre-assembled manifolds
- Pre-programmed for site-specific conditions
- Pre-tested for leaks
- In-house support staff
- In-house design engineers
- Startup support
In addition to our portfolio of boiler water treatment chemicals, we also offer a variety of monitoring and control solutions, including:
- Automated chemical feed and control systems
- Coordinated phosphate-pH control system
- Data management service
- Inventory monitoring service
- Power boiler leak indication system
Notably, Solenis is the industry leader in performance-based monitoring and control systems for boiler water treatment programs. This means our chemical programs are controlled based on the level of protection you need and not on the amount of chemistry we think will do the job.
Complementing our portfolio of cooling water treatments are a variety of field and laboratory service offerings, including:
- Cooling water treatment application expertise
- Diagnostic expertise
- Laboratory analysis
- Deposit
- Metallurgical
- Microorganism characterization
- Water
- Legionella risk management
- Pilot cooling tower studies
- Chemical delivery solutions
