Overview
The American Bottoms Wastewater Treatment Facility is a very large facility located in Sauget, Illinois. They can treat an average of 26-52 million gallons of wastewater a day of municipal and industrial water.
Challenges
Heavy limescale formation on structures & equipment (from quicklime that is added to neutralize the water) were forming 8” – 10” thick. There were huge expenses from cleaning & disposal of the limescale on a weekly basis plus all of the downtime.
Solution
The SB-4000, SB-3600 and SB-2800 were installed on the two main water pipes (36” pipe) transferring the incoming wastewater to the process. One SB-2000 was installed on the lime recirculation line to treat the lime slurry.
Installed
February 23, 2012
Outcome
Within the first month, scale formation slowed down dramatically, thus reducing the cleaning of the structures to a fraction of the time. The scale formation was much softer also. As an added bonus, they no longer needed to add polymers to the water saving more than $1,000 a month. The savings on cleaning, equipment repair, replacement, energy, water usage, manpower, downtime and use of a polymer is estimated at more than $100,000 a year.
Founder and Co-Owner of Clearwater Enviro Technologies
Jeff Conway is the founder and co-owner of Clearwater Enviro Technologies, which opened in 1989 from the city it started from – Clearwater, Florida. The first product line was the Clearwater Pool Systems with Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin as it’s company spokesman. In 1995, the electronic water conditioner ScaleBlaster was added to the product line. Jeff was born in Auburn, Indiana but grew up in Fairfield, Connecticut. He is a graduate of Florida Southern College in 1978 and has resided in the Tampa Bay area ever since. Several products have evolved over the years, making the company the largest manufacturer of mineral ionization equipment and electronic water conditioners in the world.