Overview
Purdue University was founded in 1869 and today has about 39,000 students and more than 3,000 academic staff members. They offer more than 200 majors for undergraduates and over 70 masters and doctoral programs with professional degrees in pharmacy and veterinary medicine. Purdue is a member of the Big Ten Conference and has 18 intercollegiate sports teams and 900 student organizations.
Challenges
Due to the hard water in West Lafayette, the cooling tower for the campus’s own power plant was constantly clogging up with heavy limescale and causing issues. The university was looking at ways to conserve energy and water and has given ScaleBlaster a try.
Solution
A large SB-3600 industrial ScaleBlaster unit was installed on the chilled water loop going to the cooling tower.
Installed
August 26, 2013
Outcome
There have been no scaling issues at all since the date of the installation. A complete study has been ongoing and will be released soon with full details on the full results including water savings and more. Additional units will be added at that time upon the final review.
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.