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This invention pertains to water softeners, water quality, and more particularly to an operational process for an electronically controlled lime conditioner.
Drinking water primarily comes from two sources. Drinking water is obtained from the bodies of water on the earth's surface,and also from subterranean wells which gather water after it is filtered through the top layers of the earth strata. After water (H2O) passes through the uppermost layers of the earths surface, it contains carbon-dioxide (CO2), a carbonic acid. In the lower strata of the earth, the carbonic acid enriched H2O water disolves lime (CaCO3) from the subterranean rock and converts it to calcium hydrogen carbonate. The resulting calcium-hydrogen carbonate is the source of lime deposits and encrustations (scale) which is known to form in water systems.
Regardless of the source of drinking water, water typically contains carbon-dioxide (CO2) and the earth's alkalines, such as calcium and magnesium. The total hardness of water is determined by the sum calcium-hydrogen carbonate, magnesium-hydrogen carbonate and the non-carbonate starches which include calcium and magnesium component solutions. Consequently, the water "hardness" is dependent upon the amount of lime in the water.
There are several methods of preventing limestone deposit formation (scale and encrustation) in water systems. In one method, ion exchanging mechanisms are used to remove the calcium ions Ca2+ and the calcium-hydrogen carbonate from the water by combining the calcium ions and the calcium-hydrogen carbonate with sodium ions from sodium chloride (NaCL). Another method uses phosphate chemicals as an additive mechanism to prevent the formation of crust deposits. The lime is either contained by the added chemicals or it forms a sediment which is flushed by the water moving through the system. A third method for preventing the formation of lime deposits uses an electronic lime controller which generates an electronically modulated frequency, amplified triangulated wave form which is then oscillated to change the separation characteristics of calcium and carbonates before it enters the water system. The process is purely physical as it uses no chemical additives.
Electronic descalers produce a wave pattern which addresses the polarity of water and its ability to contain particulants. When the water molecule enters the field of disturbance it is reversed in polarity. During this reversal the contaminant is released and is also affected by the electronic polarity change. This is a continuing change since the field is osillated to change polarity and frequency and the amplitude as well. This wave form of a triangulated shape is critical in production of treatment due to the fact that water can only be addressed when it changes polarity. Hence the square wave generators commonly used are only effective on vertical lines indicating polarity change, only during this limited time (5%) is this field effective. The triangulated wave is continuously changing polarity and is therefore more efficient. When the water molecule is reversed it releases its contaminant and immediately searches for matter to replace the lost substance. In this instance it would be previous scale accumulation which in turn descales existing systems as well as prevents further encrustations.
Since this method addresses the hydrogen bond of molecules, it is not to difficult to assume that it will be effective with other substances or compounds.
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