ScaleMaster™
Theory
Scale is a coating or precipitate deposited on surfaces that are in contact with hard
water. The most common form of scale is calcium carbonate. Scale is most visually evident
as hard white deposits which build up in faucets, shower heads, toilets, bath tubs,
glassware in residential houses and in commercial use such as coffee and ice makers, and
in industrial use such as cooling towers, boilers, heat exchangers and evaporators. Many
billions of dollars are lost due to equipment failure or replacement caused by scale
buildup.
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 Agriculture
Boilers
Breweries
Car Wash
Coffee
Makers
Cooling
Towers
Dairy
Farms
Decorative
Foundations
Dish Washes
Distillers
Drip
Irrigation
Evaporative
Coolers
Evaporator
Filtration
Equipment
Fitness
Center / Spas
Heat
Exchangers
Hospitals
Hotels
Ice-making
Machinery
Injection
Molding
Laundry
Manufacturing Facilities
Nursing
Homes
Oil Wells
Paper Pulp
Mills
Poultry
Farms
Processing
Equipment
Residential
Homes
Restaurants
Schools
Soft Drink
Manufactures
Swimming
Pools
Hot Tubs
Sugar Mills
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The ScaleMaster™ unit is composed of a signal cable that is
wrapped several times around the pipe and an electronic unit that sends out a complex,
dynamic current to produce extremely small, time-varying oscillating fields inside the
pipe. The current that produces a oscillating field is known as Ampere’s Law.
ScaleMaster’s™ signal produces a
unique square wave current that sweeps all the frequency responses from 1,000 - 12,000 Hz
at a rate of 20 times a second. When the strength of the oscillating field varies with
time and changes direction, an induced current is produced inside the pipe, a phenomenon
known as Faraday’s Law of Induction.
As the induced electric field oscillates, all particles which have an
electrical charge are affected by the induced field. This causes the unstable mineral ions
to precipitate or collide with each other to the point where the calcium carbonate
crystals grow until they become so large that there are no more surface charges left to
stick to the pipe walls. These calcium molecules precipitate into an aragonite form and
flow through the system. As a byproduct of this “snowball” effect, freed water
molecules become available to remove existing scale, molecule by molecule. |
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