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Nucleation Assisted Crystallization On your dishes, faucets, shower walls, or coffee machines, if you have ever experienced white spots, then you have most certainly experienced hard water. Hard water consists mainly of calcium and magnesium, which form limescale and the chalky build-up on the heads and sinks of your tub. Over time, in pipes and plumbing, hard water will cause the scale to build up, increase your overall costs and shorten the life of your appliances.   Water softeners have been used for treating hard water since the early 1900s. Several types of water softeners are available, including salt-based ion exchange and electromagnetic water softeners.  However, advancements in hard water treatment have been made over the last two decades. Enabling consumers to enjoy many of the advantages of a water softener without using salt. This technique is called Water Conditioning. The advantages of conditioning over softening are that it is less costly, does not require constant maintenance, and is much safer for the climate. There are a few water conditioning techniques that have been introduced to the market to date, but none are as successful as Nucleation Assisted Crystallization (NAC). In this article, we will address what this technology is, how it works, and the comparison with traditional water softeners, including experts’ opinions.       What is a Nucleation Assisted Crystallization System and how does it work? The Nucleation Assisted Crystallization (NAC) System is a non-salt-based system that uses unique technology to transform hard dissolved minerals into harmless micro-crystals that are relatively insoluble. NAC is a media designed to reduce the negative effects of scaling from hard water without using salt and without removing the healthy minerals from the water. The system is an ideal way to protect expensive equipment from lime scale while cutting maintenance costs.       

Working Principle: How does FILTERSORB SP3® NAC work?   When the hard water undergoes throw FILTERSORB® SP3 media beads in the pressure vessel, provide nucleation sites that cause dissolved calcium, magnesium, and bicarbonate to transform into micro-crystals. Once formed and detached from the surface of FILTERSORB® SP3 media beads, the crystals will not adhere to any other surfaces, even in the case of hot water applications.   When hard water is treated using NAC media, it neutralizes the negative effects of the hard water. The calcium and magnesium in the water combine on the surface of the NAC media beads and are eventually released back into the water in the form of non-soluble micro-crystals. In addition, the formed crystals provide essential minerals to the water and making it the healthiest water available. Above all, FILTERSORB® SP3 does not add up any sodium in the water as conventional softeners do.            FILTERSORB-SP3® (NAC) vs Traditional Water Softener The conventional sodium-based water softeners remove minerals from hard water through an ion-exchange process. A water softener, passes water through a polymer resin bed which gives off a sodium particle in exchange for hardness minerals. This treatment needs salt, energy, and a cycle of regeneration that flushes water down the drain regularly. In many regions around the US, water softener usage is prohibited because treatment plants are unable to extract salt and this water is unusable for irrigation.   While is FILTERSORB® SP3 NAC, the water is considered conditioned not softened. It simply preserves the mineral contents of water, making the treated water the healthiest mineral water availablep

Nucleation Assisted Crystallization

FILTERSORB® CT (Combine Treatment), a more efficient and simple treatment to prevent all kinds of scale. FILTERSORB® CT combines the two types of FILTERSORB: the FILTERSORB® SP3 and the FILTERSORB®SPA. FILTERSORB® SP3 prevents cationic scale (based on positively charged ions) such as Calcium and Magnesium. The SPA prevents anionic scale (based on negatively charged ions) such as Sulfates, Silicates and Phosphates (Calcium phosphate).

FILTERSORB® CT is an excellent choice for all residential, industrial, and commercial applications since it provides optimum scale prevention. In addition, this combined technology results in very high efficiency and provides additional capacity to the system.

The FILTERSORB® SP3 and FILTERSORB® SPA combination is well suited to treat water with hardness over 15 grains or permanent hardness over 250 mg of (Ca + Mg + SiO2 + SO4) is typically over 60 % of the total anions.

FILTERSORB® CT is a Nucleation and Exothermic Combination
The best way to treat both anions as well as cations in hard water which can provide safe treatment of scale with 100 times more power.

Nucleation
FILTERSORB® SP3 works in a process of nucleation in which the media absorbs cations from its surroundings in the form of crystal and release CO2 in the form of gas → splitting a gas molecule.

Exothermic
FILTERSORB® SPA is an exothermic process in which the media separates the anions (negatively charged) from positively charged cations in the form of ionic bonds on the surface called EXO (outside) on very strong positively charged beads.

The two types of FILTERSORB® units are SP3 scale prevention and SPA anion scale prevention.
SP3 units prevent cationic scale based on positively charged ions such as calcium and magnesium
and with nucleation, it changes them into CaCO3 crystals.
SPA units prevent scale based on negatively charged ions such as sulfates, silicates and phosphates (Calcium phosphate).
FILTERSORB® CT : Mixed media units prevent scale of both cations and anions, both positively and negatively charged ions.In addition, it needs no regeneration, no chemical feed and no electrical valve head or wastewater outlet. FILTERSORB® CT is a continuous up-flow system, which can treat both:
Point-of-entry (POE)
Point-of-use (POU)

Due to differences between temporary hardness and permanent hardness that make up the total hardness in water, we have combined FILTERSORB® SP3 and FILTERSORB® SPA in a 50 : 50 mix. This configuration is described as FILTERSORB® CT . The 50% SP3 treats temporary hardness based on carbonate hardness and the 50% SPA treats for permanent hardness which is mostly based on sulfates and silicates.