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OPTIONS TO CONSIDEROPTIONS TO CONSIDER

SUGGESTED CONFIGURATIONSUGGESTED CONFIGURATION
Recently, I designed a head connection system (see
Tank Output Monitoring: Consider adding a conductiv-
Figure 6) for an aerospace client that incorporates all
ity status light to monitor the quality of the tank output
water. This will warn you that a tank needs to be changed
the options into a compact, professional installation that
allows tank changeover in less than a minute.
prior to your process shutting down due to water quality
issues. (See Figure 4)
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Figure 6

VIRGIN VS REGENERATED RESINVIRGIN VS REGENERATED RESIN
There are those who insist that virgin resin gives purer
outlet water, has greater capacity, and has better pH con-
trol than regenerated resin. Let’s examine each of these
claims:
Figure 4
Water Quality – Water quality is directly related to the TECHTIPS
number of active ionic sites imparted to each bead as
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Safety Screen: Consider adding a safety screen to the
a result of the chemical processing of the resin beads.
bottle output fl ow to guard against stray resin beads
Since the process of regeneration is similar to that used
contaminating your machine in the event of an internal
in making new resin, the care taken in the processing
bottle failure. (See Figure 5)
will have a direct effect on the water quality produced
by either virgin or regenerated resin. In fact, some highly
regarded domestic virgin resin suppliers purchase low
quality imported virgin resin and then regenerate it to
bring it up to USA standards. Thus, the virgin resin you
purchase may already have been regenerated once, but
in reality it makes little difference.

Capacity – The argument presented previously applies
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here also.
pH – The effects of pH on resin system outlet water are
strictly related to the care taken in the rinsing procedures
utilized after the chemical processing of the resin beads
Figure 5
in either the virgin resin or regenerated resin manufactur-
ing processes.

If you are utilizing a top quality regeneration house, the
virgin vs regenerated argument doesn’t hold up.

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