Water: Summary
Protecting water based systems from rust - key weakness of such systems.
Rust leads to more rust in a chain reaction of wear.
Notes
Water systems face particular problems from ferrous particles.
In particular, they are very susceptible to rust as the water attacks any iron or steel surface to produce iron oxides. This rust then creates more rust through a chain reaction of wear. Therefore if you remove the rust you stop more being created because:-
- Water directly attacks iron and steel surfaces to produce iron oxides.
- Water teams up with acid in the water to increase the corrosive potential in the attack of ferrous and nonferrous metals.
- Rust and corrosion lead to rapid surface deterioration when abrasive particles are present.
- Rust particles are also abrasive.
Abrasion by the rust then exposes fresh nascent base metal which is more easily corroded in the presence of water and acid.
In all industry applications removal of ferrous contaminant from water lines and systems is critical.
Within the Magnom™ range there are units available specifically designed for aqueous environments. These are available with stainless steel 430 flux plates (to prevent corrosion).
Magnom™ units have been used successfully to remove all forms of ferrous down to less than one micron in size from:-
- Wash Systems
- Domestic central heating systems
- Steam lines
- Well water
- Bore hole water supplies
- Industrial heating and cooling systems