Can water treatment choices improve your Carbon Footprint?

Those of you who are familiar with the solid water treatment technologies developed by APTech Group know that there are many benefits to transitioning your boilers, cooling towers and closed loop systems to our advanced EnduroSolv® solid chemical solutions.

In addition to financial savings derived from utilizing EnduroSolv® solid water treatment, there are environmental factors and savings to consider. “Carbon Footprint” savings from switching from 55 gallon drums of liquid chemistry to EnduroSolv® solids are many and include:

• Fuel savings from reduced weight in freight delivery
• Plastic savings from reduced container size
• Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH) savings from reduced power to produce NaOH)

Let’s consider a Cooling Tower on a 20 story office building with 500 tons refrigeration. The following would be the estimated annual liquid chemistry, used to treat the water:

• 6 - 55 gallon drums of scale/corrosion chemistry
• 2 - 55 gallon drums of micro biological chemistry
• 2 - 55 gallon drums of cleaners

In this example, the liquid chemistry is shipped 600 miles to the office building via trucks using diesel fuel.

For this office building, switching to EnduroSolv® solids would generate the following Carbon Dioxide (CO2) reductions, also known as Carbon Footprint savings:

Transport fuel savings - 422 lbs of CO2 per year
Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH) savings - 888 lbs of CO2 per year
Plastic used reduced - 542 lbs of CO2 per year

Total Savings - 1,852 lbs of CO2 per year

Keep in mind that while your Carbon Footprint savings may not be a really big number, it is the combination effect of you and others adopting greener practices that will have a powerful multiplier effect. And with EnduroSolv® solids already in use in over 3,000 installations, that multiplier effect is already occurring.