Aqua for industry
The circular economy model is transforming the way we manage resources. With Aqua, you can elevate process efficiency, cost savings and the quality of your product—all while you make the best choice for our planet.
Heating water leads to build-ups
Large quantities of heated and cooled water are regularly used in industrial operations. These businesses are exposed to the constant challenges of dealing with limescale, which impacts the performance of key equipment: heat exchangers, boiler rooms, cooling towers, steam generators and water pumps, leading to a loss in efficiency of heating and cooling systems.
All this results in significantly increased energy and water bills, water leakage, unscheduled services and maintenance needs, more intensive use of labour and materials, premature aging of machinery, regular demand for their replacement and production downtime. Associated bacteriological issues can even arise, including biofilm, algae and harmful bacteria—in particular, Legionella.
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Problems with traditional solutions
Traditional solutions for limescale treatment often involve a combination of potentially harmful chemicals, expensive reverse osmosis systems, ion exchangers and water softening systems. They demand large quantities of salt and water for internal operational processes, accumulating significant financial costs together with often inconsistent protection performance.
Salt and chemical based solutions are costly and harmful to the environment. They impact the groundwater and harm animal life, while affecting quality and taste when used in food and beverage production. Dealing with scale buildup can become an expensive way to deplete resources.
Aqua Solution
Secure strategic capital investment of your manufacturing plant and machinery assets on a long-term basis with Aqua 3000 and Aqua 5000 models. Our reliable mature cutting-edge technology has served in production contexts for over 30 years, gaining a powerful reputation as one of the leading descaling solutions on the market. Aqua serves Absolut Vodka, Tetra Pak, Stena Line, Spendrups Brewery, ABB, Alfa Laval, HSB, Riksbyggen, Scandic Hotels, Vattenfall, Grundfos, Boliden and many more satisfied customers.
Gain an overall competitive business advantage by adoption of Aqua cutting-edge technology
We know your water
Our products are used in various industries and industrial applications: think data centres, agriculture, cruise ships, mining, steel, energy, pulp and paper manufacturing, food and drink production, waste water treatment and municipal water supply.
We assist large industries as they strive to meet specific demands for cost-effective management. By eliminating the conditions that cause unnecessary costs and production interruption, Aqua delivers large-scale, permanent cost savings by improving operational efficiency. Implementing Aqua technology will reduce carbon footprint, boost equipment performance, improve both water management and production optimisation overall. When strategic assets are healthy, production facilities can achieve constant peak output with the principles of circular economy. Integrating Aqua makes for excellent proof of concept.
Adoption of Aqua technology on the long- term basis empowers optimized usage of resources, materials and reduced energy consumption, which in turn lower green house gas emissions.
Empower your cost efficiency and maximise savings with Aqua 5000
SAVINGS
Our smart technology enables ROI already within the first year in use, simply by lowering energy demands by up to 50%, together with notably increased productivity of limescale-free machinery and pipework. Water management tasks are significantly improved by increased water efficiency, preventing leakage and lowering the demand for water consumption. Aqua products are completely maintenance-free during the entire 15-year lifespan, without any hidden costs. Enables protection of entire operations from a single point of installation.
FUNCTIONALTY
Aqua’s outstanding functionality enables users to protect an entire facility from one point of installation. It protects against equipment failure, unplanned downtime and productivity disruptions caused by limescale.
Aqua is mounted on the wall without demand for cutting pipes, preserving floor space and eliminating the need for chemical storage. It is simple to double or triple protection capacity by parallel installation of up to 3 Aqua products where demanded. Completely automated, Aqua technology has no need for supervision or maintenance during its entire 15-year lifespan.
SUSTAINABILITY
Achieving sustainability goals is an important objective. There are increasing demands on organisations to lead by example with clear, socially responsible corporate mission with imperative to deliver on these goals, meet regulations as well exceed stakeholder and customer expectations. Industry participates in the underlying social, economic and ecological challenges of sustainable transformation in society. Aqua allows users to significantly improve their sustainability profile in a meaningful way, with a one-off low-key investment and fast ROI.
Developing green policies offers various benefits to your business, including:
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Increased cost savings
Improved resource efficiency
Reduced environmental footprint and greenhouse gas emissions
Adding opportunities for higher and additional value of products
Improved corporate image
Increased resilience to climate change
The Aqua product range is a completely eco-friendly solution, with no chemical or salt additives. Large-scale carbon emission reduction is enabled through optimisation of energy efficiency. Softer water means a 30% decrease in need for cleaning and sanitizing products. The lifespan of equipment and pipes is prolonged 2-3 times, while replacement costs and scrappage of equipment shrink.
CIRCULAR ECONOMY
The circular economy is an imperative concept for corporations and stakeholders, as a demonstration of corporate social responsibility. Aqua cuts energy use, waste and resource demands. It also promotes the best practices for business—the least wasteful—by extending your equipment lifespan. Our products enrich the quality of the water supply and the rationality of your approach to energy efficiency, without any negative effects.
Figure: Aqua technology supports the effort to adopt circular economy concepts
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Power of Aqua, Industry by Industry
Agriculture (Growing indoor and outdoor fruit/vegetables)
Calcium rich water leaves a white coat on plants' leaves, disturbing natural photosynthesis and growth. Aqua prevents the white coat effect, allowing full capacity growth, which increases profitability of the site. It also ensures smooth operation of water supply pipes, water pumps, refrigeration and evaporative systems (applicable for indoor growing operations) as well removes the risk of scale clogs and interrupted water supply.
Farming (Dairy and poultry farming)
Dairy farms use large quantities of heated and cooled water, accounting for over 60% of their electricity use. The equipment will underperform when limescale is present, demanding frequent servicing and replacements, while using increasingly higher amounts of electricity. Poultry equipment affected by hard water will develop build-up in pipes, humidity controls, spray nozzles, jets, valve seats, boilers, thermostats and fittings on hatchery machines, resulting in insufficient functionality, frequent breakdowns and production interruption. It also causes leaking nipple drinkers and reduced effectiveness in sanitizing and cleaning products. As a consequence limescale will negatively affect the health and growth performance of poultry, directly effecting profitability of the site. Aqua will effectively prevent the above issues with its powerful and around the clock highest level of protection, enabling smooth operations and achieving significant financial gains.
Breweries
Limescale creates costly and time-consuming issues in the brewing industry. Scale build-up usually occurs on brewing production equipment, causing loss of efficiency in heating and cooling system, clogged beer lines, together with increased demand for harmful and expensive descaling chemicals. Chemical solutions that completely remove minerals from the water have a negative effect on the texture and taste of beer. Aqua prevents scale build-up while preserving minerals in the water, allowing a smooth production process and ensuring the rich taste of the end product.
Hotels
Sensitive boiler and heat exchanger equipment must be kept in perfect condition to deliver on-demand hot and cold water. Cooling towers and air-conditioning units have to perform at peak levels, guest room fixtures must be kept in perfect condition. Swimming pool heating equipment and extensive water piping throughout the property need to provide uninterrupted water supply. Hotel facilities can face increased maintenance costs and equipment failure; deterioration in operating efficiency is partly due to the impact of limescale on key system components. Aqua delivers substantial savings by supporting the maintenance of critical hotel operation equipment. It enables a large scope of energy, water and carbon savings, allowing faster and easier cleaning with reduced use of cleaning and laundry products. Aqua technology brings a high range of capital savings, especially in the form of smooth operations and reduced challenges for facility managers.
Commercial and Industrial buildings
In hard water areas, it is common to encounter scale build-up in cooling towers, heat exchangers and piping through entire commercial buildings. As a direct consequence, there is excess energy and water use, water leaks, pressure losses, extensive maintenance costs, parts replacement, chemicals and workforce impacts. Aqua enables equal circulation of heated water to the every part of the building. Through implementation of our technology, managers can protect, prevent and save substantial amount of money, resources and effort while keeping operations running smoothly. Additionally Aqua empowers decarbonisation of the entire building/plant with one-off limited initial investment.
Healthcare facilities
Without a high-functioning limescale protection system in place, there are serious health risks related to hidden issues that can escalate rapidly. Medical facilities are in a constant demand for uninterrupted supply of warm water and fresh air. Due to scale accumulation in piping systems, heat exchangers and cooling towers, a real threat of biofilm creation can arise, caused by bacteria that thrives on limescale surfaces. This may trigger the creation of Legionella disease. Aqua's powerful, around-the-clock automated protection will keep all sensitive surfaces free from build-up, preventing bacteria from finding a breeding ground and eliminating the risk of Legionella. Aqua will also enable heat exchangers to function normally, allowing water to be heated above 60°C, which is one of the main conditions for suppressing bacterial growth.
Food processing plants
A functional water system is critical for the profitability of food processing business. Limescale build-up alone is the main factor of equipment failure, causing increased overall operational costs of the facility. Downtime results in loss of production, profitability and even dips in product quality. Aqua’s powerful, automated 24/7 protection contributes to high water quality, uninterrupted production, substantially contributing to increased overall cost efficiency.
District/central heating plants
Constant demand for heated water often triggers the creation of scale build up, lowering the effectiveness of heat transfer surfaces, uneven transfer of hot water and blocking water flow in the system. Direct consequences are energy efficiency reduction of up to 50%, enduring water leaks, system failure, premature aging, skyrocketing maintenance and operational costs. Installing Aqua in a district heating plant will prevent any potential issues related to the accumulation of scale, ensuring a smooth run of hot water operations, with no need to supervise the process. Aqua prevents unscheduled service interruptions while keeping equipment operating with maximum efficiency, completely excluding use of chemicals.
Municipal water treatment plants
A critical task for delivering clean, safe water to a community involves meeting the highest standards of consistency with respect to water treatment. In cases where hard water is an issue, water treatment plant managers face severe challenges as they confront this rising problem in the piping system and pumping equipment. Aqua’s power to protect large water flow capacities and long pipe distances from one point of installation will provide ideal long-term protection for water treatment plants. With one-off investment and fast ROI, Aqua’s reliable technology provides a highly effective solution for water treatment plants on a long-term basis.
Pharmaceutical Industry
Hard water affects HVAC equipment as well as the pipes, boilers, valves, pumps and rest of water fed equipment. Costs of running humidifiers can be extremely high in hard water areas. It requires high intensity labour and material operating costs. Aqua will save on maintenance, chemical treatment and production downtime costs. Equally it lowers the amount of water used in operations and improves the overall sustainability profile of the plant.
Electricity Suppliers
The majority of Electricity Suppliers undertake regular maintenance and repair of their key clients’ industrial energy equipment. Aqua system protects against corrosion of pipes and water-fed equipment increasing their maximum life expectancy, preventing production downtime, while significantly reducing labour and maintenance costs. Lime-free equipment operates with optimal efficiency, resulting in reduction of overall operating costs, better heat transfer and heat recovery operations.