Boiler reached 213 degrees F tonight and made a bunch of steam. My 15 year old son thinks the boiler treatment will remain in the boiler and not escape with the steam. He says it depends on the boiling point of the water treatment. I think the water treatment will fly out with the steam. Your thoughts and opinions are greatly appreciated.
Outdoor Boiler, Steam and Water treatment
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I think I would be more concerned that my boiler boiled water out of it. To answer your question I think the chemicals are equally dispersed in the water so the amount of chemical lost would be directly related to the amount of water boiled out of the burner.
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I worked for years in the power industry where boiler chemicals were used as a matter of course. Chemicals never leave a boiler in dry steam but do get carried over in wet steam. All steam has some small percentage of moisture carried with it and that part can carry things like TSP with it. Unless you have a boiler designed to separate steam from the water you will carry over lots of moisture with the steam which means you will also carry over lots of your chemicals. The makeup water in such a system will need some chemical treatment or you will slowly run out of it and end up with an untreated boiler water system. If you use only volatile chemicals for water treatment, things like ammonia to control pH, every drop of steam will carry off its own fraction of the chemical and makeup water will need to be treated just like the initial fill water was.
Assuming you caught it right away and did not boil out half your water I would just add back water to the fill line and check your PH. This will give you a good indication of how much chemical you lost. I also run the boiler where I work I have access to very good water to start with (Soft/RO) so I am above the curve to start with. Every month I grab a sample and run TDS, PH and soft water test on it to keep it in line. If I need to add more I bring home a 5 gallon bucket and dump it in.
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