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Keep Operating Full Steam Ahead

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You may think your commercial steam equipment does a little double duty — wearing its chef hat in the kitchen while helping to purify the water that runs through, thanks to the high temps. But in reality, steam is a major culprit for scale buildup, which can seriously impact equipment efficiency and performance over time.

Simply being hot isn’t enough to put a damper on contaminants. You need steam filtration to help reduce those undesirable elements.

Why’s that? When water turns into steam, chemicals, contaminants, and minerals like calcium and magnesium don’t evaporate like water. When water evaporates, the minerals stick around (literally). While limescale isn’t a concern for human health, it is a biggie for your equipment.

An example of this is your tea kettle. Ever go to boil water and you see a chalky white residue inside? That’s mineral deposits left behind or limescale.

Luckily, with the proper steam water filter or other water technology, you can help put a stop to those steam woes for good.

Summing Up Buildup

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To recap quickly — calcium and magnesium are the two most common minerals found in hard water. When you use hard water with a steaming equipment filter, it causes scale buildup. Buildup can clog equipment, add to your routine cleaning and maintenance, decrease operational efficiency, corrode equipment, and speed up the need for replacements.

Take steam ovens for example — just 1/8th inch of scale can increase energy usage 25 percent.* Both combi ovens and steam ovens are big ticket items. While they’re both necessary for locking in flavor and nutrients, you don’t want to keep replacing them, one after another. That’s where solutions like steam water filters come into play.

Filtering Through Your Options

Let’s quickly run through the technologies that are tough on hard water.

Reverse Osmosis

RO steam water filter options force water through a semipermeable membrane, separating 97 percent or more substances from pure water. What’s more, a steam filter like Everpure EZ-RO saves up to 50 percent water. EZ-RO is an ideal solution for both boiler-less and flash steam equipment.

Inhibiting Technology

This technology is all about cutting down on chlorine in your water. Inhibiting steaming equipment filter systems suspends dissolved calcium minerals as well as allows them to be flushed away when the boiler is drained. Inhibiting technology is recommended for boiler steam applications, not combi ovens.

Filtration

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Now let’s say you need to get down to the smallest particles. Some steaming equipment filters are designed to capture these finer contaminants. Everpure Kleensteam® combines carbon filtration and inhibition technology for an all-in-one steam water filter.

Softening

Think of softening as the pretreatment to your water treatment. If you’re concerned about limescale buildup on your steam equipment, like combi ovens, softening can help remove the calcium and magnesium ions. However, softening is not a complete steaming equipment filter and does not address TDS (Total Dissolved Solids) or other minerals. We recommend pairing a softening system with a high-efficiency RO system as a one-two-punch solution to better water and long-lasting equipment.

STEAM UP YOUR KITCHEN WITH A STEAM WATER FILTER

Now that you know your options, keep your commercial kitchen
operating full steam ahead with Everpure steam water filter solutions.

*https://johnstonboiler.com/resources/product knowledge-base/scale-deposits-and-efficiency-loss/

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