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Manual Pallas Condor 7
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4. FUNCTIONING
4.1. GENERAL FUNCTIONING
OF A WATER SOFTENER
A water softener provides softened
water by removing ions such as
Calcium and Magnesium from the
incoming water. The incoming water
is sent to the valve that directs the
water over a vessel filled with special
softener resins. These resins will
exchange the “hard” Ca- and Mg-ions
present in the water for soft “Na”-ions.
The softened water coming out of the
vessel is then sent via the valve to the
different tap-points in the house.
The resins have a certain capacity
to remove hard ions from the water.
The harder the water or the higher
the water consumption, the faster
the resins will be exhausted. As the
water hardness is known and fixed,
the resin bed will be exhausted
after a certain amount of water. At
this moment, the resins have to be
regenerated in order to bring them
back to their initial capacity. This
regeneration is done by bringing
them in contact with brine (dissolved
salt (Na-ions)). In order to be able to
create the brine, the softener-cabinet
is to be filled with salt-tablets. After
brining, the resin bed has to be rinsed
and backwashed so that there is no
salty taste and the resin bed is in
perfect condition to capture again
incoming hardness ions (Ca- and
Mg-ions).
The heart of the softener is the
valve, equipped with a controller
that manages the softener in a fully
automated way. Water consumption
is measured and the valve will
trigger at the appropriate moment a
regeneration. A regeneration consists
out of 4 cycles:
• Backwash: water is sent over the
resin bed in the opposite way in
order to remove possible impurities
on top of the bed and to unpack the
resin bed.
• Brining and slow-rinse: brine is
being sent over the resin bed.
• Refill: water is sent to the part of the
cabinet where the salt is located.
This water will dissolve a part of the
salt so that the necessary brine will
be available to perform the next
regeneration.
• Fast rinse: the last traces of brine
are removed and the bed is packed
again.