Operating Costs Compared
It’s a sliver of your overall facilities budget, but effective water treatment can make an enormous difference in your other costs. Your Garratt-Callahan representative can help you calculate the potential savings from your custom water treatment solution.
Treatment Value
Expert water treatment from Garratt-Callahan can cut your water, energy, and maintenance costs substantially. Perhaps most important of all, it can save you the cost of fixing or replacing equipment that’s been damaged by inadequate water treatment – including the downtime and lost revenue usually associated with solving such problems.
The examples of water treatment ROI on this page show even very thin layers of deposited material from poorly treated water can drive up energy costs. Our case histories, featured throughout this website, also document how we’ve saved actual customers tens of thousands of dollars a year and more.
Examples of Water Treatment ROI
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Scale
System: 1,000 ton chiller
Operation: 12 hours/day, 365 days/year
Cost of electricity: $0.10/kWh
Scale thickness: 1/32 inch
Elimination of 1/32 inch of scale saved $15,018 per year.
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Biological Fouling
System: 1,000 ton chiller
Operation: 12 hours/day, 365 days/year
Cost of electricity: $0.10/kWh
Biofilm thickness: 1/1000 inch
Elimination of 1/1000 inch of biofilm saved $26,834 per year.