Selección e instalación del ablandador adecuado para el tratamiento de agua del caldero existente en la Escuela de Ingeniería de Mantenimiento.

Abstract

The present research war aimed at selecting and installing a water softener for the existing boiler at Maintenance Engineering School, Mechanic Faculty, ESPOCH; where adequate water treatment was needed, in order to ensure the proper functioning of equipment and prevent future problems. In addition, an analysis of the initial state of the cauldron was made, resulting in problems of corrosion and scale, so proper maintenance, getting, determining that the softener is in poor operating conditions and as a result it became necessary decide this change of elements or complete acquisition of equipment. Previous to selecting the right softener, a chemical water analysis with the support of the TESQUIMSA Company was performed and bases on the Standard ABMA, with these results was reached to establish the need to select a new tenderizer, where the sizing of the same; it was based on the methodology from VDE Company, Softener installation, programming, commissioning and testing of cauldron correct operation was performed, verifying the change in water chemistry parameters. Once this process proceeded to develop the maintenance manual for soften and work orders. With the installation of appropriate parameters tenderizer, detrimentally affect the cauldron and thus the correct operation was achieved and achieve the life of the asset