The tests carried out at the University of Padua demonstrate that water treated with the TECNOACQUE ecologic system eliminates calcareous scale.

 
The water coming both from water systems and from natural sources (such as river, lakes, springs, wells...) plays a first-rank role from a biological point of view and also as regards its innumerable civil and industries uses. The set composed of calcium bicarbonate, magnesium and the various mineral salts dissolved in it represents the degree of water hardness that determines the tendency to calcareous scale. As temperature increases, calcium bicarbonate Ca(HCO3)2 liberates carbon dioxide (CO2) and changes into solid calcium carbonate (CaCO3), responsible for hard calcium scaling.

    

In nature, its structure has two differents crystalline forms: Calcite e Aragonite.

Calcite:
Calcium carbonate crystal having a rhombohedral shape and high capacity of aggregation and compactness.
Aragonite:
Needle-shaped calcium carbonate crystal having low capacity of aggregation and compactness.

The crystalline form responsible for calcareous scale is calcite.
The crystallization of calcareous scale in the water ecologically treated with TECNOACQUE is exclusively aragonitic to the extent of 100%, in comparison with calcite.

  

PHOTOGRAPH n.1
     

PHOTOGRAPH n.2
  Analysis of calcareous scale after boiling, carried out at the University of Padua.
PHOTOGRAPH N.
SAMPLE
% CALCITE
% ARAGONITE
1
WATER AS IT IS
40
60
2
WATER TREATED WITH TECNOACQUE
Absent
100

    


Visual check of the external state of the copper heat exchangers after the test carried out by the University of Padua (photograph n.3). On the left: Coil with non-treated water. On the right: Coil with water treated with TECNOACQUE. Analysis of the calcareous scale formed on the external surface of the copper heat exchanger, carried out at the University of Padua.

SAMPLE
% CALCITE
% ARAGONITE
WATER AS IT IS
30
70
WATER TREATED WITH TECNOACQUE
Absent
100

 

  
 PHOTOGRAPH n.3