Case Study: 100
Cetamine® V217 in municipal housing complex
Cleaning effect of Cetamine® treatment
1. KEYWORDS
Cetamine®, boiler, heating system, cleaning,
municipal housing
2. BACKGROUND
This case study is based on an application in a
municipal housing complex. The steam is used
to heating buildings on a campus.
The boilers got very little attention from the
onsite staff. The softener was not working
properly. The blown down was logged daily but
no analysis of the water was done.
The system is running 5-6 months per year and
then just shut-down. It was not treated during
shut down and not drained.
When the system started up at the beginning of
a new heating season, the lines were full of
corrosion and scale and it took a month to clear
up the water.
The heat transfer was reduced and the system
was showing a big wear.
Technical data:
Type of boiler: Fire tube boiler
Boiler pressure: 2 bar
Make-up: softened water
Return of condensate: 65-90%
3. OBJECTIVES
• Improvement of the service to ensure proper
use of softener
• Reduction of corrosion and scale formation
• Cleaning of boiler in order to reduce the scale
and improve heat transfer
4. ACTIONS / APPROACH
A good service was the basis for the treatment
concept. With this a proper operation of the
softener could be achieved. As chemical
treatment Cetamine® V217 was dosed in the
system.
Cetamine® V217 is an all-organic product to
prevent corrosion in steam boilers by formation
of a protective film on metal surfaces. Due to its
distribution ratio between gas and liquid phase,
Cetamine® V217 also protects steam and
condensate lines.
Cetamine® V217 prevents scale formation in
boilers by stabilizing and dispersing hardness
and deposits. Due to these properties it can also
clean boilers from existing scale and corrosion
products.
In a first test period one boiler was treated with
Cetamine® to monitor the treatment success.
5. RESULTS
The service provided improved the water quality
as the softener is now running properly.
The corrosion and scale formation was
completely prevented. The water in the boiler
cleared up in a few weeks.
The very high amount of existing scale could be
eliminated nearly completely.
All the boilers are now treated with Cetamine®
V217.
Courtesy of Guardian CSC, York, PA
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App 1: Hall Manor boiler 1 before tre

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all Manor booiler 1 after trreatment

App 3: Hall Manor boiler 2 before tre

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