How Your Water System Works - Kinetico MACH Serie Manual Del Propietário

How Your Water Softener Works
Hard water contains calcium and magnesium. Your Kinetico water sys-
tem contains resin beads, which hold sodium ions. When hard water
passes through the resin beads (Fig. 3) inside a Kinetico water system,
the beads attract and hold the calcium and magnesium ions in ex-
change for sodium. After this ion exchange process, the water leaving your
Kinetico water system is soft.
Once the resin bed is loaded with calcium and magnesium ions, it must
be cleansed (or regenerated) so that it can continue to soften water. The
salt in your salt storage tank mixes with water to wash the resin beads.
The brine solution loosens the hardness minerals which have built up
on the resin beads; then the system backwashes and flushes the hardness
minerals and salt solution away.
Fig. 3
Water Softener
Softening
Cycle
With Sodium
Charged Material
Waste Water Containing
Hardness in Exchange for
Regeneration
Cycle
Salt Brine most
Economical Source

Water Containing
Completely Softened
Water Containing Sodium
in Exchange for Hardness
Water Water Softener
Still Discharging
Sodium Wastewater Containing
15 to 20 Minutes Later
of Sodium
Many Gallons Later
Hardness
Water Softener Still
Delivering Completely
Softened Water
Excess Salt Brine
Hardness
Regeneration Almost
Capacity to Soften Hard
Regeneration with Salt
Brine now Necessary
to Recharge Material
Also Removed
Completed Exchange Sodium for
Hardness And Deliver
Water Now Ending
with Sodium
Water Softener
Material Ready to
Softened Water