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Who is the training intended for?

- Master's or postgraduate students who would like to expand their theses using the advanced concepts of the course;

- Companies and professionals working in the area of ​​water treatment that have not yet found practical and complete training in the area;

- For engineers and technicians who intend to dimension and design ion exchange softening systems for the treatment of drinking or industrial water;

- Companies and professionals working in the area of ​​water treatment that have not yet found practical and complete training in the area;

- Those who have difficulty using the sizing applications provided by resin suppliers;

- Those who already have a softening or demineralization system and don't know why it doesn't work properly;

- Companies that use steam boilers and heaters in their processes and would like to reduce the consumption of chemical products and increase equipment safety. ​

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ION EXCHANGE RESINS TRAINING

Table of contents

CHAPTER 1. BASIC CONCEPTS

1 – Introduction/Historic – Part I 4:50

2 – Introduction/Historic – Part II 4:29

3 – Resins physical aspects 7:24

4 – Chemical structure 5:17

5 – Milliequivalent-gram concept 4:43

6 – Water hardness 5:18

7 – Water alkalinity 4:24

8 – What to analyze in the water? 7:57

9 – Types of resins 6:39

10 – Total Resins capacity 4:57

11 – Resin datasheet interpretation – Part I 5:41

12 – Resin datasheet interpretation – Part II 4:55

CHAPTER 2. ADVANCED CONCEPTS

1 - Case 1 – Calcium removal 7:07

2 - Case 2 – Nitrate removal 7:53

3 – Service Flow Rate SFR / BV/h 2:04

4 – Linear Velocity 4:23

5 – Selectivity 5:28

6 – Separation Factors 5:43

7 – Cross-linking 6:10

8 – Coefficients Alfa and K 6:13

9 – Anderson Proposal Theory Selectivity 4:18

10 – Iron and manganese removal – Part I 5:47

11 – Iron and manganese removal – Part II 4:35

CHAPTER 3. PRO CONCEPTS

1 – Contaminants – Chlorine 5:25

2 – Contaminants – Silica 7:33

3 – Contaminants – Fouling – Part I 6:35

4 – Contaminants - Fouling – Part II 5:13

5 – Channeling 5:30

6 – Resins' Theoretical X Operational Capacity - Part I 5:04

7 - Resins' Theoretical X Operational Capacity - Part II 5:07

8 - Resins' Theoretical X Operational Capacity - Part III 4:31

9 - Resins' Theoretical X Operational Capacity - Part IV 3:31

10 – Dealkalization/WAC resins – Part 1 4:50

11 - Dealkalization/WAC resins – Part 2 6:35

CHAPTER 4. NITRATE REMOVAL

1 – Water containing nitrate 6:43

2 – “Back-of-the-envelope” calculation 3:50

3 - Binary system calculation, Cases 3 and 4 5:27

4 - Multicomponent system calculation, Case 5 5:18

5 - Blend treatment, Case 6 4:41

6 - Amount meq removed, with leakage, Case 7 3:56

7 – Anderson method, Case 8 (without sulfate) 5:19

8 – Anderson method, Case 9 (with sulfate) Part I 5:09

9 - Anderson method, Case 9 (with sulfate) Part II 5:01

10 – Study case (design) , Case 10, Part I 4:32

11– Study case (design) , Case 10, Part II 4:32

12 - Study case (design) , Case 10, Part III 7:31

13 – Study case (design) , Case 10, Part IV 5:59

CHAPTER 5. REGENERATION

1 – Basic concepts 8:46

2 – Water quality for regeneration 4:32

3 – Flow rate, level, backwash and slow rinse time 5:05

4 – Types of regenerants 7:11

5 - Considerations about automatic valves 5:41

6 – A practical example 6:55

7 - Quick rinse vs. Slow rinse 4:00

8 – Regeneration ratio 7:43

9 – More concentrated regenerating agents for demineralization

10 - Yield 6:22

CHAPTER 6. MISCELLANEOUS

1 – Market 6:33

2 – Hydraulics Part I: Head loss - particle influence in pressure loss, 4:44

3 – Hydraulics Part II: Head loss – other approaches 5:05

4 – Hydraulics Part III: Carman-Kozeny - calculus of real case 4:57

5 – Hydraulics Part IV: Tips for avoiding head loss 5:45

6– Mixed Bed, Part 1 – Basic Concepts 6:02

7– Mixed Bed, Part 2 – Resins Commercial Avaliable, MB Operational Capacity 3:32

8 – Mixed Bed, Part 3 – Regeneration I 5:17

9 – Mixed Bed, Part 4 – Regeneration II 4:13

10 – Limitations on softening, Part 1 5:02

11 – Limitations on softening, Part 2 6:47

12 – Units and conversions 7:26

13 – Resin microscopy 5:50

14 – Recommended literature – 3:22

CHAPTER 7. SIZING ION EXCHANGE SYSTEMS USING SOFTWARES

- Introduction

1 – Introduction – 4:02

- Softening, a simplified estimation

2 -Part 1 – Case presentation, water quality, main data, resin type 6:34

3 - Part 2 – Regeneration conditions, product quality, safety factor, hardness leakage, summary report 6:26

4 - Part 3 – Calculation check, comparison between softwares (Wave/Lenntech) and manual estimate 5:21

- Softening, uniform grade resins

5 - Part 1 – Case presentation, water quality, PRSM/Purolite software sizing 6:14

6 - Part 2 – Wave/Dupont software sizing 6:47

7 - Part 3 – Lenntech software checking, comparison between apps 6:00

8 - Part 4 – Hydraulics, tanks, drains, media filter, piping, booster pumps, head loss, instrumentation 5:45

- Alkalinity removal

9 - Part 1 – Case presentation (only dealkalization), LewaPlus software sizing, FRP tank choice 7:31

10 - Part 2 – Review case, now dealkalization plus softening, LewaPlus software sizing 4:42

- Demineralization

11 - Part 1 – Main concepts, types of demin., degassing 4:06

12 - Part 2 – Presentation case, detailed Wave dimensioning, SAC+SBA results 5:51

13 - Part 3 – Other configurations (SAC, SBA, WBA, SBA with or without degasser) 4:14

14 - Part 4 – Comparison between configurations, final results and recomendations 5:15

15 - Software limitations 4:00