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The Problems In Water
Hard water scale has plagued mankind since technology's dawn. Hard water is found in varying concentrations throughout the United States. Calcium, magnesium and other hard water minerals impair plumbing and water-based heating and cooling equipment, and inhibit heat transfer by forming an insulating scale in pipes and on heat transfer equipment surfaces. This hard water scale causes energy loss (by insulating heat transfer), reduces heat transfer efficiency by as much as 70%, reduces equipment service life, and costs billions of dollars annually in equipment maintenance, and down time. Efficiency loss increases costs by consuming more energy to heat or cool water and to pump water through scaled plumbing systems and equipment with increased resistance. Traditional treatment requires the use of highly toxic and hazardous chemicals, which are harmful to humans and the environment, and difficult to administer. Chemical treatment requires an extraordinarily large volume of water, and the discharge of that contaminated water into public systems. Billions of dollars are wasted each year on costly chemical treatment, and attempting to transfer heat through hard water scale.

Legionnaire's Disease
Water-borne biological contaminants such as bacteria (including Legionella Pneumophila) and algae occur unavoidably in heating and cooling systems and require elimination. Algae and Bacteria can lead to system fouling and health hazards. Legionella poses a dramatic health and public liability risk (thousands of deaths per year from Legionnaire's disease) if not properly controlled. Historically, Legionella has also been addressed with toxic chemicals. Chemicals are a temporary "band-aid", and do not eliminate the biological threat.

The Problem In Oil Flow
Pumping crude oil through flow lines causes the accumulation of paraffin in production tubing and on pump rods, which impairs or blocks the oil flow both above and below ground. This paraffin buildup must be removed to clear the lines. Traditional treatment methods include hot water or oil injection, solvents, steam, microbes, or mechanical removal. All are expensive, polluting, toxic, dangerous to personnel, and require down time causing lost production. Government regulations make it increasingly difficult and expensive for oil well operators to control this problem.

The Problem In Diesel Fuel
Burning diesel fuel produces carbon particulate emissions, which pollute the environment. Hydrocarbon emissions are a major worldwide problem. Major cities are heavily polluted by vehicle emissions. Truck owners and operators must comply with burdensome government regulations mandating the reduction of emissions and the increase of fuel economy. Many companies have attempted to reduce diesel engine particulate pollution. Some companies have produced fuel additives and met with marginal success, but normally with an accompanying loss of fuel efficiency (i.e., higher fuel consumption), increased corrosion of internal engine components, and increased operating costs. Engine manufacturers have suffered the same trade off between reduced pollution, reduced performance, and increased fuel consumption.

ECS' magnetic units add nothing to and remove nothing from the fluid, but rather physically restructure the fluid molecules and hardness ions. The result is the prevention of the formation of damaging hard water scale. When magnetic fluid treatment units are used in oil wells, paraffin formation is reduced or eliminated.

After magnetic treatment water does not, when subjected to a heat transfer process, produce a hard scale within any portion of the heat transfer apparatus or piping, but rather a loose sludge, which settles for easy removal or flushing without toxic chemical treatment. Magnetically treated water is used in boilers and to increase the life of pipes in the oil, coal and mining industries, since it sharply reduces corrosion and deposition of organic compounds (such as paraffin) in pipes. Magnetically treated water has great practical merit, such as elimination of scale due to high temperature, control of incrustation on equipment, reduction of salt deposits in piping systems, intensification of disinfectants, and acceleration of reagent diffusion.

ECS' computer-assisted product designs have addressed all known critical design factors (e.g., linear velocity through the unit, magnet position and intensity), and provide the most technologically advanced and efficient fluid treatment systems available. Magnetic fluid treatment products, when properly designed and installed, prevent the accumulation of scale. ECS' treatment methodology has succeeded in thousands of installations worldwide with great economic benefit for users, and is recognized and used by the U.S. Government. ECS has received worldwide testimony from dozens of companies as to the successful installation and effectiveness of its products. The observed results are undeniable.