Cooking Applications
Most water-fed cooking equipment uses steam for cooking, proofing, or glazing food products. All have one thing in common, they evaporate water by heating it to produce steam and this process leads to mineral scale formation..
Evaporation – Where do the minerals go?
When water is heated and evaporated, the dissolved minerals must go somewhere. In boiler-based equipment, the dissolved minerals stay behind in the boiler. As steam is produced, the mineral content in the boiler increases along with mineral scale formation. Rule of thumb is that for every hour of a steam boiler operation, the amount of dissolved minerals including hardness in the boiler increases by the amount present in the incoming water. So if there is 200 mg/l of dissolved solids in the make up water, that will increase to 800 mg/l in the boiler after 3 hours of operation. The increase in dissolved minerals in the boiler also increase the rate at which scale will be produced. This is why it is essential that the boiler is drained after 4-6 hours of operation. This one step will decrease water related issues alone by 50% even without any water filtration.
In flash steam (boiler-less) applications, the dissolved minerals will either immediately precipitate out of solution as tiny particles or remain in solution in the water vapor, steam or condensate thus coming in contact with the stainless steel cooking cavity and its components often leading to corrosion.
Poor water quality may cause the following
Mineral scale build up on heat transfer surfaces from hard water
Chlorine/Chloramine induced corrosion in boiler/cooking cavity
Mineral scale build up on level sensing probes
Chloride induced corrosion in cooking cavity
Prima Water TOS
The TOS filter cartridges provide chlorine removal w/ scale control utilizing standard carbon block technology that removes sediment and chlorine from the water supply improving the taste of the water and reducing possible chlorine related corrosion issues.
Each of these filters are encapsulated with the patented ScaleStick® insert plug providing unparalleled mineral scale control.
TOS-30
- Capacity: 30,000 gallons / Flow Rate: 3.40 gpm.
- Sediment/Chlorine Removal
- Corrosion Control & Scale Prevention
- Ice, Coffee, Tea, Steamer
- 3M® Compatibility: HF-60S, HF-65S
TOS-60
- Capacity: 60,000 gallons / Flow Rate: 5.00 gpm.
- Sediment/Chlorine Removal
- Corrosion Control & Scale Prevention
- Ice, Coffee, Combi, Steamer
- 3M® Compatibility: HF-90S, HF-95S
TOSC-60
- Capacity: 60,000 gallons / Flow Rate: 5.00 gpm.
- Sediment/Chloramine Removal
- Corrosion Control & Scale Prevention
- Combi, Steamer
- 3M® Compatibility: HF-90CL, HF-95CL
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