Features of the Pentek 155321-43 WS-20BB Water Softening Resin Cartridge:
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Pentek 155320-43 WS-20 Water Softening Resin Cartridge
WS-20 Cartridge
WS Series cartridges are designed to allow optimal contact between water and resin surfaces, ensuring maximum ion exchange. The internal expansion pad minimizes channeling, while the post filter eliminates any potential for bypass. Designed for low water usage, these units will easily deliver softened product water through the use of FDA-grade sodium based, non-solvent rinsed softening resin. The cartridge style design provides a convenient solution for delivering softened water to protect sensitive water delivery equipment.
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Features of the Pentek 155319-43 WS-10 Water Softening Cartridge:
WS Series cartridges are designed to allow optimal contact between water and resin surfaces, ensuring maximum ion exchange. The internal expansion pad minimizes channeling, while the post filter eliminates any potential for bypass. Designed for low water usage, these units will easily deliver softened product water through the use of FDA-grade sodium based, non-solvent rinsed softening resin. The cartridge style design provides a convenient solution for delivering softened water to protect sensitive water delivery equipment.
For additional product information, contact FIlterPure at 1-800-942-7873.
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SO-24 System
When you want to reduce scale-forming minerals in your espresso machines, but full size water conditioners are impractical, you can always rely on the Everpure EV9100-94. This 20″ large capacity softening system may be used on water having up to 30 grains per gallon hardness.
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This pretty cool piece of equipment is used for food service and commercial applications. It can give you delicious specialty coffee, wonderfully strong espresso or refreshing, crisp ice tea. This cartridge reduces minerals like calcium and magnesium which cause hard water. It’s like having a mini water softener under your sink. This is ideal for hard water at a flow rate as high as 1/2 gallon per minute. The ion exchange technology is a carbon and resin blend. The cartridge has a psi range of 10-125, as well as, a temperature range of 35 to 100 degrees. The 2,000 grain capacity is ideal for high mineral content and low volume application. What is the proper way to use the 7SO (EV9607-04)? Usually it is a 2 stage setup. The first stage would be a MC2 (EV9612-56) filter. This reduces the chlorine, sediment, taste and odor. The precoat sub-micron technology reduces the dirt and particles as small as 1/2 micron. The 2nd stage is the 7SO, which reduces the hardness. Best operating procedure is to change the cartridge every 6 months just like most other filters. To determine cartridge life, divide total capacity of cartridge by the hardness in grains per gallon (gpg). So for example, 2,000 grains for the 7SO divided by 15 grains of hardness, you would exhaust this cartridge after running approximately 133 gallons of water through it.
You can also change when hardness of treated water increases to more than 3 grains per gallon. Do not exceed recommended flow rate which is 0.5 gallons per minute. Don’t forget to flush the cartridge when you install it or change one out. You do this by running water through it for five minutes at full flow. This should be done no matter what filters you are using. The other great thing about this cartridge is that it fits all existing Everpure heads. No electrical connection is required. So if you have hard water in your foodservice location and want great tasting espresso we would recommend the 7SO. For more information on how we can help you on this system or others like it please call us at 800-942-7873.
“Hard water” is generally defined as that which has a high concentration (>100mg/L) of dissolved salts, like calcium and magnesium, which are absorbed from the earth. This excess of particulates can cause numerous problems for the home and small business owner, such as difficulty in regulating water pH (important for pool and aquarium owners), and scaling/deposit buildup in pipes, boilers, and machinery which makes use of water, such as coffee and espresso makers. The classic tell-tale sign of hard water is difficulty in lathering soap and shampoo. Another such problem is the taste associated with hard water. Water containing mineral contaminants can taste bitter, especially when used to cook or brew fine coffee. When this becomes a concern, many turn to water softening to remove these minerals and make them palatable. Softening, while not a lengthy process, is complex when compared to other purification methods such as reverse osmosis. Water softener cartridges make use of either an all-in-one cartridge such as the Everpure ESO7 or a drop in bowl system such as Everpure’s SO-204 to remove excess minerals from your water. With the ESO 7, not only is water softened, but dirt and particles are removed as well. The ESO 7’s unique three-stage blending cartridge provides softened, buffered, and precoat filtered water, while the cartridge’s ion exchange resin with buffering capabilities and high-capacity coconut carbon filtered water bypass make it the perfect choice for specialty coffee, espresso, and ice tea applications. Systems such SO-204 combine small size and ease of use with commercial application capability. Measuring just 26”x5.125”x5.25”, the SO-204’s replacement cartridges are sized to fit under any counter or mounted on the wall behind the coffee or espresso machines. While relatively small, the SO-204 is designed to handle water having up to 30 grains per gallon (500mg/L) – 5 times the definition of “hard” water. Moreover, the filters are easy to change. Not only do replacement cartridges not require a housing wrench to be changed, that is, they can be hand-tightened, but cartridges require only one minute of flushing. Many high-end coffee and espresso machines require a water softener to ensure the quality of the coffee is preserved through the brewing process and warranty purposes. If you think you would like to make use of a water softening cartridge in either your home or business, contact Filter Pure Systems, Inc. at 1-800-942-7873 today.
April 1, 2022
Dear Valued Pentair Partner,
The global manufacturing environment for Pentair, and other industrial corporations, remains extraordinarily challenging. Ongoing inflationary pressures, supply scarcities, labor constraints, and escalating energy and transportation costs continue to negatively impact your business and ours, as well as the economy at large.
We have minimized the impacts of rising economic pressures and remain committed to providing you, our valued customer, with exceptional products, services, and support at competitive prices. To continue to do so, we are implementing an 8% energy and transportation surcharge on all valves, tanks, filtration, and softening products. This surcharge is incremental to current pricing, and is effective on all orders shipped on or after April 8, 2022.
Given the extreme volatility of the energy market, we will continue monitoring this surcharge, and will communicate any subsequent changes based on the cost trends associated with manufacturing Pentair products.
We understand our businesses are facing unprecedented economic challenges. You are an important part of our promise to make the most of life’s essential resources. Thank you for your continued support of Pentair brands and products amid these turbulent economic times. Your business remains vitally important to us!
Best Regards,
John Ryan
Global Sales Director
Residential & Commercial Filtration Systems
November 29, 2021
Dear Valued Pentair Partner,
Many industrial manufacturers continue to face unprecedented inflationary pressures, supply scarcities, labor constraints, and escalating transportation costs. These extraordinary circumstances have affected the global business environment and remain a concern as we approach the coming year.
Pentair has endeavored to minimize the impact of these changes and remains committed to providing you, our valued customer, with exceptional products, services and support. Nevertheless, as we approach 2022, it will be necessary to implement further pricing actions to counteract ongoing material shortages, logistical challenges and inflation.
As a result, we are implementing a 10% price increase on new orders for valves, tanks, filtration and softening products effective December 13, 2021. Additionally, a surcharge of 10% will be applied retroactively to any order that has not shipped prior to December 13, 2021, with the exception of past due orders that had an acknowledged ship date prior to November 29, 2021.
To avoid any payment issues please update your system to include the surcharge on all open POs and new orders with the updated pricing. Please consult with your Pentair sales representative regarding specific pricing questions and work with your customer service representative to make any changes to existing orders.
These are unquestionably challenging times for both industry and society as a whole. Together, we will continue to navigate through the inflationary turbulence. Thank you for your continued support of Pentair brands and products amidst these economic challenges.
Your business remains vitally important to us!
Sincerely,
John Ryan
Global Sales Director
Residential & Commercial Filtration Systems
For more information please contact us at 800-942-7873 or email us at info@filterpure.com.
| November 29, 2021 Dear Valued Pentair Partner, Many industrial manufacturers continue to face unprecedented inflationary pressures, supply scarcities, labor constraints, and escalating transportation costs. These extraordinary circumstances have affected the global business environment and remain a concern as we approach the coming year. Pentair has endeavored to minimize the impact of these changes and remains committed to providing you, our valued customer, with exceptional products, services and support. Nevertheless, as we approach 2022, it will be necessary to implement further pricing actions to counteract ongoing material shortages, logistical challenges and inflation. As a result, we are implementing a 10% price increase on new orders for valves, tanks, filtration and softening products effective December 13, 2021. Additionally, a surcharge of 10% will be applied retroactively to any order that has not shipped prior to December 13, 2021, with the exception of past due orders that had an acknowledged ship date prior to November 29, 2021. To avoid any payment issues please update your system to include the surcharge on all open POs and new orders with the updated pricing. Please consult with your Pentair sales representative regarding specific pricing questions and work with your customer service representative to make any changes to existing orders. These are unquestionably challenging times for both industry and society as a whole. Together, we will continue to navigate through the inflationary turbulence. Thank you for your continued support of Pentair brands and products amidst these economic challenges. Your business remains vitally important to us! Sincerely, John Ryan Global Sales Director Residential & Commercial Filtration Systems |
The 2019 holiday coffee season is almost here and august 27th my be the day again this year! PSL’s, ( Pumpkin Spiced Latte) and all things pumpkin spice ushered in an early fall coffee season in 2018 when Starbuck’s began serving it on August 27th. Dunkin has already announced that their Pumpkin line up will return to the menu on August 21. Dunkin’s Pumpkin Flavored Coffee, K-Cup Pods, pumpkin doughnut, muffins and Munchkins donut holes are returning, along with the new Cinnamon Sugar Pumpkin Signature Latte, Apple Cider Donut and Munchkins. Pumpkin flavor swirl can be added to hot, iced coffee, Cold Brew, espresso drinks, frozen coffee and frozen chocolate. Every year America’s insatiable desire for all things pumpkin spice has the fall coffee season starting earlier. Starbucks has been debuting the Pumpkin Spice Latte around Labor Day since 2003, selling over 200 million cups of the game-changing drink since. But the coffee chain has been known to rile up the PSL cult by offering opportunities for fans to get the drink early, usually the last week of August. In the last few years, however, pumpkin spice demand has reached a fever pitch. Data from Nielsen shows that total sales of pumpkin-flavored foods in the U.S. grew almost 80 percent between 2011 and 2015, to over $360 million in 2015. These hot seasonal espresso beverages have proven to increase sales and have succeeded for all of these chains and a lot of independent operators too by drawing in customers early and often during the holiday season. People don’t want to miss out on limited time seasonal offers and for a lot of us these drinks are now part of our memories of enjoying and celebrating the holiday season and they all have one major ingredient in common, water! Espresso is 85-96% water and that water is extremely important to delivering not only a great shot of espresso but not damaging a very expensive espresso machine. Chlorine can alter the aroma and increases acidity. It also bonds with organics creating an earthy or moldy overtone to the flavor. TDS, (total dissolved solids), can cause poor extraction of the grounds, under extraction leads to weak and sour drinks and over extraction leads to bitterness so taking care to treat coffee and espresso beverage water is extremely important. Regardless of which one is your favorite, operators know and work diligently to make sure that all of these beverages begin with a great shot of espresso. Everpure continues to lead the Industry in taking care of coffee and espresso water quality by working directly with Specialty Coffee Operators and Espresso Equipment Manufactures.
From the ESO and Claris cartridge systems delivering filtered softened water through salt less ion exchange to the blended reverse osmosis line of MRS, Mineral Reduction Systems, we have a solution to turn the water operators are dealing with into the engineered water they need to deliver the espresso beverage that meets their specifications. For espresso, that means a softer water that also protects the equipment from both hard water scale and corrosion from chloride. For a superior quality extraction of coffee solids the Statistics & Standards Committee of the Specialty Coffee Association of America has determined the following standards for the water used to brew specialty coffee.
Characteristic Target Acceptable Range;
Odor 1 Clean / Fresh, Odor free
Color 2 Clear color
Total Chlorine O mg/L
TDS 3 150 mg/L 75 – 250 mg/L
Calcium Hardness 4 grains or 68 mg/L 1 – 5 grains or 17 mg/L – 85 mg/L
Total Alkalinity 40 mg/L At or near 40 mg/L
pH 7.0 6.5 to 7.5
Sodium 10 mg/L At or near 10 mg/L
1 Odor is based on sensory olfactory determination
2 Color is based on sensory visual determination
3 TDS measured based on a 4-4-2 conversion
The Target is the most desirable point in the Acceptable Range, although falling within the range is considered meeting the standard. These variances are in place to take into consideration real world circumstances, and the target gives the optimum measurement of each characteristic to strive for. For an operator then, the place to begin is with a POE, point of entry standard Everpure water test, DEV7013-73. This test includes the water bottle and lab analysis of 30 contaminants and characteristics. The test usually takes from 7 to 10 days to analyze at the laboratory located in Chicago. In order to provide both a superior quality shot of espresso and protect the equipment from scaling and/or corrosion the water being used to feed the espresso machine needs to be within the manufacturers published range. La Marzocco publishes the following water quality specification for the warranty of there espresso machines;
For example if your water analysis at your location indicates hardness of 257 ppm and chlorides of over 308.8 ppm youw ould be way out of range to meet the warranty for La Marzocco. So the recommendation would be an Everpure MRS Blended reverse osmosis system to actually take the mineral and chloride out of the water and deliver water with the correct specification of both TDS, total disolved solids between 90ppm and 150ppm and chlorides of less than 3o ppm in order to protect the machine from corrosion. The size of the MRS unit is determined according to the amount of beverage water that will be needed at peak operating time within the facility. For example the MRS600HEII will make 600 gallons of water every 24 hours or 25 gph, (gallons per hour). The MRS350Bl will make 350 gallons every 24 hours or 14.58 gph, (gallons per hour). Not to worry though just call us and we will take care of sizing the equipment you need for your equipment.
Everpure Espresso Solutions also include;
The ESO7, EV9607-25 (ESO stands for Espresso, the 7 just means the size of the filter cartridge) is a three-in-one system providing filtration, scale prevention and buffering/softening of the water. The water retains enough mineral to bring out the espresso flavors. The ESO7 will take care of up to 5,300 grains of hardness or at 8 grains of hardness will generate 511 gallons of espresso before it will need to be changed.
The Claris XXL, EV4339-14, unit will give you the same great 3 in 1 filter but also give you the ability to generate 2,910 gallons of espresso, ( at 10 grains of hardness) but also has an adjustable DUOBLEND™ bypass valve that allows for a more precise adjustment of carbonate hardness. Either system is quick to install, easy to handle and fast to service.
The Claris Prime EV4339-86 Features a 6-stage filtration process, protects equipment from scale and mineral-induced corrosion in areas with high TDS, chloride (Cl-) and sulphate (SO4) content in the feed water.
Everpure has developed an entire series of Blended MRS, Mineral Reduction System Reverse Osmosis units. From the MRS20, (20 stands for 20 gallons made per day), EV9797-, up to the MRS600HEII, (600 gallons made per day), EV9970-54. One of the most popular for the coffee and espresso application is the EV99-17. Note that all of these solutions require a storage tank.
These systems can be sized to fit one piece of equipment or all of the coffee, espresso, beverage, etc..equipment that you are using to insure that the water you are using will protect your equipment from whatever changes occur within your water supply and provide the perfect water and ice for your beverages. Not sure of what you need to do to take care of your water? Give us a call at 800-942-7873 or email us at info@filterpure.com
