Oxygen Scavenger Chemicals for Boiler Feed Water

Oxygen Scavenger
 Oxygen scavengers are mainly used for food and pharmaceutical applications, but can
also be used for any product that needs a low oxygen storage atmosphere.

 Essentially, oxygen scavengers are so named because they preferentially absorb oxygen
within the environment, thus, preventing the oxygen from reacting with the product.

 Many other terms have been used to describe oxygen scavengers, which include the
following: antioxidants, interceptors, controllers, and absorbers.

 Oxygen scavengers or oxygen absorbers are added to enclosed packaging to help

remove or decrease the level of oxygen in the package. They are used to help maintain
product safety and extend shelf life.
Boiler Oxygen Scavenger
 Boiler Oxygen Scavenger is a catalyzed oxygen scavenger in liquid form based on
catalyzed sodium bisulfite. It helps to instantly remove oxygen from the boiler feed
water by converting itself to sodium bisulfate and also reduces alkalinity.

 Boiler water treatment is considered as a part of industrial water treatment that

specially focuses on the removal or chemical modification of substances potentially
posing as a damaging threat to the boiler.
Key Features and Benefits

 Catalyzed Oxygen Scavenger for instant oxygen removal

 Minimizer or eliminates oxidation corrosion (corrosion due to presence of oxygen)

 Concentrated powder product

 Buffers pH

 Imparts power saving

  Corrosion is a major problem in steam systems with high consumption of make-up
water. Fresh water contains dissolved oxygen. Oxygen together with high temperature
is highly corrosive for the carbon steel piping used in steam systems.

 To avoid corrosion the oxygen in the make-up water for saturated steam production
should be removed by using some kind of oxygen absorbers scavenger chemicals and/or
deaeration towers.

Scavenger Chemicals
Some commonly used scavenger chemicals are:

 Sodium Sulfite - common in low and medium pressure systems

 Hydrazine - common in high pressure systems

  Sodium erythorbate

Sodium Sulfite
 Sodium Sulfite is a white crystalline or powder soluble in water. Sodium Sulfite
decomposes on heating and is prepared from sulfur dioxide and sodium carbonate or
caustic soda.

 Sodium Sulfite is an effective scavenger for use in systems operating below 1000 psi. For
pressures above 1000 psi breakdowns may form corrosive Hydrogen Sulfide and/or
Sulfur Dioxide.

 Sodium Sulfite may also increase the amount of dissolved solids and the conductivity of
the boiler water.
Hydrazine
 Hydrazine efficiently eliminates the residual oxygen by reacting with the oxygen forming
water and gaseous nitrogen.

 Since hydrazine is a toxic chemical it must not be used in steam plants supporting food
processing systems.

Sodium Erythorbate
 Erythorbic acid and its sodium salt can replace Sodium sulfite and Hydrazine as oxygen
scavengers.

 Sodium Erythorbate is a non toxic oxygen scavenger that can also be used in food
processing systems.
Adding Scavenger Chemicals
 For best performance the chemical should be added in the storage tank before the feed
tank.

 The efficiency of a scavenger is increased with longer reaction time. Adding directly to
the make-up water feed line is not recommended due to short reaction time.

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