What Is a Water Softener and How Does It Work?
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What is a Water Softener?
A water softener is an appliance that is designed to remove minerals such as calcium and magnesium from hard water through a process called ion exchange. The appliance uses two tanks - one containing cation resin beads that attract positively charged ions (such as calcium), while the other contains anions that attract negatively charged ions (e.g., chloride). Hard water enters the tanks, and the resin beads inside them attract the minerals causing hardness in the water. As a result, softened water then leaves the tank free of impurities.

How Does Water Softener Work?

The main component of any standard water softener system includes three primary parts: A mineral tank (where all hard minerals are removed), control valve (controls when regeneration should occur), and brine tank(where salt is mixed with fresh water for cleaning).

When hard water comes into contact with the mineral tank's resin beads filled with positive sodium or potassium ions, they swap places with calcium and magnesium ions present in the hard water.

As these minerals stick to ion exchange resins like sodium or potassium, they separate from hardwater preventing further complications. 

Eventually, this results in softer, cleaner drinking water that won't leave deposits everywhere it goes within pipes/fittings around your home.

The control valve becomes an essential part because only when it 'knows' there are enough minerals on site does it signal when regeneration should begin. After you have used up all possible sodium or potassium ions for exchanger resin, the valve reverses its operation to remove all minerals from your brine tank. Regeneration happens, salts absorbed from hard water are then flushed down a drain.


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