With a limescale protection device, existing limescale deposits are reversed and old layers of limescale are removed from the drinking water pipes.
This effect improves the quality of drinking water and extends the service life of existing pipes.
Find out more about this topic in our blog post.
In comparison: A conventional descaling system with salt (ion exchanger) is unable to remove existing limescale deposits.
With an ion exchanger, the build-up of the limescale layer is slowed down, but it continues until the drinking water pipe is completely blocked.
This means that decalcification does not take place.
Descaling pipes – how it works
The mechanism for breaking down old lime incrustations is based on the fact that the resulting lime layer is not homogeneous, but consists of a large number of crystal layers that grow together.
When these layers collide, boundaries are formed that do not match each other in terms of their structure.
Due to the potential difference between the different materials, the induced electromagnetic fields cause forces that affect these transition structures and dissolve them.
In the long term, this causes cracks to form at the transitions between these crystal layers, weakening their hold and causing entire lime crystals to be dissolved and washed away with the water – until the pipes are completely decalcified.
Continuous descaling until complete removal
Particularly in the first six months after commissioning, increased residues of the younger or weaker crystal layers can be observed, which can occasionally accumulate in the strainers of the taps.
This process then stabilizes and takes about the same amount of time to completely break down as the original time required to build up the incrustations.
