Georgeous Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 We are a new distillery in Brooshire, TX and hopefully be pushing out product in November 2017. I need to decide on a water treatment for proofing water. I am very familiar with RO water but lately been hearing quite a bit about Deionized water, Any comments or experience out there to help me make my decision would be greatly appreciated. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indyspirits Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 We considered a small (3 GPM) DI column for post RO but have never had any issue with visible crap in our bottles. If it aint broke don't fix it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgeous Posted September 17, 2017 Author Share Posted September 17, 2017 so you only use RO? what brand and make did you go with Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dehner Distillery Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 We only use ro water for cutting. us water systems. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckeye Hydro Posted November 15, 2017 Share Posted November 15, 2017 Our distillery customers come to us for RO's - have yet to put a DI set up in a distillery. Russ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgeous Posted November 15, 2017 Author Share Posted November 15, 2017 I talked to several distilleries in the last few days one a major craft distillery all using DI and pretty happy with it. Great for proofing no holding tank required, no waste water like with RO, and average 5 gallons per minute on demand. The system I am looking at makes from 2000 - 4000 gallons per recharge of resin depending on the resin you use. Not to mention the cost is better than a comparable RO System Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckeye Hydro Posted November 15, 2017 Share Posted November 15, 2017 Don't forget to factor in the expected usable life span of the resin and the cost of the exchange tank. The higher the TDS of your feedwater, the faster you'll burn through a given volume of mixed bed DI resin. Russ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgeous Posted November 15, 2017 Author Share Posted November 15, 2017 on either system I would throw a scaleblaster http://www.scaleblaster.com/scaleblaster/ in front of it which reduces hard water electronically. This would increase the life of the resin potentially 10X as well as improve RO filter time. I use one at home my water had hardness of 30 and now id 2. Incredible technology with no maintenance required only electricity. Crazy thing is it descales the entire house all my showerheads after a month of use as well as every faucet comes out with crazy force. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgeous Posted November 15, 2017 Author Share Posted November 15, 2017 Buckeye do you sell DI systems as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckeye Hydro Posted November 15, 2017 Share Posted November 15, 2017 Yes sir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgeous Posted November 15, 2017 Author Share Posted November 15, 2017 give me a call just pm'd my number at work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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