Filling the water tank at home
We used to live where we had city water. We have since moved and now draw our water for our home from a lake. It is perfectly safe and clean, however, some sediment might get through and there can be ...
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agesilaus wrote:
"stationary engineer", heh I was trained as a machinist mate in the USN which is the equivalent and went to Reactor Operator and Engineering Lab Tech before going back to school post Navy. I also worked in a utility with 2200 psi boilers. And boiler water has all sorts of boiler treatment chemicals in it, phosphates, probably some organics like morpholine or cyclohexylamine and so on depending on the unit pressure. Now feedwater is pure until you load it up with chemicals.
Yes you need to be concerned with what but what I would put into a boiler or reactor is not what I would drink...heh. Admiral Rickover picked up a beacker of water of some kind and drank it down, on TV, claiming it was reactor water. LOL what a liar, the barium or Lithium Hydroxide might have produced some gastrointestinal fireworks plus the stuff is mildly radioactive.
In non glow-in-the-dark boilers, I would not put the water in my tap into them. I would also not drink boiler water.
My concern still is whether the sediment build up should be a concern. I usually only drain the tank to winterize.
