Hello, im the owner of a pool cleaning service in business for over 15 years now in Florida. With today's economy and prices rising drastically all the time I'm exploring ways to reduce my costs. I've had a thought for awhile now and just wanted to get others input before I try an experiment to see if it would work.
Sodium hypochlorite, aka chlorine is one of my biggest expenses as I go through about 120 gallons every week, during season anyways. I'm curious if I could use a 40k salt generator system and a 125 gallon tank to make chlorine in high enough concentration to use for my pools instead of buying it from a distributor.
My thought is to take the 125 gallon tank and plum in a 3/4 hp pool pump, install a 40k salt system, install a filter (most likely a hayward c900 as I have used units), add the water and salt necessary to achieve proper salt level, add stabilizer so the chlorine level will hold, and run the salt generator at 100% all week, then just use that to fill my empty chlorine jugs.
I do not know what level or % of chlorine this would actually produce, therfore I have no idea if it would actually work as a replacement for distributor bought chlorine. However even if I had to use double the amount (due to lower %) in my pools, in the long run it would save me a great deal on $.
Another concern I have would be the amount of salt added to each chlorine pool as the generated chlorine would have a high salt level in it. Yes all chlorine has salt in it, but much lower levels than what I would be making. Only way I know to lower the salt level would be to use a reverse osmosis filter, but normally those don't work well with high chlorine levels. Distillation isn't an option due to the hazards it could cause. I am in Florida so lots of rain and leaks in pools would help reduce salt levels, just not sure if it would be enough.
Any thoughts you may have on this would be appreciated.
Sodium hypochlorite, aka chlorine is one of my biggest expenses as I go through about 120 gallons every week, during season anyways. I'm curious if I could use a 40k salt generator system and a 125 gallon tank to make chlorine in high enough concentration to use for my pools instead of buying it from a distributor.
My thought is to take the 125 gallon tank and plum in a 3/4 hp pool pump, install a 40k salt system, install a filter (most likely a hayward c900 as I have used units), add the water and salt necessary to achieve proper salt level, add stabilizer so the chlorine level will hold, and run the salt generator at 100% all week, then just use that to fill my empty chlorine jugs.
I do not know what level or % of chlorine this would actually produce, therfore I have no idea if it would actually work as a replacement for distributor bought chlorine. However even if I had to use double the amount (due to lower %) in my pools, in the long run it would save me a great deal on $.
Another concern I have would be the amount of salt added to each chlorine pool as the generated chlorine would have a high salt level in it. Yes all chlorine has salt in it, but much lower levels than what I would be making. Only way I know to lower the salt level would be to use a reverse osmosis filter, but normally those don't work well with high chlorine levels. Distillation isn't an option due to the hazards it could cause. I am in Florida so lots of rain and leaks in pools would help reduce salt levels, just not sure if it would be enough.
Any thoughts you may have on this would be appreciated.
