Water Treatment Ecommerce Site Open For Business

Our new E-commerce Web Site for water treatment, http://reskem.ecolab.com is ready to accept orders for many of the replacement parts you need for your industrial water treatment system!  As a Guest user, you will have access to all of the parts at list price.  You can become a Registered User by contacting Res-Kem. In future posts, I will explain the Salesforce App we use called CloudCraze to make the storefront work!

Front Page of Ecommerce Site

One of the advanced features on our site are our "Interactive Drawings" for  the Pentair Fleck 2750, 2850, 2850S, 2900, 3150, 3900, 5600, 9000, 9100, and 9500 valves. You select the correct part clicking on the drawing and then putting it into your cart.  Pentair Fleck valves are very complex and the drawings make it easier to select the correct parts.

Interactive Drawing for Pentair Fleck 2750 Valve

 Current Products on Ecommerce Site:

• All Pentair Fleck Valves & Parts
• All Aquamatic Controllers, Valve Nests, Valves & Parts
• Over 200 Cartridge Filters from multiple manufacturers
• Sample Coolers
• Resin Traps  

Coming soon, we will be adding:

• UV Bulbs, Sleeves and other replacement parts
• Filter Housings
• More Filter Manufacturers
• Filter Media
• Ion Exchange Resins
• Softeners, Carbon Filters, Multi-media Filters and Sand Filters up to 48" in diameter
• ...and more

Advantages of Becoming a Registered User:

• Access your negotiated pricing anywhere using any web connected phone, tablet, or computer
• Order using a purchase order, P-card, or credit card
• View your order history and generate purchase records
• Reorder a previous purchase
• Save carts with frequently ordered part bundles, e.g. weekly, monthly, or annual purchases
• Order for and ship to multiple locations
• Have a single spare parts list and source for all of your water treatment equipment  

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Iron and Manganese Removal Filter Shipped to Westchester County HQ

Res-Kem recently shipped a 52 gpm dual tank greensand filter to a Westchester County New York corporate headquarters campus.  This filter uses greensand to remove dissolved and precipitated iron and manganese from the water coming from the local public water system.

Dual 36" Greensand Filters with
Bray 31 Valves and Bray Series 93 Pneumatic Actuators

Water Problem:

At a Westchester County corporate headquarters campus, about 4 to 5 times a year, our customer experiences water quality and quantity problems. The campus receives its water from a local public water supplier. High levels of iron and manganese are present within the public water distribution system, and peak flow events such as hydrant flushing or firefighting activities have caused brown water to be drawn into their water system. What exacerbates the problem is the campus is at the end of the water distribution system without looping.

Therefore, iron and manganese laden sediment accumulates the piping and is drawn into the campus drinking water system. Res-Kem designed and constructed a filtration system to remove iron and manganese from the drinking water, as well as a storage tank. The volume of the tank is 150,000 gallons which provides two days of storage in the event of a water emergency with the water supply.


System Solution:

Inlet Iron and Manganese:	Average Inlet Iron 0.22 mg/l Average Inlet Manganese 0.11 mg/ml
Flow Operating Conditions:	Typical: 52 gpm typical
System Configuration:	Dual Parallel 36" diameter ASME Code, carbon steel tanks Epoxy Lined, NSF 61 certified Schedule 80 PVC face piping Differential Pressure Switch initiated backwash Greensand Plus filtration media
Control Valves:	Bray Series 31 valves with Bray Series 93 actuators
System Operation:	Differential Pressure Switch initiates backwash cycle
Added Features:	Domestic water booster pumping system brings filtered water backwash to system Sodium Hypochlorite (NaOCL) serves as the chemical oxidant for the removal of iron and manganese in the filtration system. The NaOCL will be injected immediately upstream on the system influent piping header. Chemical dose will flow paced based from the signal from the filtration systems influent flow meter.

For Additional Information:
Technical bulletin on Res-Kem's Greensand/Greensand Plus filters
Online catalog for Greensand Filter Systems
Technical bulletin on Greensand Plus filtration media for iron and manganese removal

Aquamatic Valve Page Added

A separate web page, http://www.reskem.com/pages/aquamatic-valve-controls.php, was added to the Res-Kem website dedicated to AquaMatic diaphragm valves, AquaMatic Stagers and Controllers. So the page is easier to find, Res-Kem also improved the navigation of our website.

On the web page we have AquaMatic ordering guides, technical drawings of these Diaphragm valves and the Stager/Controls. The stager/controls are used to operate indutrial water softeners, multi-media filters, sand filters, carbon filters, etc. We also videos explaining how to determine what valve you have and how to repair them are posted.

Stainless Steel Condensate Polisher with Bray Valves

Res-Kem just completed another condensate polisher manufactured in stainless steel. This system uses our standard design with optional butterfly valves.


The vessel is manufactured from 304L stainless steel with 100 psi ASME code construction. Pipe assemblies are welded Schedule 10 304L stainless steel piping. This single unit condensate polisher has an added feature of automatic bypass. The customer required our optional Bray butterfly valve design.

The actuators are air open/spring return so the valves can work with the GE Aquamatic 962 series stager controller.

Regeneration is initiated by either:

• Gallon throughput


• High differential pressure


• Timeclock

Additional Information:
Condensate Polisher Product Bulletin
The white paper, "Condensate Polisher Savings of 23% Realized Through Value Engineering", shows how a value engineering team yielded the best condensate polishing system for the money.

Condensate Polishers Shipped for Local University

Last month, Res-Kem shipped a quadruple condensate polisher system to a local university. The condensate polishers are used to treat the water in the condensate loop, reducing water treatment chemical usage and reducing heat waste from excessive blowdown.
The system is comprised of four individual ASME-code stainless steel tanks with stainless steel internals, face piping, and Aquamatic valves. All external piping was a combination of welded and flanged stainless steel. Each system has an Aquamatic 962 controller to operate the valves during the backwash and regeneration cycle. The regeneration and backwash cycles are initiated by a differential pressure switch.

The local Res-Kem representative sold and installed the system at the university. The new system replaced a twin condensate polisher that had reached the end of its life.

The design flow rate is: 450 gpm
The peak flow rate is: 600 gpm
As stated above, the regeneration is initiated by a DP Switch.


The qualification process by the university was very rigorous. First university personnel visited out manufacturing facility in Aston, PA to see a similar system being built in our assembly facility. Afterwards, university personnel visited a local customer with a water softener and water dealkalizer. After we were qualified, our engineers worked with the site personnel to modify our standard design to fit the site's requirements.

Aquamatic Valve & Control Lines Discontinued

In addition to the announcement of the A200 series impulse control stager being discontinued, the letter from Pentair has other Aquamatic discontinuations. The following Aquamatic Valve & Control Lines will be discontinued after March 13, 2009. Also, certain Aquamatic Valve & Control options will be discontinued after March 13, 2009. Orders can be placed until March 2, 2009. Contact Res-Kem if you need help finding a potential replacement.

Discontinued Aquamatic Valve & Control Lines:
Product Family: V82 Series
Product Type: Diaphragm valves
Description: High pressure brass line
Potential Replacement: V46 Series

Product Family:V44 Series
Product Type: Diaphragm valves
Description: Iron and brass isolated bonnet line
Potential Replacement: V42 Series, K55 Series

Product Family: 59 Series
Product Type: Stager
Description: 16 port brass stager line
Potential Replacement: 58 Series

Product Family: 96 Series
Product Type: Stager
Description: 8 port high pressure line

Discontinued Aquamatic Valve & Control Options:
Description: Drill and tap Options 5(all four bosses) and 7 (bosses #1 and #3) on K52 Series and K53 Series valves
Potential Replacement: Drill and tap Options 1-4, 6

Description: FKM (Viton) diaphragm on K53 Series
Potential Replacement: Buna-N diaphragm: K52 series FKM diaphragm

A200 Stager Control from Aquamatic Discontinued

Soon after we completed changes to our website, discussed in our previous blog post, a discontinuation notice was Res-Kem just received in the mail from Aquamatic about the A200 Stager Control. After March 13, 2009 the controller, also called an A200 Impluse Stager Control, will no longer be available. The reason given was "despite their lengthy time on the market, (these products) have experienced low demand and declining sales in recent years. As a result, Pentair is making the difficult decision to eliminate these lines so it may focus on growing its core Aquamatic Valve and Control business."

Possible Solution:
A potential replacement could be the 962 Stager Control series from Aquamatic. If you contact Res-Kem we can help you determine if it will work for your application and how it may need to be configured to work.

Aquamatic Stager Controls Information for GE/Osmonics

Res-Kem added a significant amount of information on Aquamatic Stager Controls to our website including Product Specifications, Manuals and Ordering Guides. We wanted to make the information more easily accessible for our customers and others who use Aquamatic stager controls in their water treatment equipment.

Res-Kem uses Aquamatic Stager Controls for many of the systems we manufacture. Stager controls are used to automatically control softeners, dealkalizers, sand filters, multi-media filters, cation and anion deionizers. Also, we use these same stager controls, with a valve nest, to retrofit old Permutit, and Brunermatic multiport valves. Also, given our system expertise, we service these units in the field.

Aquamatic Stager Controls:

Res-Kem uses Aquamatic Stager Controls for many of the systems we manufacture. As the name implies, it is comprised of an Aquamatic Stager and an Aquamatic Control. Res-Kem uses Aquamatic valves with a variety of stager control combinations to automate the operation and/or regeneration of valve nest type water softeners and filters. Aquamatic Stager Controls are used to automatically control softeners, dealkalizers, sand filters, multi-media filters, cation and anion deionizers. These same stager controls can be used with virtually any other valve manufacturer with pneumatic actuated valves ONLY if their actuators are air/spring. These manufacturers include Keystone, Bray, George Fisher +GF+, Hayward, and Asahi. Also, we use these same stager controls, with a valve nest, to retrofit old Permutit, and Brunermatic multiport valves.

Aquamatic 962 Stager Controls:
The AquaMatic 962 stager controls combine an AquaMatic stager with an Autotrol 962 series electronic control, mounted and prewired in a NEMA-rated enclosure. When combined with a flow meter, the series 962 electronic controls provide sophisticated, demand-based water conditioning by monitoring the amount of water used. Time-based and/or external signal initiation is also available as a standard feature.

Aquamatic A100 Stager Controls:
This series of AquaMatic controls combines an electromechanical timer with a stager. The A100 series initiates a regeneration based on a time set on the built-in time clock.

Aquamatic A200 Stager Controls:
This series of AquaMatic controls combines an electromechanical timer with a stager. The A200 series initiates a regeneration when a signal is received from a water meter, sensor, pressure differential switch, push button or other remote device.

Aquamatic 7000A Programmable Regeneration Controller (DISCONTINUED):
These units are no longer sold. Through some careful engineering, the 7000A controller can be replaced with a Aquamatic 962 Stager Control. The Aquamatic 7000A was an electronic programmable regeneration designed to control the regeneration of filters and ion exchange processes. The 7000A was used in combination with an Aquamatic 48 Series Stager, Aquamatic 51 Series Stager, or Aquamatic 58 Series Stager.

Aquamatic Stager:

Added are product specifications on Aquamatic Stagers. A stager is a motor-driven rotary multiport pilot valve, which is used to control a set of individual diaphragm valves in a predefined sequence.

There are five stager designs available:

Aquamatic Series 48 brass stager with six ports. The 48 stager can control typical softener or filter systems as well as sequential backwash filters.

Aquamatic Series 51 brass stagers with eight ports. Used for more complex systems such as non-standard softeners, twin alternating softeners or filters.

Aquamatic Series 96 brass stagers with eight ports. Used for more complex systems such as non-standard softeners, twin alternating softeners or filters.
The 96 stager design is similar to that of the 51, but is rated for 250 psi (17 bar) and used for high pressure systems.

Aquamatic Series 58 PVC stager with sixteen ports. Used for more complex systems such as non-standard softeners, twin alternating softeners or filters.

Aquamatic Series 59 brass stager with sixteen ports. Used for more complex systems such as non-standard softeners, twin alternating softeners or filters.

Given our expertise building systems with Aquamatic Stager Controls, we can help you select the correct parts, select/troubleshoot stager controls or service stager in the field.