Bulk Salt Silo/Lixator Tank Automatic Production Salt Brine Equipment

Above Ground Bulk Salt Storage and Distribution Silo – Lixator

Industrial Water Solutions offers the most efficient bulk brine systems in the market. Our bulk brine systems have a proven track record of delivering excellent results and reliability in demanding environments. These bulk brine systems will offer greater safety and significant ongoing cost savings. These bulk brine/lixator systems are used with many types of processes including those that rely upon industrial water softeners.

If you aren’t sure which system is right for you, or you have questions about your current brining systems, we offer engineering site visits to help consult you to solve your salt briner problems. Our automatic salt brine maker and salt storage system is complete with level controls and is made from high-end fiberglass reinforced plastic (FRP). We also offer underground bulk brine systems and can consult on which option works best for your facility. Pair a bulk salt brine-making tank with a specially engineered brine reclamation system to cut salt to the drain by up to 75%!

These automatic production salt brine systems are used with industrial water softeners, and are especially ideal for large, industrial water softeners that support ultra-pure water systems including:

• Reverse Osmosis Systems
• Liqui-Cel O2 & CO2 Removal Systems
• Twin Bed and Mixed Bed Deionization (DI) Water Systems
• Liqui-Flux Ultrafiltration Systems
• Industrial Iron, Carbon, Multi-layer & MID Filters

With a single source for all briner components, Industrial Water Solutions offers you economy and dependability in your brining system. As our customers will attest, we have the capability to customize salt brine systems to fit particular requirements for a given installation. Our bulk salt brine systems are manufactured to current ASTM standards, using USDA-approved resins, and are conditioned to meet food-grade sanitary guidelines.  An exclusive Two (2)-Year Warranty backs our ISO 9001 quality standards and our 30+ years of experience.

We also offer double-walled underground bulk brine and salt tank systems.

Experience brinemaking consistency with Industrial Water Solutions Brine System

• Downflow Brinemaking
• Maintenance-Free Service
• Uniform Distribution
• Hassle-free Brine Collection
• Rapid Loading without the Dust
• Easy Clean Out
• Effective Liquid Level Control System
• Bryneer™ Options
• Specifications
• ANSI/NSF 61 Certification

Uniform Distribution

In many commercial brinemakers, inlet water is not distributed evenly. Eventually, this results in the formation of salt pillars in the tank, which can collapse and damage the vessel. This problem is eliminated in the by use of a schedule 80 PVC ring induction header around the inside circumference of the tank.  The ring is installed at a three-foot height to spray water evenly around the base of the salt mass, resulting in the desirable plug or mass flow.

Downflow Brinemaking

The downflow brining principle ensures consistent brine saturation. As influent water rises, higher density brine sinks. Sludge from rock and solar salt is concentrated at the bottom of the system where it can be periodically removed.

Maintenance-Free Service

Our tough, damage-resistant fiberglass reinforced plastic shell is constructed to withstand many years of brinemaking maintenance-free.

Rapid Loading without the Dust

A pneumatic loading and air venting system is designed for rapid loading, easy maintenance and minimum dust emissions. The 4″ ID fill pipe is fabricated from 304 stainless steel and mounted for center fill using a long radius turn to minimize particle attrition and dust. The pipe is fitted with an aluminum camlock coupling and cap that adapts to a P/D truck hose connection. A threaded nipple on the pipe may be fitted with a water hose to inject water during truck unloading to wet the conveyed salt, resulting in minimized dust emission.

Hassle-Free Brine Collection

A collector on the bottom of the tank collects brine evenly over the entire surface area of the vessel by infiltration through 4″ ID slotted PVC pipe feeding a center mounted FRP plenum. It filters undissolved salt crystals and insolubles from effluent saturated brine. An outlet pipe draws brine from the plenum through a flanged and gussetted nozzle in the vessel wall. When fine vacuum granulated salt is used, the collectors are covered with a quartz rock filter bed to ensure that fine salt crystals do not pass through the slotted PVC pipe. Replacement of such a filter bed should never be necessary due to the insignificant insolubles content of vacuum salt.

Onveying air is exhausted through an 8″ gooseneck vent at the top of the vessel. A FRP extension mounted to the tank wall, with a salt dust bag at serviceable height, facilitates cleaning. Should the bag become plugged during filling, a 24″ weighted manway on the top will open to relieve pressure and prevent tank damage.

Easy Clean Out

All of Industrial Water Solutions’s Brine Systems are fitted with a 24” diameter side-mounted, leak-proof manway near the base for convenient clean-out access.  This port is used for periodic sludge clean-outs, which are required when rock and solar salt are used.  All collection and outlet internal piping is removable through the manway for cleaning or repair; however, removal of the internal piping is usually not necessary for a clean out.

Effective Liquid Level Control System

Our unique brine level control system easily opens and closes a valve in the water inlet line to control liquid level.

The level control can be set for any desired liquid level.  Normally, a “fully wet” mode of 8’ – 9’ is desirable for vacuum granulated or solar salt.  For rock salt, a fully wet level may be used to reduce sludge accumulation and clean-out frequency, or a “semi-wet” level of 3’ – 4’ may be selected.

The digital level control is contained in a corrosion resistant waterproof box.  The unit comes complete with a digital display revealing the brine solution level.  An optional output signal for high-low level alarms capable of sending signals to a PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) is also available from Plas-Tanks.

Enhance your Bulk Brine Maker experience with these options:

• Heating strips coupled with foam insulation – Installed at the  base of a tank to prevent freezing.
• Flow meter and gauges
• Access ladder with cage enclosure and/or roof turn
• Built-in sump for flushing sludge
• Drain nozzle
• Top mounted handrail
• Salt level monitoring system
• Pumps
• Level control output signals to your PLC

Select Bryneer™ Specifications

NSF

Our tanks have received NSF 61 certification. Our systems are widely used in water softening, food processes and in the generation of sodium hypochlorite, which is used in water disinfection processes.  The NSF standard 61 was developed in an effort to control the potentially adverse health effects of products added directly to water for its treatment, storage, and transmission.

Plasta-Therm® Thermal Retention System

Plasta-Therm®: Better from the bottom up

Plasta-Therm® Thermal Retention System eliminates the heating concerns of old-fashioned wrap around tape or heating plates.  It drastically reduces operating costs with a system that is simple, efficient, and trouble-free.

Plasta-Therm® is available with any of the FRP tanks that we design and manufacture.  It can be readily installed in the field or in existing FRP tanks.

What is Plasta-Therm®?
The Plasta-Therm® heating element consists of a fine-gauge, standard, nickel clad resistance wire encapsulated in braided “E” grade fiberglass. Plas-Tanks lays the Plasta-Therm® element near the bottom of the FRP tank and seals it into the structure with a 120-mil barrier.

The Plasta-Therm® element thus becomes an integral part of the tank itself. Protected by its own fiberglass braiding and by the fiberglass of the tank both above it and beneath it, the element is almost damage-proof.

Experience the Benefits of Plasta-Therm® vs. Wrap Around Tape

Plasta-Therm® is much more efficient than outside, wrap-around tape.

• Plasta-Therm® introduces heat at the bottom of the tank so that the heat can do what it does naturally: rise directly into the liquid above it. Wrap-around tape, on the other hand, has to transmit heat sideways through thick, insulating FRP walls. Hence Plasta-Therm® produces more usable heat per KWH of electricity than is possible with conventional outside tape.

The Plasta-Therm® element is controlled by a solid-state system that senses the temperature of the contents of the tank.

• The much more complicated capillary bulb thermostat used with wrap-around tape reacts to the temperature of the tape itself – not to the tank’s contents.

The Plasta-Therm® solid-state system maintains a temperature of ±3°F

• This is a degree of accuracy that is virtually impossible to achieve with conventional tape!

The Plasta-Therm® system eliminates the need for troublesome thermowells, capillary ports, and jumper wires.

Our Plasta-Therm® Thermal Retention System solves the problems that have long been considered necessary evils of outside heating tapes. More important, it provides the most accurate, efficient, reliable method of heating tanks ever developed.

Need assistance? Contact Industrial Water Solutions at 800-820-9021 or info@industrialh2osolutions.com for:

• Service and repair of industrial water softeners, deionizers, reverse osmosis, and filters
• Preventative maintenance and training (PMT) for industrial water softeners, deionizers, reverse osmosis, and filters
• Parts for industrial water softeners, deionizers, reverse osmosis, and filters

Do you need industrial water softener repair or preventative maintenance? Industrial Water Solutions also offers preventative maintenance, engineering consultation, and repair for industrial water softeners. We service and sell industrial water softeners, industrial reverse osmosis and other industrial water systems throughout the U.S. including Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Illinois.
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