Marine Watermakers: How to Select the Right System

Marine watermakers provide reliable fresh water and, in some circumstances, potable water for your operation. Since they support your operations with such crucial functionality, marine watermakers are an important investment. If you select the right one, you can enjoy its benefits for decades.

Selecting the wrong one can lead to confusion, demanding maintenance procedures, and the eventual need to purchase another watermaker sooner than you would like.

When people cut corners to save on costs, such as the focusing only on initial cost of acquiring a marine watermaker, for example, they can see increased operational expenses instead of extended savings. 

Fortunately, if you select the right watermaker system, you can expect long-term function.

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Maintaining a Sodium Hypochlorite Generator: Annual Inspection Checklist

Your sodium hypochlorite generator keeps your rig or vessel’s cooling water systems free of biofouling. This system is essential—and expensive. Fortunately, routine maintenance and consistent check-ins on its performance will go a long way towards protecting your hypochlorite generator and its parts as well as your investment.  

However, it’s equally crucial to have an expert inspect your hypochlorite generator from time to time. Your annual inspection will serve as a baseline to help you keep tabs on your generator throughout the year, and also help your team flag issues for immediate maintenance to avoid unpleasant surprises with higher-cost repairs later on. 

Interested in what your inspector will be assessing during your hypochlorite generator’s annual checkup? This checklist will give you an idea of what they will be looking out for.

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Watermaker Supplies: Filters & Spare Parts To Have On Hand

Offshore platforms and drilling rigs are in essence a small community of people living and working at sea. Just like with community water systems reliability and safety are of vital importance. Your watermaker helps meet the need of your floating community, which is often located hundreds of miles from an alternative source of fresh, safe water. As this is the case, your watermaker is as important to you as any piece of production equipment.  Watermaker manufacturers realize this and build water treatment systems that are built to last.

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Maintaining Your Offshore Watermaker: 5 Important Parts to Watch and Care For

Watermakers produce potable water that is safe for both human contact and consumption. As they meet such a critical need, offshore watermakers tend to have extensive safety features, durable components that can last a long time, and easy use and maintenance practices. 

However, it’s also important to realize that you need to be prepared for what could happen if your watermaker ceases working at an inopportune moment. Without a properly working watermaker, you would either need to rely on emergency water deliveries or delay the use of your boat or offshore rig. 

Watermakers are expensive; a brand-new unit can cost up to $150K. What’s more, improper maintenance can accelerate their replacement time line. However, the alternative does suggest good news. Keeping an eye on the health of individual parts of your watermaker, knowing when it’s best to replace each component, and practicing routine maintenance can extend the life of your offshore watermaker.

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How to Properly Maintain the High-Pressure Pump on Your Watermaker

If you work on or maintain a boat, offshore rig, or offshore oil or gas production platform, you know that one of your most important consumables is fresh, potable water. The saltwater with which you’re surrounded is filled with not only salt but also refuse, seaweed, silt, and other contaminants that can make it unsafe for regular use. 

Through the process of reverse osmosis, you can take any kind of water; filter, neutralize, and disinfect it; and get fresh water as an output. A device known as a watermaker harnesses the power of reverse osmosis and uses specialized protocols to make sure that the processed water is safe for drinking—and safe for long-term storage. 

A watermaker depends, in part, on a fine-tuned high-pressure pump to drive the integral reverse osmosis process. It’s important to know how your watermaker works, what the unsafe conditions for your high-pressure pump may be, and how to maintain your system to ensure a constant source of safe water.

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6 Factors To Consider When Selecting A Watermaker

When it comes to the critical choice of selecting a watermaker for your offshore, marine or industrial location you have very important factors to consider.

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