Glossary Of Terms - Kinetico Premier Series Owner's Manual

Glossary of Terms

: Softeners or back-washing filters that start regeneration via clock.
Automatic
High velocity rinsing of softening resin or filtration, normally upflow.
Backwash:
Salt solution used to regenerate resin.
Brine:
Holds salt to make brine for regeneration.
Brine Tank:
Manually operated valves to divert flow around POE equipment,
By-pass:
or, automatic diversion of flow inside a controller for single tank POE during
regeneration.
Activated carbon found in POE equipment for dechlorination, taste and
Carbon:
odor reduction.
High performance filtration media with exceptional
Chloraban™:
chloramine reduction capability, for taste and odor reduction.
Combination System:
four separated media tanks and one control.
Counter-current:
Demand initiated regeneration.
DIR:
Direction of water flow with gravity through resin or filtration media.
Downflow:
Referring to grains of hardness removed / pound of salt for a water
Efficiency:
softener.
Grains per gallon of hardness.
gpg:
1 US gpg = 17.1 ppm of hardness as CaCO
Gallons per minute.
gpm:
Grains per pound (salt efficiency).
gpp:
Engineered ceramic filtration media.
Macrolite® RX:
Device to measure flow to service from POE softener or filter for DIR.
Meter:
Micrometer (µm) for solid particle diameter.
Micron:
Parallel service flow, i.e., water flows through both tanks
Overdrive:
simultaneously.
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Duplex combination filter / softener system using
Direction of service flow and regeneration flow are opposite.
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