Acids & Descalers for Mining in Namibia

Because membranes are where water scarcity and capital meet: RO and filtration membranes fouled by hardness scale lose flux, drive up pressure and energy, and cost serious money to replace — on sites where every cubic metre of water is accounted for. Chloracid 90’s inhibitor lets the acid dissolve the scale without attacking housings and hardware, restoring flux for the price of a circulation. The segmentation sheet lists this application by name; it is that central.

Almost always at distance: Dicafas travels as a stable 25 kg powder up gravel roads that punish liquid drums, stores indefinitely in site heat, and dissolves into fresh working acid only at the point of use — which shortens the hazard chain from Windhoek to the descale job by its whole transport leg. Liquid Chloracid 90 wins for circulating pickles of fixed plant. Most belt sites end up stocking both, each for its geometry.

By trend, ahead of failure: pressure-drop and temperature-approach logs on exchangers and membranes show scaling long before capacity visibly falls, and a descale slotted at the next maintenance window costs hours — while a scale-driven failure costs the window you didn’t plan. Cernol sizes the charge from system volume and water analysis so the window estimate is real. The alternative, descaling “when it struggles”, is how struggling becomes the operating state.

Systems, not vigilance: dedicated acid-handling PPE stored with the product, permit-to-work covering chlorine separation (no Sypo or other hypochlorite anywhere in the job zone — the gas risk is the one that kills), acid-into-water mixing enforced by procedure, and neutralise-and-flush as a signed step before recommissioning. We supply SDS-backed method guidance with each product; the mine’s safety system gives it teeth.