High Iron Content

Alan (California Radiant) Forbes

Most of our work is in the inner Bay Area where water quality is excellent, but today we traveled to a remote job that used well water. It has a high iron content and am wondering if someone could suggest a product - Rhomar or otherwise - that could neutralize or scavenge the iron from the heat exchangers (boiler and indirect).

hot_rod

It may be better to run a cleaner, flush and refill with good water that you take to the job. Put a fill tank with a few extra gllons to replace any purged air.
I think iron would need to be filtered out, not chemically removed or locked up. When you run a faucet does it smell like rust? That is an indication of high dissolved iron content.
I had high dissolved iron well water and it had a filter that used an air compressor to jam O2 in, then to a contact tank, and finally it ran through a multi bed filter. When it backwashed the discharge was blood red.

Give Rhomar a call tomorrow, they may want to know what levels you are dealing with. The bluish white looks like basic hard water deposits, calcium and magnesium. That is a lot easier to deal with compared to iron water.