The Impact of Limescale on Home Appliances in a Building

Hajji Abdelghani, Abbou Ahmed, El Boukili Abdellah

2018

Abstract

The problem of limescale in hydraulic devices that produce or use hot water is a well-known phenomenon in everyday life. It is common in the following appliances: electric water heater, washing machine, dishwasher, coffee maker, electric kettle, etc. To overcome this problem, several approaches exist and can be applied to the different levels of the hot water production system. This work enables to characterize the drinking water of some regions in Morocco, looks for conditions that minimize limescale production and shows experimentally that this latter has a significant effect on the energy bill of a building. The results show that it is preferable to introduce a water filtering system (softener), especially in areas where water is hard or very hard. This will be applied to the building's water supply to reduce the energy bill, extend the life of hydraulic installations, reduce the frequency of maintenance, make soap and detergents more efficient and also improve the quality of drinking water.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Abdelghani H., Ahmed A. and Abdellah E. (2018). The Impact of Limescale on Home Appliances in a Building.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of Computer Science and Renewable Energies - Volume 1: ICCSRE, ISBN 978-989-758-431-2, pages 423-428. DOI: 10.5220/0009773804230428

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iccsre18,
author={Hajji Abdelghani and Abbou Ahmed and El Boukili Abdellah},
title={The Impact of Limescale on Home Appliances in a Building},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of Computer Science and Renewable Energies - Volume 1: ICCSRE,},
year={2018},
pages={423-428},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009773804230428},
isbn={978-989-758-431-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of Computer Science and Renewable Energies - Volume 1: ICCSRE,
TI - The Impact of Limescale on Home Appliances in a Building
SN - 978-989-758-431-2
AU - Abdelghani H.
AU - Ahmed A.
AU - Abdellah E.
PY - 2018
SP - 423
EP - 428
DO - 10.5220/0009773804230428