{"id":1162,"date":"2024-04-04T19:39:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T19:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team04\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2024-05-02T16:31:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T16:31:01","slug":"how-do-pellet-reactors-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team04\/2024\/04\/04\/how-do-pellet-reactors-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How do Pellet Reactors work?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Imagine your water is hard like a rock. Pellet softening is like magic that turns that rock into a fluffy cloud! Instead of clumpy lime causing trouble, we use a cool system that makes the water softer. Hard water comes in, gets mixed up with special stuff like milk of lime or caustic soda, and swirls around in a bed of tiny particles. These particles attract the rock-like stuff in the water, turning it into soft, fluffy pellets. Once they&#8217;re big enough, they sink to the bottom, and we can scoop them out. It&#8217;s like turning hard water into a soft, fluffy dream!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1011\" height=\"535\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2024\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2024\/04\/image.png 1011w, https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2024\/04\/image-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2024\/04\/image-768x406.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2024\/04\/image-397x210.png 397w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1011px) 100vw, 1011px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pellet reactors at work, source: https:\/\/www.royalhaskoningdhv.com\/en\/services\/crystalactor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine your water is hard like a rock. Pellet softening is like magic that turns that rock into a fluffy cloud! Instead of clumpy lime causing trouble, we use a cool system that makes the water softer. Hard water comes&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team04\/2024\/04\/04\/how-do-pellet-reactors-work\/\" aria-label=\"Read \\\"How do Pellet Reactors work?\\\" class=\"read-more\">Read&nbsp;More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,12],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camila-del-sol-pina","category-springsemester","tag-week-24"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}