If you’ve ever wanted to dip your toes into the world of calcium reactors, you may have thought that the price of a reactor itself is not that bad, but the costs start to add up when you price out a CO2 cylinder, regulator, solenoid valve and full blown pH controller. While you still need a cylinder and a regulator to meter out the acidifying carbon dioxide to the calcium reactor, it’s absolutely not mandatory to have a pH controller with finicky pH probes and solenoid valves.
当钙反应堆在礁石世界中首次流行时,总体而言,我们甚至没有使用控制器来调节二氧化碳进入反应堆中,而只是针对从中出来的废水来测量酸性水。las,这种运行钙反应器的更简单方法几乎已经失去了自动化热潮,但是有一种简单的方法可以在没有任何机器的情况下监视流出物的pH值。
随着种植储罐的流行的增长,水族馆的水上扎环景已经开发出一个简单的pH指示器,该指示器根据水族馆的pH值而变化,该水族箱的pH值紧随二氧化碳在水中的浓度。当水为碱性/碱性时,溶液为蓝色,当pH值中性时,溶液将为绿色,当酸性为酸性时,溶液将为黄色,并且在新鲜和盐水应用中都起作用。
通过将钙反应器的废水路由到独立的腔室中,我们可以将玻璃pH指示剂放在该废水腔中,并瞥见水是碱性,中性还是酸性的pH值。如果您首先设置钙反应器,则需要慢慢增加二氧化碳的速率,直到流出物会导致pH指示器中的溶液变成明亮的黄色。
我们一直在实验化学pH指示器技术以消除对pH控制器的需求以及可能随附的所有故障点,因此我们可以真正专注于钙反应器本身的性能和操作。Naturally, if we increase the feed rate of water going into the reactor we need to increase the bubble rate a little bit, so it’s not automatic but after a few manual tweaks and some observation of the pH indicator solution the calcium reactor is good to coast for half a year at a time until the reactor is ready for cleaning and refilling with media.