How Water Flows Through Water Treatment Solutions For Upflow Softener Systems?

A water softener’s primary operation is to remove hard water minerals. The following is details how typical water softener gets rid of hard water.

The hard water enters the top the water softener and passes down through the resin media. This is where Ion exchange occurs.

Ion exchange: Removes the hard minerals (calcium and magnesium) to produce soft water. As water flows through the resin bed the resin attracts the hard water ions and exchanges them with a very small amount of sodium.

The treated water, which is now soft water, then flows up through the center distributor tube and into the home.

Regarding the sodium that is added to water, there is very little salt added into soft water.

For every 10 GPG of hard water, only 0.075 grams/L of sodium is added for every quart of water.

As a reference, soft water contains a lot less sodium than 8 ounces of milk, and the daily food and condiments that we use daily.

The KDF-55 (for upflow designs) or KDF-85 (for downflow designs) Filter comes pre-installed at the bottom of the distribution tube.

The KDF filter provides enhanced water filtration to remove chlorine and heavy meals from the water giving you soft, chlorine-free water. throughout the home



This softener operates the same as without the filter.

A water softener’s primary operation is to remove hard water minerals. The following is details how typical water softener gets rid of hard water.

The hard water enters the top the water softener and passes down through the resin media. This is where Ion exchange occurs.

Ion exchange: Removes the hard minerals (calcium and magnesium) to produce soft water. As water flows through the resin bed the resin attracts the hard water ions and exchanges them with a very small amount of sodium.

The treated water, which is now soft water, then flows up through the center distributor tube and into the home.

Regarding the sodium that is added to water, there is very little salt added into soft water.

For every 10 GPG of hard water, only 0.075 grams/L of sodium is added for every quart of water.

As a reference, soft water contains a lot less sodium than 8 ounces of milk, and the daily food and condiments that we use daily.

An Upflow Chlorine+ Filter removes chlorine, chloramine, heavy metals and many more contaminates that can be present in your water.

Upflow Chlorine+ Filter Service Operation:
The water flows through the side marked up flow on the carbon filter.
The water then flows down the center of the distribution tube and then filter upward through the carbon bed.
The carbon is being lifted and turned over as you are using water keeping the carbon loose, which eliminates the need for backwashing cycles. This saves you money on wasting water.



This softener operates the same as without the filter.

A water softener’s primary operation is to remove hard water minerals. The following is details how typical water softener gets rid of hard water.

The hard water enters the top the water softener and passes down through the resin media. This is where Ion exchange occurs.

Ion exchange: Removes the hard minerals (calcium and magnesium) to produce soft water. As water flows through the resin bed the resin attracts the hard water ions and exchanges them with a very small amount of sodium.

The treated water, which is now soft water, then flows up through the center distributor tube and into the home.

Regarding the sodium that is added to water, there is very little salt added into soft water.

For every 10 GPG of hard water, only 0.075 grams/L of sodium is added for every quart of water.

As a reference, soft water contains a lot less sodium than 8 ounces of milk, and the daily food and condiments that we use daily.

The brine rinse is needed to strip the hardness minerals off the resin bed, and to recharge the resin with sodium ions so the resin can remove hardness from the water again.

The brine solution in the brine tank gets sucked out through the tubing that is connected from the side of the softener control valve.

The brine solution then travels down the center softener tank distribution tube and slowly pushes its way up the resin bed to recharge the bed so it can be ready to soften the water again.

This is called upflow brining which is up to 5% more efficient than the traditional downflow brining water softeners.

Auto variable backwash is a high-efficiency water saving mode. Typically, this is set to regenerate every 5th cycle for 7 min.

The backwash is needed to lift the resin bed and flush out the old hardness minerals that the brine rinse has stripped off the resin bed. This removes any excess salt that was not used to recharge the resin bed.

Then it flushes out through the drain line that is connected the softener control valve and into the designated area to drain.

How it works:
The water flows down the center distribution tube and then pushes up on the resin bed lifting it up and cleaning and flushing old minerals and sodium from the system.

The average preset backwash time is 10 minutes.

How it works:
Water flows through softener control valve into tank and flows down through resin bed
The water then returns up the distribution tube and out the drain.

The average rapid rinse time is set for 10 minutes.

Rapid Rinse is needed to rinse to settle the resin down after backwash and to slowly remove any excess minerals and salt from system. 

Soft Water Brining
Brine refill is replenishes the water back into the brine tank (or "salt tank") so salt can dissolve to create the brine solution for the next softener regeneration cycle.

How it works:
The water flowing into softener control valve and runs through the resin bed so the water entering the brine tank is soft water “this is called soft water brining”.

The water then flows through the tube that is connected from the softener control valve to the brine tank. 

The control valve calculates the proper amount as set in control valve programming.

The amount of time this takes is dictated by the amount needed to dissolve the salt to properly operate the grain capacity softener size.