How Does Ion Exchange Method Remove Hardness Of Water?
Ion exchange method-
Step-1
The hardness of water is due to the presence of a number of ions such as chloride ions, sulfate ions, and bicarbonates ions of calcium or magnesium metal these ions are present in the water when it passes through any rock, Hard water is not capable of producing lather on reacting with soap solution because different ion reacts with soap and form precipitate which is insoluble in nature and thus get settled at the bottom of soap solution.
Step-2
Therefore, the ion exchange method is used to remove the hardness of water, different ions which is responsible for causing the hardness of water are substituted with less damaging ion, ion exchange is of two types namely inorganic ion exchange or organic ion exchange.
For example, in order to remove the hardness of ion by inorganic ion exchange hard water is poured into the tank which has hydrated sodium aluminium silicate as an exchanger which reacts with the calcium ion of hard water to form calcium zeolite.