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Morton Potassium Chloride Pellets | Morton® Potassium Chloride Pellets soften your water while adding potassium to it. Morton® Potassium Chloride Pellets are 99% sodium-free, therefore reducing sodium levels in your softened water... See more » Morton Potassium Chloride Pellets | Morton® Potassium Chloride Pellets soften your water while adding potassium to it. Morton® Potassium Chloride Pellets are 99% sodium-free, therefore reducing sodium levels in your softened water and reducing chlorides discharged into the environment. This product also provides the essential plant nutrient potassium to the ecosystem. 40-lb. Morton® Potassium Chloride Pellets come in a convenient, easy-open bag. | Performance Data We have received numerous requests from dealers and customers about the use of potassium chloride (s/b KCl) as a regenerant for water softeners. As a result, we set up two identical water softeners and regenerated one with sodium chloride and one with potassium chloride. Both units were exhausted with 13-gpg hard water. From the capacity data we obtained, it appears that potassium chloride can be substituted directly for sodium chloride in a water softener with no loss of capacity. Experiments conducted in homes indicate consumers noticed no difference in taste between sodium or potassium regenerated softeners. There was also no noticeable change in the feel of the water softened by either regenerant. The potassium chloride was supplied to us in a granulated form and the sodium chloride was furnished as pellets. Caking experiments showed granular potassium chloride was much more prone to caking and salt bridging than was sodium chloride. We also found that the solubility of potassium chloride fluctuates with temperature whereas the solubility of sodium chloride does not. In areas of the country where outside installations subject the brine tank to wide fluctuations in temperature the use of potassium chloride could result in brine draw fouling. Sodium Based Salt vs. Potassium Based Pellets The Kenmore 420 Series and 370 Series water softeners have both sodium chloride and potassium chloride settings programmed into their memory. Customers who own any of the other Kenmore water softeners need to adjust the hardness setting on their control panel 20% higher if they are using potassium chloride (i.e., if a customers softener is set at 25 gpg with sodium pellets, they need to adjust the hardness to 30 gpg if they switch to potassium chloride). Normal Sodium and Potassium Consumption The FDA recommends that the average American consume approximately 2400 mg of sodium per day and 3500 mg of potassium per day. The following are samples of common food items and their approximate sodium and potassium content in milligrams: | Baked Potato 240 mg sodium 533 mg potassium Slice of Bread 150 mg sodium | If the water hardness is 20 grains per gallon, the softener will add 150 milligrams of sodium to each quart of water. 150 milligrams of sodium is equal to the sodium in one slice of white bread. See less »

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