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The following articles are posted here soley for educational purposes. Currently all articles are written by Charles Michaud, but as permission is granted, other articles will be posted. If you wish to submit an article for posting, please send it in PDF format to info@systematixusa.com.

All articles are reprinted with permission of Water Conditioning & Purification Magazine. Any reuse or republication, in part or whole, must be be with the written consent of the Publisher.

General Chemistry and Engineering

Author
Title
Date
Charles Michaud, Designing Ion Exchange Systems: Reading a Water Analysis (Part 1 of 4)
Aug. 1990
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Charles Michaud, Designing for Success: Weighing the Consequences Important in System Design
Apr. 1992
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Charles Michaud, Maintaining the Performance Edge With PE Systems
June 1992
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Charles Michaud, Regenerable Cartridge Filters Spur Growth in POU Systems
Mar. 1995
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Charles Michaud, Reducing Regeneration Waste
June 1995
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Charles Michaud, Sizing Whole House Softeners and GAC Filters
Nov. 1995
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Charles Michaud, Catching Up With the Metric System
Mar. 1996
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Charles Michaud, An Inside Look at Ion Exchange Capacity
Jan. 1998
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Charles Michaud, The Basics of Chemistry (Part 1 of 3)
Apr. 1998
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Charles Michaud, The Basics of Chemistry (Part 2 of 3)
May 1998
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Charles Michaud, The Basics of Chemistry (Part 3 of 3)
June 1998
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Charles Michaud, The Evolution of "Ultrapure": A Trail Blazed by Instrumentation
Nov. 1998
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Charles Michaud, Boiler Feed Water: Reducing Scale and Corrosion (Part 1 of 2)
Mar. 2001
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Charles Michaud, Boiler Feed Water: Reducing Scale and Corrosion (Part 2 of 2)
Apr. 2001
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Charles Michaud, Hydralics: Taking the Pressure Off Your Softeners
Aug. 2001
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Charles Michaud, Sampling Quality and the Quality of the Sample: The Key to Good Resin Management is Good Sampling
Nov. 2004
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Ion Exchange

Author
Title
Date
Charles Michaud, Ion Exchange Resin: Methods of Degradation
Jan. 1990
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Charles Michaud, Designing Ion Exchange Systems: Reading a Water Analysis (Part 1 of 4)
Aug. 1990
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Charles Michaud, Designing Ion Exchange Systems: Selecting a Resin (Part 2 of 4)
Sep. 1990
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Charles Michaud, Designing Ion Exchange Systems: Rating the Resin (Part 3 of 4)
Oct. 1990
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Charles Michaud, Designing Ion Exchange Systems: Troubleshooting DI Systems (Part 4 of 4)
Nov. 1990
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Charles Michaud, Better Brining For Higher Effeciency: Slow, Low-Salt Regeneration Works Best
May 1993
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Charles Michaud, Zero Discharge Softener Regeneration
May 1994
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Charles Michaud, Regenerable Cartridge Filters Spur Growth in POU Systems
Mar. 1995
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Charles Michaud, Reducing Regeneration Waste
June 1995
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Charles Michaud, Sizing Whole House Softeners and GAC Filters
Nov. 1995
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Charles Michaud, A Softener Maintenance Program Could Benefit Your Business
May 1996
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Charles Michaud, An Inside Look at Ion Exchange Capacity
Jan. 1998
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Charles Michaud, More Than Down on the Farm: Nitrate Reduction Presents a New Opprortunity for Business
Feb. 1998
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Charles Michaud, The Pathway to Customer Satisfaction: Expecting and Getting Perfection from a New Softener
Jan. 1999
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Charles Michaud, After SB1006: Factors Affecting the Brine Efficiency of Softeners (Part 1 of 2)
Aug. 1999
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Charles Michaud, After SB1006: Factors Affecting the Brine Efficiency of Softeners (Part 2 of 2)
Sep. 1999
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Charles Michaud, Oxidation: Oxidizers, Age and Softening Resin
Aug. 2000
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Charles Michaud, Factors Affecting the Brine Efficiency of Softeners—Revisited: The Quest for Perfection
Feb. 2002
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Charles Michaud, Ion Exchange Regains Limelight: Used as Treatment for Selective Ion Removal from Well Water
Apr. 2003
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Charles Michaud, Water Softening: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Aug. 2003
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Charles Michaud, Arsenic in the Old West: The Tribe Said 'Why?' and the USEPA Said 'Why Not?'
Feb. 2004
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Activated Carbon

Author
Title
Date
Charles Michaud, GAC: To Become "Workhorse" of Water Purification (Part 1 of 3)
June 1988
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Charles Michaud, GAC: If At First You Don't Succeed...Try, Try Again (Part 2 of 3)
July 1988
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Charles Michaud, GAC: Putting it All Together (Part 3 of 3)
Aug. 1988
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Charles Michaud, Granular Re-Activated Carbon: The Re-Workhorse of the Water Filtration Industry (Part 1 of 2)
Feb. 1991
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Charles Michaud, Granular Re-Activated Carbon: The Re-Workhorse of the Water Filtration Industry (Part 2 of 2)
Mar. 1991
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Charles Michaud, Sizing Whole House Softeners and GAC Filters
Nov. 1995
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Charles Michaud, What's New With Granular Activated Carbon: A Review of GAC
June 1996
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Environmental

Author
Title
Date
Charles Michaud, Zero Discharge Softener Regeneration
May 1994
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Charles Michaud, Reducing Regeneration Waste
June 1995
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Charles Michaud, Is Our Future Dammed
Feb. 2001
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Charles Michaud, Back to the Beginning: Water Recycling Proves Its Worth at Plating Operation
Mar. 2004
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Charles Michaud, ‘Zero D’ Revisited: An Inside Look at Softener Discharge Control
Jun. 2004
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