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Further Information and Available Documents

Do you want to know more? If you operate any form of steam boiler you should!

As an introduction to Porta Treatment the paper given at the December 2006 'Developments in Modern Steam Traction for Railways’ Conference, is available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Please note this document is approximately 1MB in size. The paper, 'Porta Treatment Internal Boiler Water Treatment for the 21st Century', can be download by clicking here. Where e-mail is not an option two alternatives exist:

  • A copy is available on CD-ROM (or DVD-ROM) subject to a small charge covering the cost of production, packing and postage. Discs can be shipped anywhere in the world.
  • A paper copy is available, subject to a small charge covering printing, packing and postage. The document can be shipped anywhere in the world.

Click here to make contact about 'Porta Treatment', to ask a question and request a copy of the paper.

Additionally a number of documents giving details of Porta Treatment are available for download. All are available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Many of these are also available for downloading elsewhere on this website.

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  • Porta Treatment - Internal Boiler Water Treatment for the 21st Century (conference paper) (1MB)
  • A Brief History of PT Application (208Kb)
  • Results of Effective Advanced Internal Boiler Water Treatment (148Kb)
  • The Practical Application of 'Porta Treatment' - an Advanced Internal Boiler Water Treatment System - on Steam Locomotives of the Ferrocarril Austral Fueguino, Rep. Argentina (206Kb) Additionally this document is available in HTML format
  • Services Offered (21Kb)
  • The Advantages of Porta Treatment (21Kb)
  • The Potential Savings to be Made (50Kb)
  • Over twenty 'Frequently Asked Questions' are available here (27Kb)
  • A comparison between direct chemical treatment and lineside treatments, such as reverse osmosis, can be read here (29Kb)
  • Is this YOUR Boiler? (714Kb)
  • A Glossary of Technical Terms and abbreviations used is available here (26Kb)
  • A Summary Biography of Ing. L.D.Porta 1922-2003 (210Kb)
  • A Summary Biography of Shaun McMahon (286Kb)

Please note that the previously available paper 'Porta Treatment - An Advanced Internal Boiler Water Treatment Regime', is currently being rewritten and will be available again shortly.

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