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Boiler heat recovery and Water treatment chemicals

Their prices have moved together.

Boiler heat recovery (energy) and Water treatment chemicals (chemical): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: condensate quality

Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways

Recovering condensate saves water and treatment chemicals, which keep boilers free of scale and corrosion. Yearly moves correlate at 0.58 with the water treatment index, mostly a shared US industrial price trend.

  • 0.17 monthly change correlation
  • 0.58 12-month change correlation
  • 1.61 fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.