# Boiler heat recovery and Water treatment chemicals

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/boiler-heat-recovery-and-water-treatment-chemicals/

[Boiler heat recovery](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_boiler_recovery/) (energy) and [Water treatment chemicals](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/water_treatment/) (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.