Method for preventing scale deposits and removing contaminants from fluid columns

A method for providing magnetic fluid treatment, comprising:

• energizing at least one electrical conductor comprising at least one length of an electrical conducting material having a first conductor lead and a second conductor lead, the at least one electrical conductor being coiled with at least one turn to form at least one uninterrupted coil of electrical conductor encircling at least a section of an outer surface of a conduit, wherein energizing the at least one electrical conductor establishes a magnetic field having lines of flux directed along a flow path formed by the conduit and concentrated in a non-magnetically conductive region of the conduit located between two magnetically conductive regions of the conduit;
• wherein a magnetically conductive conduit segment forms one of the two magnetically conductive regions of the conduit and the at least one electrical conductor is coiled around an outer surface of the magnetically conductive conduit segment;
• and
• directing a fluid through the conduit past the non-magnetically conductive region to provide magnetic fluid treatment to the fluid.