cooling tower monitoring Articles
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Portuguese Brewery Saves 72 Million Liters of Water Annually with GE Technology
Sociedade Central de Cervejas e Bebidas (SCC), a brewery in Vialonga near Lisbon, Portugal, has significantly reduced water usage by improving operating performance and reliability with help from GE’s (NYSE: GE) advanced membranes and water chemical technology. The site reused wastewater to its cooling towers, which enabled it to reduce its yearly water discharge by 72 million liters and ...
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Monitoring leaks in Heat exchangers - Case study
The Situation A California refinery produces xylene for use as commercial product and a precursor for petrochemical manufacturing. A primary component to the production of xylene is the isolation and purification of the chemical from a complex mixture of petroleum hydrocarbons. Steam based heat exchangers are used to process the xylene. Inherent to the design and rough duty heat exchangers face ...
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Top 7 Causes of Mold in Commercial Properties
Mold growth within commercial buildings is a common concern for building occupants, as it has been linked to a number of health effects and can be found lurking within the walls and within ventilation systems, oftentimes going undetected for long periods of time. Here are the top seven causes of mold in commercial properties and what you need to know to prevent them. Improper Operation and ...
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10 Most significance of cooling tower water treatment
A cooling tower water treatment is the process which ejects the waste heats to the environment through the cooling of a water stream to redeemed temperature. The method which is used to eliminate the waste heat is the evaporation of water through the heat and cooling process. The cooling water tower is depended on air to cool for the working of the process. The cooling tower used for water ...
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Monitor cooling tower water consumption accurately, without disruption
Operations that want to track cooling tower water use accurately in 24/7 applications — without having to disrupt processes to install a new meter — need options that are easy to retrofit into continuous operations. Here’s how they can achieve + 0.5 percent flow meter accuracy without compromising cooling tower availability, by employing full-profile insertion (FPI) ...
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Maintenance tips for cooling towers - White Paper
Cooling towers are prone to the typical causes of rotating machine failure such as misalignment, but also face a range of specific environmental challenges, including high or gusting wind speeds, dust, sand and, in coastal locations, high concentrations of salt. In the 1990s, for example, vibration and accelerated wear caused a fan blade to shear off a cooling tower in Pennsylvania, resulting in ...
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Are you Flushing Money Down your Cooling Tower?
When it’s up and running properly, your cooling tower is the quiet workhorse and unsung hero of your water system. But neglecting regular inspections, cleaning, and maintenance can lead to hundreds of thousands of dollars down the drain. Here’s how to keep it running at optimum levels of efficiency and performance – both for cost savings and for the environment. Limited Margin ...
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Flue gas treatment process
Flue gas treatment is a process that aims to reduce the emissions of harmful pollutants from the exhaust gases produced by industrial facilities, power plants, and other combustion processes. The treatment of flue gas is essential to mitigate the environmental and health impacts of air pollution. Various technologies and methods are employed in flue gas treatment, depending on the specific ...
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Operators Unlimited Offers Complete System Management to Multinational Conglomerate Facility
Site Survey and Problem Identification In 2018, Operators Unlimited began offering operation services to a multinational customer in the aerospace, building technology and performance materials industries. What began as minor system management and assistance maintaining pre-treatment permit compliance has since grown into a four-and-a-half-year working relationship. Today, Operators Unlimited ...
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Using IoT to Stop Saboteurs, Save Water and Make Money
Griswold Water Systems explains how they modernized their business in an old-school industry and realized unexpected benefits along the way. The Internet of Things often raises security concerns for businesses, but for Griswold Water Systems (GWS), connectivity offered a security solution -- namely, a way to make sure the competition wasn't sabotaging its equipment. Griswold's industry -- ...
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