cooling tower protection Articles
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Acid Eddy, Chemical Dilution Trough
What are the benefits of diluting acids (chemicals) with water before it is allowed to enter the basin in cooling towers? *Reduces chemical damage to cooling tower basin *Protects cooling tower sump pumps *Reduces downtime of tower for basin repair *Simple design greatly improves reliability *More precise chemical control *Lowers chemical costs by controlling chemical feed rate Global ...
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Cooling Tower Pump Damage and Exchanger Fouling Prevention with Traveling Water Screens
Cooling towers are common infrastructure across a variety of facilities in many different industries. Keeping them up and running is an important task, and if they need to be shut down, that can be a costly decision. Even standard maintenance intervals can be an expensive downtime event. However, making repairs and replacements can wreak havoc on both operational schedules and the bottom line. ...
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Industrial Cooling Tower Screen Maintenance
Water towers are critical pieces of infrastructure for any industrial facility. While their purpose is essential to the efficiency and efficacy of any operation, downtime for maintenance can impact both of these goals, as well as your bottom line. However, with the best cooling tower screens, you can mitigate downtime for repairs and reduce, if not eliminate, the amount of time and resources ...
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Scaletron - case study
The Customer L A Maintenance is a leading building services maintenance contractor well known for its innovative approach. One of its functions is the maintenance of air-conditioning units for computer suites and other areas where controlled air quality is essential. The problem In order to ensure a controlled air quality the air conditioning units are fitted with humidification units. The ...
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Optimised Legionella protection for cooling towers - Enhanced safety in five steps
Poorly maintained cooling towers and evaporative condensers, coupled with old pipe systems or boilers,are one of the breeding grounds that can contribute to the spread of Legionella-containing aerosols. Plant operators can significantly reduce this risk in just five steps. The use of anti-bacterial packing materials of the type supplied by Enexio is a key cornerstone here. One problem that has ...
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HydroFLOW and Cooling Tower eliminating the need for chemical treatments case study
Misericordia Hospital – Alberta – 2011 In June, 2011 Misericordia Hospital began a three-month trial on two of the three cooling towers in its facility. The test compared the effectiveness of HydroFLOW in eliminating limescale and algae vs. standard chemical treatment. Standard chemical treatment was removed from Cooling Tower #3 and a P-160 HydroFLOW unit installed. Standard chemical ...
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Open and closed cooling towers cost comparison
Open and closed cooling towers cost comparisonCooling towers are widely used equipment in industry and provide the function of cooling water treatment and reuse. In the cooling system, the cooling tower can be divided into open type and closed type according to its structure type. Open cooling towers are widely used due to their simplicity of design and implementation. Although closed cooling ...
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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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Process cooling in Singapore case study
Chemical free Scale and Legionella prevention by Fluid Dynamics Introduction The client, Sunstream International is a company specialising in plastics sheet extrusion. Sunstream were installing a new extrusion line in their existing factory. The line has two chillers and a 50RT cooling tower positioned on the roof space. Space was at a premium and also previous experience had taught them that ...
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ASHRAE Standard 188P: Prevention of Legionellosis Associated with Building Water Systems
For Presentation at the AWT 2011 Convention and Exposition The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) has developed a proposed Standard Practice that specifies what is required to prevent legionellosis associated with building water systems. Standard 188P is a “Practices” standard – not a “Design” or “Method/Measure ...
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