Traveling Water Screens Articles
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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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What is a Traveling Water Screen?: Three Things to Consider for Your Cooling Tower
Traveling water or traveling sump screens are ideal for facilities looking to reduce or eliminate the cost and resource expenditure for maintenance, cleaning, and replacement that static water screens require. Traveling water screens have long been regarded as an effective, efficient, low-maintenance option. How Do Traveling Cooling Tower Screens Work? This type of filter gets its name ...
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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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Cooling tower for Chemical processing plant - case study
This chemical processing plant needed clean, debris-free water for cooling purposes. We created custom traveling water screens for their cooling tower that are compact and efficient. Smaller mesh sizes can catch fine debris for a this type of installation. No matter what architectural or engineering constraints, we’ll create a water screen solution that fits. This project included: ...
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Nebraska inline Traveling water screen - case study
A Nebraska irrigation district installed this IWS traveling water screen system to help protect pipelines leading as well as pivot irrigation lines. Previous years required repeated cleaning of pivot filters and nozzles. Since the install, they have seen dramatic reduction in downtime and less need for back-flushing of lines for clean out. This project included: Traveling Screen(s) ...
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Vertical water screen for Pittsburgh, CA - case study
The City of Pittsburg, California looked at repairing their old FMC vertical traveling water screens, but the price was exorbitant… Until they contacted International Water Screens. Our quote for a new water screen was lower than the estimated price to repair the FMC screen. After a year of operation they found that our design was much more efficient than the FMC screen. So, they decided ...
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Union county aquifer restoration
Client: Union County Water Conservation Board Completion Date: 2003 Services Provided 65-MGD river intake Mechanically cleaned bar screen Two traveling water screens Quarter-mile-long access bridge with service deck Four 15,050 gpm vertical turbine intake pumps 48-inch raw water transmission line Regulatory agencies coordination Project Summary South central Arkansas ...
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Performance monitoring & troubleshooting with a new individual condenser tube circulating water flow and fouling (ClA/FF) meter - case study
Introduction Midwest Generation Joliet Station in Illinois has two coal-fired units, Unit 7 and Unit 8. Roth 550 MW units are located on the Des Plaines River and have been in operation since 1963-1964. The circulating water system is a once-through system comprised of a bar rack, traveling screens, circulating water pumps and reversible condensers. The original condenser tubes on Unit 8 were ...
By Intek, Inc.
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