18-02: Efficient Water Use to Boost the Air-Cooled Condenser Performance Repair and Construction

18-02: Efficient Water Use to Boost the Air-Cooled Condenser Performance Repair and ConstructionDuring hot ambient conditions, it is often desirable to boost the performance of an ACC (Air Cooled Condenser) to avoid a steam turbine trip under full load conditions. A Simple way to accomplish this is to spray water into the ACC air inlet (evaporative cooling). But this approach has many drawbacks and does not work under certain operating conditions. A more efficient way is to use the water in a small wet section add on. The water consumption and

coupled with the right chemical treatment program and the benefits it offers the operating owners

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on a timely basis

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promote the development of improved chemical products

These include overall heat transfer coefficient

improve system energy efficiency

The nonchromate phosphorus-based cooling tower corrosion inhibitor formulations in wide use today often suffer from performance degradation due to system stresses

evaluation and construction in order to obtain a quality-cooling tower

The successful completion of cooling tower construction and repair projects depends on the proper execution of many activities at the proper time

This paper provides examples of some of the diagnostic tests routinely employed by the author when troubleshooting cooling tower performance problems

Laboratory feasibility experiments will be presented that simulate a few of the representative application scenarios