13-02: Should I Use a Chemical Treatment Program for My Tower or a Physical Cleaning Systems

13-02: Should I Use a Chemical Treatment Program for My Tower or a Physical Cleaning SystemsThe appeal of non chemical treatment alternatives cannot be ignored by specifiers and users. With these physical treatment devices you can eliminate the reported disadvantages of handling and inventorying chemicals; reduce your environmental concern, and qualify for Leeds Credits. The only question is Do they work? The author presents his recommendations for the types of information you need to make a good decision and provides case histories and

Two concrete cooling towers serving a generating station exhibited concrete deterioration

Carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP)

Another feature of this type of cooling tower is the separate machine sets allocated to the wet section and dry section respectively as well as automatic operation to an optimized overall performance

The consumptive use of water is of con­cern to us -- for plants that use cooling towers (the practical alternate method to using stream or reservoir water) use more (consumptive) water per kilowatt hour generated than do plants which are able to circulate their cooling water in lakes

specific areas are discussed

are discussed as input parameters to concrete service life prediction models

including a detailed study of the mechanism of film formation

fan power savings from 10% to more than 50% can be achieved along with water consumption savings from 10% to more than 30%

Comprehensive drift measurements were made on multiple cells of a circular crossflow mechanical draft-cooling tower

Because of environmental and health considerations and the deteriorated condition of the fill itself

dissolved oxygen

the second test was applied on eliminators with a layer of about 1