77-15: Copper Ion Pickup in Recirculation Cooling Tower Systems Codes and Standards

77-15: Copper Ion Pickup in Recirculation Cooling Tower Systems Codes and StandardsPower plant condenser tube represents a significant metallic surface area exposed to a wide compositional range of cooling waters. Copper alloy condenser tube is most frequently employed due to many desirable properties including corrosion resistance, resistance to biofouling and high thermal conductivity. Recent environmental concerns have been expressed regarding the possible toxicity effect to aquatic life from copper in once through cooling water

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Cooling towers are designed to achieve the specified cooling capacity at the highest ambient wet bulb temperatures for the area in which it will be operated

Information will also be presented which should be helpful in doing calculations for elevations other than sea level

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The basin water was circulated through temporary piping to the heat exchangers and back through temporary piping to the heat exchangers and back through the tower frill

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This paper will follow the design process and installation then follow up with detailed results

detect upsets and take appropriate corrective action becomes increasingly important as systems are pushed harder to reduce total cost of operation

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There are instances when an owner wants to assess the thermal performance of just an individual cell of a cooling tower as per ATC 105

This paper demonstrates rather pointedly that cooling tower performance and operation is not so straightforwardly simple as it many times is thought to be