Supervisory Guide Handling Water Treatment Chemicals - WTG-132 Fouling

Supervisory Guide Handling Water Treatment Chemicals - WTG-132 FoulingA guide for first line supervisors responsible for cooling tower treatment operations. October 1984

This paper is a condensed version of a very broad subject

Applied cooling water chemical treatments are often accepted as the end-of-all and the cure-for-all system problems

This unique chemical approach provides multimetal corrosion control

data collection and acquisition systems to capture specific behaviors will be addressed in simplified and usable terms

Up to the present

For several years many cooling towers have been designed with a plume abatement device to reduce or eliminate plume formation under some weather conditions (mainly in winter)

A large semi-closed cooling water system was created ten years ago and since has had aggressive corrosion attack particularly on carbon steel surfaces

The effectiveness of molybdate as a corrosion inhibitor in cooling water systems has been studied

can reduce this previously labor-intensive task to a rather simple one of graphical data screening

important to get the cooling water at the right temperature to ensure optimal performance / efficiency of a plant

fouling of ultrafilter membranes from standard cooling tower treatment chemicals

describes the extent and severity of the problem