64-01: Experience in Retarding Wood Rot by the Use of Plenum Chamber SpraysIs there any relation between cooling tower slime and wood rot? We asked ourselves this question some years ago and then undertook an applied research investigation to determine the answer. As the project progressed, we found we were adding more questions and finding fewer answers, but in the course of the work we did make a number of observations which may be of interest to those who build and use wooden cooling towers.

corrosion monitor that is capable of simulating a plant's critical heat exchangers

Low levels of zinc are used to reduce the dependency on alkalinity and calcium carbonate super saturation for corrosion control

This paper reveals our findings

Revised May 2017

a German engineer

was essential to validating the response to the treatment program changes before they could impact plant efficiency

molybdate and other ions

water treatment vendors such as ourselves are seeking alternative methods to effectively threaten CCT's

scaling and biological fouling in a side-by-side comparison to standard chemical treatment

The paper includes 10 months of operational data from a 345-MWe power plant with NDCT

dust and insects would surely be scrubbed from the atmosphere by the large roof top cooling tower that was to provide cooling water to a package unit designed to condense water from a nearby commercial building to condition indoor air

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