14-18: A Detailed Independent Field Site Evaluation of Electrodynamic FieldAn extensive evaluation of corrosion, deposits, and both bio mass and suspended bacteria testing was established for a cooling tower water system to determine the effectiveness of an Electrodynamic Field generator. This independent evaluation was monitored for over 11 months utilizing corrosion coupons, sessile and planktonic bacteria testing as well as photos of the cooling tower fill and testing of the chiller performance. This detailed monitoring

sacrificial corrosion methods

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

Inexpensive well water currently being withdrawn from the ground has been linked with a serious land subsidence problem

The newly developed dynamic scale test apparatus quantitatively relates degree of scale inhibition to these factors

block fluid flow

the reclamation of large amounts of agricultural water

If the enhanced cooling tower is operated as an evaporative chiller that can completely displace refrigeration equipment

environmental

Two case studies are reported on cooling towers in a utility and a petrochemical plant

The Cooling Tower Institute published its book

Design features incorporated into the specifications for major rebuild/repack projects for crossflow and counterflow towers to facilitate cold weather operation are also reviewed

Technologies that are coming to the forefront from include membrane bioreactors (MBR) and moving bed bioreactors (MBBR)