01-05: Cooling Tower #4, Fan Failure Dry Cooling

01-05: Cooling Tower #4, Fan Failure Dry CoolingThe Chocolate Bayou Plant is a world class chemical plant located in Alvin, Texas about 40 miles south of Houston. The plant chemical processes are cooled by 3 mechanical draft cooling towers with a combined recirculation rate of 267,000 gpm. In March, Cooling Tower 4 experienced a catastrophic failure of the #8 fan. The root caused investigation indicated serious corrosion problems with fan equipment, reliability problems with vibration detection

Matrai Power Plant in Hungary decided in 1990 to replace all former "solutions" with one "Quality Set" for the different performances

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with effective particle filtration to five microns

Mechanical Draft

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In the new laboratory is the experimental test cell for drift eliminator testing

Laboratory electrochemical results will be presented as well as plant application case histories

Comparisons between a universal motor design and a more traditional motor design concept will be made

Difficulties included poor performance of an upstream multi-media filter

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biochemical monitors