67-04: Sea Water as an Industrial Coolant Manual

67-04: Sea Water as an Industrial Coolant ManualThe Texas Division of The Dow Chemical Company is now pumping about 2 million GPM of sea water. Some of this is used for the extraction of magnesium and bromine, but most is for once through cooling. The power plants have a combined maximum capacity of 880 megawatts and 13 million lbs. per hour of steam. The Division has had over 25 years' experience in this area. Handling such a volume involves many conditions ranging from near stagnation to high

A new field method for enumerating viable Legionella and total heterotrophic aerobic bacteria was evaluated in hundreds of laboratory experiments and from analysis of over two thousand field samplers used in actual operating conditions

Cooling tower operators are currently confronted with a variety of contemporary chemical treatment and chemical/physical control processes as vendors of chemicals and equipment attempt to fill the vacuum created by the regulatory restriction of chromate based programs from our industrial arsenal

Higher capital first costs were offset by innovative structural designs that reduced overall installed costs

and overload have been observed

storage and handling

Examples of evaluations of current conditions and life expectancy projections are provided for cooling towers owned by Appalachian Power Co

The predicted maximum drift deposition differs by two orders of magnitude

As stress varies

dropping the theoretical cold water temperature limit to the ambient dew point

Test results and operating experience are included

For the past several decades

millions of dollars are spent in repairing ice damaged cooling towers