Cooling Towers is a part of the engineer's job, and it's where the engineer can find different problems.
When blowdown occurs, circulation water and treatment chemicals are also lost along with the solid waste, so it’s important to monitor this closely. If your cooling tower requires too much blowdown, it could be an indication that the water treatment system isn’t running as efficiently as it could be or feeding the cooling tower water pure enough for the process.
An effective cooling tower water treatment system will provide the right quality of water , the correct circulation chemistry , allowing it to run efficiently, avoiding problematic deposition, and maintaining a manageable amount of blowdown. This helps conserve the amount of any makeup water or chemicals needed and results in a higher-solid waste.
The Most Common Problem of Cooling Towers Operations is Loss of Water & Chemicals by Increasing the Cooling Towers Blowdown Rate. Since cooling towers remove heat by the process of evaporation, it’s no surprise that they, in turn, can use lots of water to make up the difference.
Depending on the quality of makeup water being added to the cooling tower and the operation efficiency of the unit, large amounts of solids can remain after evaporation occurs, causing an increased need to “blow down” or remove solid waste and dissolved solids buildup from the circulation water before it has a chance to scale or corrode equipment.
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An effective cooling tower water treatment system will provide the right quality of water , the correct circulation chemistry , allowing it to run efficiently, avoiding problematic deposition, and maintaining a manageable amount of blowdown. This helps conserve the amount of any makeup water or chemicals needed and results in a higher-solid waste.
Some solutions to decreasing the amount of cooling tower blowdown might include:
- Improved feed water filtration
- Higher-quality side-stream filtration
- Increased cycle of concentration
- Maintaining better makeup water chemistry by removing scale forming and corrosion causing impurities.
- Change or closely manage the cooling tower feed chemistry program
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B.Sc. in an Engineering discipline, preferably Chemical/Petroleum engineering.
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A reactor was fitted with a bypass
(Figure 1 ), The remotely operated valves A, B, and C were interlocked so that C had to be open before A or B could be closed.
It was found that the valves leaked, so hand-operated isolation valves (a, b, and c) were installed in series with them (Figure 2).
After closing A and B, the operators were instructed to go outside and close the corresponding hand valves a and b. This destroyed the interlocking.
One day, an operator could not get A and B to close. He had forgotten to open C. He decided that A and B were faulty and closed a and b. Flow stopped, The tubes in the furnace were over- heated. One of them burst, with no lives loss
Lesson Learned
Any Plant Modifications even minor ones shoukd undergo only through the Plant MOC ( Management of Change ) Procedure Only and the human error should be taken in consideration when you do the MOC PHA, also Updating the SOP is part of MOC Implementation process ( Document Update ) and training of all concerned about the New Changes,
also the PSSR ( Pre Start Safety Review ) should be done prior the actual implementation of the MOC to address any human or process hazards
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