69-11: A New Look at Cooling Towers for the Power Generation IndustryThe present trend in the design of power generation facilities is toward increasing size and capacity, longer life, and improved appearance. In the past, heat has been dissipated primarily by once through water from natural lakes and rivers. However, the supply of this precious natural resource has dwindled to a dangerously low level and is no longer able to handle the huge heat removal chores of industry without alarming thermal effects.

Maintenance of Cooling Towers usually poses quite a number of occupational/personal safety challenges

The paper will discuss how the Binary Cooling Tower (BCT) can be utilized in evaporative cooling applications to optimize recycle and reuse of circulating water system designs without the risks usually associated with high TDS water

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Special considerations must be addressed in regard to thermal expansion and contract when fiberglass pipe is anchored

declining fresh water supplies and the trend toward a more environmentally friendly approach have served to increase the level of interest in various types of water treatment devices

and treating surface water is high

regulatory officials

With the passage of time

but also of outside services and ecological systems

Such legislation has resulted in the steady de-emphasis of chromate-based treatments in favor of more environmentally safe programs

Unique designs will be discussed including: low noise applications

is nothing new and has been applied in many installations