TP16-17: Polyvinyl Chloride Use in Cooling Towers Tower Testing

TP16-17: Polyvinyl Chloride Use in Cooling Towers Tower TestingPolyvinyl Chloride (PVC) is a unique material in cooling tower history. It has been used for many and varied components over a long period of time. This paper is intended primarily as a discussion of the suitability and history of Polyvinyl Chloride material in evaporative cooling systems. What material properties are important to proper application? What are its limitations? These questions will be explored in this paper.

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The chemical tracers discussed represent a significant improvement over compounds previously used in cooling water applications

We will discuss one of the newest and most important of those emergent products today

metal specimen into a “coupon rack” and exposing it to the flowing water for a period of time

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Baseline data indicated severe biological fouling

whether or not these performance problems are occurring

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a transit time sonic flow meter and a dyedilution technique

soil-water samplers (wells) were placed along a distance gradient to Little Bayou Creek

The mechanism and kinetics of biodegration and the impact of structure-specific biodegradation rates of isomers on inhibitor consumption in power plant applications is discussed