14-26: CooliSS: A Modeling Tool for Scaling Prediction in Condenser Cooling Cooling Tower Conversion

14-26: CooliSS: A Modeling Tool for Scaling Prediction in Condenser Cooling Cooling Tower ConversionOne of the main issues of condenser open recirculating cooling systems is scaling. This can have high economic consequences due to a loss of thermal exchange, and increase of maintenance costs and potentially plant shutdown. To tackle this problem, EDF, which operates 30 condenser open cooling circuits in nuclear power plants in France, has developed a modeling computer program called CooliSS, to help optimize chemical treatment. CooliSS is based on a

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new methods of managing open industrial cooling water systems based on the actual stresses placed upon them have been developed in and evaluated in the field

it is demonstrated how this model can be effectively applied to both counterflow and parallel flow spray water-air flow arrangements in actual tower designs

performance can be engineered through a combination of cooling tower component sizing and heat recovery effectiveness

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but relatively few owners and specifiers of cooling towers appear to know what preservative treatment entails

Bacteria in Cooling Water systems must be controlled because bacteria attach to surfaces

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evaluation of proposals and selection of vendor

There are instances when an owner wants to assess the thermal performance of just an individual cell of a cooling tower as per ATC 105