03-12: Cost Effective Cooling Tower Fan Vibration Monitoring Oxidizing Biocides

03-12: Cost Effective Cooling Tower Fan Vibration Monitoring Oxidizing BiocidesInstallation of a low cost vibration system is being deployed at Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant using accelerometers on cooling tower fan gearboxes. While this system does not have an automatic data gathering or vibration trip capability, the manual data is used to improve the reliability of the fans while reducing vibration levels and maintenance costs. Accelerometers are installed on the gearboxes perpendicular to the drive shaft and the cable runs

The cost of the calcium hypochlorite was relatively low

utilizing the most common sediment side stream filtration technologies

and their results will be delineated

This provides important information regarding the fate of the material in the system as well as the suitability of the biocide feed protocol selected

It will address and clarify terminology

A major factor in the success or failure of any cooling water treatment program is the control and monitoring strategy used

had been experiencing condenser fouling for over twenty years

Committee in 1958

seawater intake and returns basins

and blocking the line of sight between the control tower and the taxiway

Both velocity and surface temperature are duplicated in order to provide an identical environment for fouling and corrosion that is occurring in the plants equipment

Results show that ER using cooling tower and coil has an energy savings range between 40% to 90% higher than those of thermal wheel and run-around-coils