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An evaluation of water treatment technologies piloted at LANL to improve cooling tower water efficiency.
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| Field | Value |
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| Title | An evaluation of water treatment technologies piloted at LANL to improve cooling tower water efficiency. |
| Creator | Vardaro-Charles, Patricia |
| Subject | LA-UR-01-1802 Evaporative cooling tower systems Cooling tower water demand Silica solubility Scaling Water treatment technologies Fouled heat transfer surfaces Cooling towers. Water efficiency. Incrustations. Descaling. |
| Description | A Professional Project Report Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Master of Water Resources, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico February 23, 2001. This paper presents an evaluation of three technologies piloted at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for improving cooling tower water efficiency. High silica content (average of 88 mg/L) in LANL source water requires frequent blow down in cooling tower systems to avoid accumulation of silica scale on heat transfer surfaces. At concentrations above 150 mg/L, silica scaling on heat transfer surfaces can occur to the extent scale causes a reduction in cooling effectiveness and can lead... Los Alamos National Laboratory, an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer, is operated by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract W-7405-ENG-36. By acceptance of this article, the publisher recognized that the U.S. Government retains a nonexclusive, royalty-free license to publish or reproduce the published form of this contribution, or to allow others to do so, for U.S. Government purposes. Los Alamos National Laboratory requests that the... |
| Date | 2010-09-17T16:48:57Z 2010-09-17T16:48:57Z 2010-09-17 |
| Type | Other |
| Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/1928/11214 |
| Language | en_US |
