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News Release from: ACK Solutions | Subject: RP Adams
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 09 November 2006
Reduced cooling tower blow-down saves
water
Dublin based ACK Solutions now offers opportunities for significant water usage reduction in process companies using cooling towers
Dublin based ACK Solutions now offers opportunities for significant water reduction in process companies using cooling towers ACK Solutions now represent RP Adams, a New York based company who are part of the Serfilco group of companies, for the whole of Ireland
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 8 Nov 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Adams automatic self cleaning strainer systems have an enviable track record in the area of cleaning cooling tower flows for process companies.
Many systems installed in the 1960s are still in operation today.
Using these systems companies with cooling towers will save money in the following ways.
* Reduced water consumption.
* Reduced chemical consumption.
* Higher cooling tower efficiency.
* Less plant maintenance and downtime.
* Reduced labour costs.
* Higher performance from downstream plant.
* Less scaling.
* Longer life from reverse osmosis filtration.
* Increased plant life.
Although cooling towers come in many shapes and sizes, they all basically act as air scrubbers by spraying the water from your process over a series of baffles or similar material.
As the water travels down through the tower, it impacts successive layers, which break the water droplets apart, exposing more and more surface area.
Simultaneously ambient air is either forced or induced, usually in a counterflow or cross flow direction, contacting the water and removing the excess heat energy.
Because it scrubs the air of particulates, organic matter can grow on the surfaces of the tower, occasionally breaking free and entering the cooling system.
Conductivity controllers can control TDS build-up in the water by blowing down at a pre-set level but this can be very wasteful of water especially if the cooling tower is located in a very dusty atmosphere.
Alan Keogh of ACK Solutions says: "These days water is too precious a commodity just to be blown down, if it can be sensibly used again.
Our automatically self cleaning strainers continuously remove dirt and unwanted debris common to cooling tower water thereby minimising equipment downtime and cooling tower chemical expenses.
These strainers are self cleaning and can be left unattended.
Maintenance requirements are minimal and a wide range of strainer sizes are available".
Please contact Alan Keogh at ACK Solutions to develop an application today.
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