Huchler, L. A.
HP Water Management: Monitor cooling water quality – Part 2
Monitor cooling water quality – Part 2Operations personnel are responsible for monitoring cooling water to ensure system reliability. Core focus areas include testing water quality and chemical i..
HP Construction: Monitor cooling water quality – Part 1
Refineries and petrochemical plants use large volumes of water for indirect cooling. The cooling tower (Fig. 1) removes heat from water via evaporation and returns the water to the heat exchangers to ..
HP Water Management: Audit your deaerator performance
Deaerators remove dissolved oxygen from boiler feedwater to prevent corrosion of downstream components such as feedwater heaters, economizers and boilers. Dissolved oxygen has retrograde solubility, i..
HP Water Management: How to inspect the waterside of a fired boiler
Most refineries and chemical plants inspect the waterside of each fired boiler during the annual or bi-annual outage. The purpose of this inspection is to ensure that the corrosion and deposit control..
HP Water Management: Should you install an online hardness analyzer?
Manufacturers have improved the reliability of online hardness analyzers, increasing the feasibility to automate many water treatment units. The most common applications are boiler feedwater quality a..
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