In recent months the price of sulfuric acid has skyrocketed due to a variety of domestic and global factors. This commodity chemical has been a staple for the treatment of recirculating cooling water, ...

While once-through cooling was a common feature at many power plants in the last century, environmental regulations regarding intake and discharge issues have basically forced a transition to cooling ...

Concentrated sulfuric acid is often used to prevent calcium-based scale formation on condenser and heat exchanger tube surfaces in power plant evaporative cooling water systems. Unfortunately, the ...

In cooling water chemistry for power plants, it is not enough to control one or two of the major chemistry issues. Successful treatment requires simultaneous control of corrosion, scale, and ...

Richard Jansen van Vuuren Engineering News Features Reporter An eleven-cell mechanical forced-draught cooling tower has been ordered from GEA Aircooled Systems for the phosphoric-acid plant at the ...

No building should make people sick; however, because of poor maintenance and cleaning efforts, the water in cooling towers can serve as the breeding ground for a variety of bacteria. One such ...

As the Iowa Health and Human Services Department and the Marshall County Public Health team work to find and handle the sources of a Legionella outbreak in Marshalltown, KCCI reached out to a Des ...