Water Treatment Essentials for Boiler Plant Operation
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Make sure your boiler runs at maximum efficiency! Do you know how much make-up water you need in your boiler? How much blowdown? How to calculate the amount of chemical you need to add, and when/ This guide provides answers to these and many more questions about water treatment in industrial plants. It gives you a solid understanding of water treatment problems and solutions, so you can improve treatment efficiency and communicate more effectively with water treatment specialists and chief engineers. The guide presents technical details of water treatment in a clear, precise, and easy-to-understand manner to help you with your daily concerns. It includes helpful suggestions for the plant operator on how to calculate amounts of chemical to be used in steam boilers, cooling towers, and ion exchange equipment. It also discusses scale, corrosion, algae growth, microbiological growth, and the chemicals and equipment used to control these problems. And it covers pumps, poump calculations, hydronic systems, control devices, and treatments. Booknews Provides heating and air-conditioning plant operators, and owner- users who are not trained operators, a basic knowledge of the water side of the equipment they are responsible for. Covers cooling towers, hot water boilers, and steam boiler and their associated equipment. Explains such factors as how much water and blowdown are needed in a boiler, calculating the amount of chemical to add and when, scale, corrosion, and algae growth, and methods for dealing with problems. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
PrefaceIntroduction1Ch. 1Fundamentals11Ch. 2Cooling Systems27Ch. 3Measurements37Ch. 4Tower Problems49Ch. 5Tower Treatments61Ch. 6Control Devices83Ch. 7Hydronic Systems95Ch. 8Steam Facts111Ch. 9Steam Boilers131Ch. 10Pumps157Ch. 11Principles of Ion Exchange Softening181Ch. 12Gadgets199App. AConversion Factors205App. BUseful Physical Constants211App. CResistance of Valves and Fittings to Flow of Fluids213App. DPressure Drop of Water Through Schedule 40 Steel Pipe215Index217
