Cooling Water Quality
Cooling Water Quality
(OP)
Good day,
We currently use surface water as a cooling medium for our turbine condensers. The water is passed through a strainer prior to being fed to the condenser. These strainers are frequently plugging, and it was suggested to increase the mesh size to reduce the frequency of pluggage. Where could I find some rules of thumb on the largest practical particle sizes for different tube diameters on heat exchangers for tubeside fluids? Any help you can offer would be much appreciated.
DS
We currently use surface water as a cooling medium for our turbine condensers. The water is passed through a strainer prior to being fed to the condenser. These strainers are frequently plugging, and it was suggested to increase the mesh size to reduce the frequency of pluggage. Where could I find some rules of thumb on the largest practical particle sizes for different tube diameters on heat exchangers for tubeside fluids? Any help you can offer would be much appreciated.
DS





RE: Cooling Water Quality
I know this advice is a little ambiguous; my apologies. Best of luck in your endeavors!
JCD
RE: Cooling Water Quality
My suggestion: keep your present screens in place (at sometime, somebody had specified them). But, put some coarser screens upstream for 2-stage filtration.
RE: Cooling Water Quality
what exactly is causing the plugging. Is it solids in the water, macro-biofouling ? Some of these problems can be solved without changing the mesh size. If you need more info on this please send me an e-mail and I'll contact you with a friend of mine who is a specialist on the subject.
Edwin Muller
KEMA Power Generation & Sustainables
Arnhem, The Netherlands
E-mail e.f.muller@kema.nl
Internet: http://www.kema-water.nl
RE: Cooling Water Quality
RE: Cooling Water Quality