Reuse Lagoon Water for Cooling Tower Water?
Reuse Lagoon Water for Cooling Tower Water?
(OP)
I am currently working on a project to reuse the stormwater collected in a lagoon onsite. My first idea was to reuse it as tote-cleaning water but many water quality & operations issues have come up. Since the cooling tower water is treated already for bugs could the answer to my problem be reusing the lagoon water as cooling tower makeup water? Does anyone have any thoughts/experience/concerns?
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CHE51
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CHE51





RE: Reuse Lagoon Water for Cooling Tower Water?
Regarding bugs (microbiological activity), chlorinating the water as far upstream as possible should take care of that ... and good control in your recirculating cooling water. Of course, if the storm pond make-up water has lots of "bug food" in it (ammonia nitrogen, COD etc), it may require treatment or it may not be suitable for adding to cooling tower makeup.
Good luck.
RE: Reuse Lagoon Water for Cooling Tower Water?
RE: Reuse Lagoon Water for Cooling Tower Water?
Regarding "bugs" .. I guess you have to define the water quality that you want, define the water quality that you have, and see if a treatment to make the two meet is suitable and ecnonomical. It depends what you need
... you could possibly use nano-filtration to remove bugs (if the filter doesnt get plugged with TSS, or scale etc or need pretreatment), or just chlorinate it well .. etc .. it
If using it for cleaning totes, perhaps the rinse water could still go to cooling tower after it has done its tote cleaning ... unless it creates water high in other undesirable contaminants ...
Use as cooling tower make-up may be best bet?
Cheers & Good luck//