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Cooling Water Treatment

Cooling Water Treatment

Cooling Water Treatment

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Hello All,

I am new to this forum and would appreciate any help available.  First of all, my background is in biotechnology, and I have been doing some research lately on wastewater treatment.

I am trying to determine water treatment cost estimates per 1000 gallons of makeup water for a cooling tower.  I know that  there are many variables involved but need somewhere to start.  I have searched throughout the web to no avail.  I would like to do some financial modeling and I dont have any benchmarks from where to start.  I have that the water treatment industry is approx $2.2B and i figure that about 70% is used in cooling water.  If anyone can provide some prices that i can work from I would be very appreciative.  Indusryt web links would also be very helpful!  Hope everyone is well.

Best,
Peter

RE: Cooling Water Treatment

Your best bet would be to contact a Water Treatment company in your area... Nalco, GE Betz, Rochester Midland...

Your costs will vary depending on the application. ie. amount of blowdown, tower temperatures, demade for biocides etc...

RE: Cooling Water Treatment

Peter,

I worked for Nalco and Ashland Chemical.  I treated one of the largest cooling towers in the world - Texaco Henry Hub Gas Plant.  Henry Hub is the benchmark for Natural Gas prices.

Your answer for treating cooling tower water - whatever it takes to get the business.  I'll increase costs next year.

Keep in mind that every cooling tower is different.  And every plant manager is different.  Some may want to control corrosion rates at less than 1 MPY.  Others may want to reduce corrosion inhibitor costs and control at 5 MPY.

So there is no industry standard when you are considered a snake oil salesperson!

Todd
www.oxilume.com

RE: Cooling Water Treatment

biotracker, What's the application? What quality do you want and need? How much do you need? Are you going to recycle and reuse or dispose? Once you answer these basic questions, You'll have narrowed it down to a point where you can begin looking at costs.

Remember, there's a large difference between raw river water or something else and de-ionized or R/O water.

Hope this helps.
saxon

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