How to Evaluate the Performance of your Cooling Tower
Once you found out that you have installed all the necessary cooling tower that your plant needs, it’s time for you then to learn how to evaluate the performance of your cooling tower.
No matter how good and expensive your cooling towers if it’s not well maintained, it will eventually lead to its poor performance. These massive cooling towers have important role in ensuring its performance and efficiency, bear in mind that their operation is crucial. Failure to maintain and manage the temperature of your machine can lead to disaster such as fire, affecting other industrial procedures in the process. Every part of each cooling tower varies in performance, its massive fans and fan decks enables air to circulate within the tower itself. It also expels the air through its exhaust vents, such fans uses gearboxes powered by drive shafts and motors.
Damages to any of the cooling tower parts, especially if exposed to high temperatures, high pressures, humidity and moist conditions poor performance would then be inevitable. It is commonly known that metal easily corrodes if exposed to too much moisture and if not properly coated as well. It can only be treated with anti-corrosive chemicals, or flushed using the Nitrogen gas.
Gearboxes parts could malfunction as well which will affect the cooling towers performance. Its drift eliminators can be brittle or become congested, and its nozzles can be broken or blocked as well. Its fill should then be replaced, seeing that is continued exposure to heat and water can wear out its components. Which eventually makes the cooling tower ineffective and malfunctioned over time, therefore every various components should be properly taken care of.
Neglecting to evaluate and maintain any of the cooling tower’s parts will become less efficient in functioning properly for the power plant. Maintaining the value of each part should be fully stressed, knowing that the cost of engaging a massive repair of the cooling towers entire system will be a great pain in your pocket. This will require more down time of layups, adding to its cost, which will later on present its own set of dangers. Dangers should be expected to happen, such as rapid corrosion on the metal parts once oxygen is introduced into its system.
Proper maintenance, continuous monitoring as well as constant evaluation, will greatly help the good performance of the plant’s cooling tower system.
