Water Treatment Essentials for Boiler Plant Operation / Edition 1

by Robert G. Nunn

Overview

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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. You get technical details of water treatment in a clear, precise, and easy-to-understand manner to help you handle daily concerns. It includes helpful suggestions on how to calculate amounts of chemical to be used in steam boilers, cooling towers, and ion exchange equipment; discusses scale, corrosion, algae growth, microbiological growth, and the chemicals and equipment used to control these problems; covers pumps, pump calculations, hydronic systems, control devices, and treatments; and much more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780070482197
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	12/01/1996
Edition description:	List
Pages:	225
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.90(d)

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Table of Contents

Fundamentals.Cooling Systems.Measurements.Tower Problems.Tower Treatments.Control Devices.Hydronics Systems.Steam Facts.Steam Boilers.Pumps.Principles of Ion Exchange Softening.Gadgets.

Editorial Reviews

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.

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