12-07: Fill Testing in Cooling Tower in Case of Fouling Issues Testing

12-07: Fill Testing in Cooling Tower in Case of Fouling Issues TestingAs a utility company, EDF operates 32 cooling towers in France. The cooling towers of EDF NPP are located in various places fed by rivers. They were designed to function with untreated raw water as make up. Sometimes we are applying acid treatments of the circulation water, against scaling. Last years, some towers suffered from important fouling issues and we had to clean, to remove and sometimes to change fills. EDF has to do the right choice when

Life expectancy predictions of wood cooling towers are accomplished with the aid of nondestructive and/or destructive testing of representative samples of structural members and their connections

and evaluation of fouling risk

Pultruded profiles dominate the cooling tower market as the material of choice for field erected cooling towers

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In order to rate them beforehand

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We will also examine the typical life cycle

The process defines the responsibilities of the roles of the service providers

The helper towers are now in commercial operation and recent field drift testing has validated the results of the R&D program

completely disassembled and inspected to determine how it performed in the harsh environment inside the cooling tower

This change has occurred due to concern about waste heat disposal and thermal pollution effects caused by traditional once through systems

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