Cooling Water Treatment

The properties that make water an efficient cooling medium are the same ones that make it a problem. As a solvent it picks up oxygen and carbon dioxide and corrodes system metallurgy. As it concentrates through cycles, dissolved ions exceed mineral solubility and scale forms. And as a medium that supports life, it fouls surfaces with biological growth. Every cooling water treatment program is a response to those three behaviors. 

This session works through the fundamentals of controlling them, and what proper treatment and control require to keep a cooling system delivering the heat transfer the process depends on.