Published by Asanka Wimalarathne, Area Manager at Wasser Kraft Tech (SUEZ - Water Technologies & Solutions Channel Partner)
Is there a way to treat cooling tower water without chemicals? If so please advice bellow.
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Published by Prince Prakash Jeba Kumar J, Scientist at National Institute of Ocean Technology
Over my career in water treatment, many of these no chemical approaches have come and gone. Every time I have been asked about a new one; my response is the same. "Have the vendor supply a pay if it works trial of 180 days." They need to write the objectives and what will be achieved and the benchmarks of success. There must be at least 2 measurable KPI's. If someone claims they have an answer, let them prove it without you footing 100% of the risk for their bold claims.
Published by Terry Scheurman, President at Applied Specialties, Inc.
The solution to your problem is to use filtered water for cooling, as described in my research article. Attached other article which has cost estimates for a desalination plant intake & adopting the same technology for solving your problem.
Published by Prince Prakash Jeba Kumar J, Scientist at National Institute of Ocean Technology
The honest short answer is "No'. Here is another way to view your question. If there were a way, all of the power plants, refineries, major chemical plants round the World would already be doing so. They use hundreds of millions of dollars on cooling water chemicals each year. If all or any of these no chemical treatment methods were cost effective, those companies would be using it.
Published by Terry Scheurman, President at Applied Specialties, Inc.
Filtration and UV disinfections is the most affective way of dealing with this. Please get in touch if you need more info and we can provide you with a complete solution.
Published by Beth abbasi
You can go for Advanced oxidation Process with Ozone and UV, If you are reusing the water to Boiler feed, it is preferably to be treated completely rather than going for AOP. If the Scaling is not a problem you can reuse the water for 3 to 4 cycles with AOP treatment and get in a new batch of water
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Published by Gokul Ragupathi, Marketing and Business Development Executive at Confident Engineering India Private Limited
We have a cooling tower technology without chemicals working in USA for more than 10 years.
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Published by Enrique Garcia
Most respondents have addressed the issue of prevention of biofilm, however you also need to consider scaling. Rafael suggests side filtration which could help if you remove divalent and trivalent cations (i.e. calcium, magnesium, manganese, iron). However it is normally more cost effective to use chemicals to improve solubility of these scale forming ions.
Published by Ian Pearson
Hi Asanka, please take a look at the solutions HPNow provides: https://www.hpnow.eu/industrial-water-treatment/
Our systems generate hydrogen peroxide directly on site (so no need to transport or handle chemicals), which breaks down into water and oxygen. Do get in touch if you want to know more: https://www.hpnow.eu/contact/
Published by Jan Jacob Mekes
I think overall, the answer is no.
Published by Don Sharpe
We have done several projects in which we use UV disinfection which can easiliy inactivate legionella as well as reducing biofilm by inactivating bio film producing bacteria. For more info check our website www.vgepro.com or send an mail to ruudvandeven@vgebv.nl.
Published by Ruud van de Ven
I have a simple one time installation peoplesnrg@gmail.com
Published by Bill Peoples
Well, I'm biased, but ozone is really good at killing things and reverts to oxygen...just sayin! :-)
Published by Marianna "Yana" DeMyer, CEO at Roving Blue®, Inc.
Ozone does blast bacteria to bits, but ozone become highly corrosive to metals in the system.
Published by Don Sharpe
Have you thought of side-stream Filtration... MF or UF... NF or RO will certainly do the trick.
We have a product that is 100% organic and bio-degradable.
This product - SOLUTEK - has been doing the job for over 20 years now.
SOLUTEK has a multi faceted use profile.
Published by E. Hugh Pettman, Employee at Biophysics Research Pte. Ltd.
With limited detail of your requirements I am anticipating a suitable solution.
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Published by Mike Page
What are you treating for? Not many choices if no chemicals. UV but tricky. A touch of chlorine wouldn't hurt.
Published by Joseph Cotruvo, President at Joseph Cotruvo & Associates, Water , Environment and Public Health
Absolutely. We have success on it since 10 years ago. Results in the UK. I can send you all the info. Please contact me at ceo@h2otitanium.com (www.h2otitanium.com).
Published by Vicente M. Picó Puchades, CEO at Vann World SL
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Published by Asanka Wimalarathne, Area Manager at Wasser Kraft Tech (SUEZ - Water Technologies & Solutions Channel Partner)