Programs
Start Date
August 7, 2024
August 7, 2024
Course Visits: 1,524
Duration
20 Hours
20 Hours
Course contents.
- Cooling Tower construction.
- Functions of a cooling tower
- Types of cooling towers and their applications : closed air-cooled systems, evaporative cooling towers-induced and forced draft, counter flow versus cross flow .
- Materials of construction .
- Efficiency of latest types of cooling towers and the cost savings associated with them
- Cooling Tower Fundamentals .
- Heat transfer surfaces – design and maintenance .
- Water distribution system and effect on performance .
- Cooling tower fill performance .
- Air recirculation and the effect on performance .
- Causes of performance deterioration.
3 – Control systems .
- Monitoring capacity including use of computers .
- Water treatment control .
- Latest Fan control options .
- Specifications .
- Using controls for cost reduction .
4 -How to inspect industrial / commercial cooling tower .
- Year round operation .
- Motor, fan and clearance .
- Nozzles .
- Fill
- Solids filtration efficiency .
- Fouling, Scaling, corrosion .
- How to assess your existing cooling tower .
5 – Cooling Tower Maintenance Guidelines .
- What causes deterioration of cooling towers .
- Standard maintenance procedures .
- Troubleshooting .
- Seasonal operation .
- Startup / shutdown .
- Standard maintenance procedures .
- Do’s and don’t for efficient operation .
- Example of cost reduction through preventive maintenance .
- Life cycle cost analysis .
- Economics of rebuilding and upgrading for process improvement and its comparison to replacement .
- Upgrading for capacity improvement, energy conservation, water conservation and overall efficiency – wood and steel towers .
- Minimizing cost pf rebuilding, upgrading and replacement options.
- Specifying retrofit, upgrade or replacement work .