Cooling Towers: Water Conditioning
e-Learning
About the eLearning Course
In this course, you will learn about water conditioning and its effect on the efficiency and upkeep of cooling tower units.
Target Audience
Operations personnel who require a fundamental understanding of knowledge to operate and maintain facilities. Also suitable for maintenance and technician personnel whether new to their roles or seasoned experts looking to enhance their skills.You Will Learn
Participants will learn how to:
- Describe the properties of water, including physical, chemical, and heat properties.
- List the different types of impurities in cooling water.
- Explain how cycles of concentration are used to measure solids concentration.
- Describe the operation of sedimentation basins.
- Explain the process of clarification.
- Outline how fouling deposits are removed by filtration.
- Define scale and describe how it is formed in cooling towers.
- Describe how water softening removes scale.
- Explain how ion exchange removes scale.
- Describe how acidification controls scale.
- Describe the properties of corrosive water.
- List methods used to control corrosion.
- Explain the types of microorganisms found in cooling water and the effect they have on cooling towers.
- Describe the methods used to control microbiological growth.
- Describe the methods used to test for pH and dissolved solids in cooling water.
- Explain how chlorine and inhibitor levels are monitored.
- List the types of adjustments made to cooling tower systems to control water quality.
- Describe methods used to control ice in cooling towers and other system upsets.
