Many cooling systems use water as cooling medium. They are found in public buildings, industrial production systems or power plants. Almost every cooling system using water is degraded by deposition, corrosion and microbiological fouling.

This book identifies the whole bunch of problems due to water cooling systems and proposes specific solutions to all of them. The authors have an expertise of over 20 years solving cooling water problems. In this book, they advise all practitioners which need to plan, buy or operate cooling systems.

FIRST PART

Pure Water
Natural Water
Analysis of Natural Water
Generalities
Pretreatment
SECOND PART
Conservation of the Raw Material: Water
Conservation of Energy
Conservation of Water and Treatment
History of the Cooling Water Treatment
Cooling Circuits
Fundamental Principles of Cooling Towers
Deposits and Their Treatment
Corrosion and Its Treatment
Microbiological Fouling and Its Treatment
Start-Up of Cooling Installations.