Water mechanically circulated

Drift Loss or Windage Loss the amount of water lost from a tower as fine droplets entrained in the leaving air. For an atmospheric type tower this is usually 0.1-0.2% of the total water circulated. For mechanical draft towers it is usually less. 

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Evaporation losses are about 1% of the circulation for every 10°F of cooling range. Windage or drift losses are 0.3-1.0% for natural draft towers and 0.1-0.3% for mechanical draft. Usually the salt content of the circulating water is limited to 3-7 times that of the makeup. Blowdown of 2.5-3% of the circulation accordingly is needed to maintain the limiting salt concentration. 

Materials of Construction May be constructed of wood, metal or concrete. The structure must be designed to withstand wind or earthquake stress, dead loads such as weight of tower and circulating water and vibrations from mechanical equipment. Constructed of thin concrete shells that have good wind resistance. 

Plate and frame heat exchangers are also very susceptible to problems of scale or other types of fouling, resulting in a rapid falloff in the flow of circulating water. Complete blockage may occur, but the individual plates can be easily split apart on the frame and mechanically or chemically cleaned. 

The p-jump unit produced by Hi-Tech Limited (PJ-55 pressure-jump) is based on a design by Davis and Gutfreund (1976) and is shown in Fig. 4.7, with a schematic representation in Fig. 4.8. A mechanical pressure release valve permits observation after 100 /us. There is no upper limit to observation time. Changes in turbidity, light absorption, and fluorescence emission can be measured in the range of 200-850 nm. The PJ-55 is thermostated by circulating water from an external circulator through the base of the module. The temperature in the cell is continuously monitored with a thermocouple probe. A hydraulic pump assembly is used to build up a pressure of up to 40.4 MPa. A mechanical valve release causes the pressure build-up to be applied to the solution in the observation cell. The instrument has a dead time of 100 /us. A fast response UV/fluorescence... 

Drift is the water that is lost from the tower as fine droplets entrained in the exhaust air. For mechanical draft towers, the value is less than 0.2% of the circulating water, but for natural draft towers the drift ranges between 0.3-1.0%. 

A condenser tube cleaning system performs mechanical cleaning of the circulating water side of the tubes. This cleaning, along with ehemieal treatment of the circulating water, reduces fouling and helps to maintain the thermal performanee of the condenser. 

Calcium carbonate is usually added during the batch fermentation to control the pH, and the highest concentration of lactic acid (12-15 %) is limited by the precipitation of calcium lactate from the broth. Temperature control is maintained with heat transfer coils using circulating water, and the cells are retained in a mixed suspension by mechanical agitators or... 

The results of an AES point analysis of corrosion products on a surface is shown in Fig. 7. A stainle.ss steel 304 surface had been in a high-temperature (290°C) circulating water loop in alkaline conditions for 500 h of corrosion testing. An earlier depth profile carried out over a large (2 mm diameter) area had not revealed any of the Cr surface enrichment which might have been expected of stainless steels under these conditions. However, selected-area analysis of some of the unsputtered oxide was more successful. The many individual crystallites on the surface were determined to be Fe-Ni oxides with no detectable Cr. However, the featureless oxide underlying the crystals was found to contain significant concentrations of Cr. The mechanism of formation of each oxide is different the base oxide forms by solid-state diffusion, but the crystallites form by dis.solution/precipitation, a process that clearly does not involve Cr. 

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