Marley/SPX Seminar: Understanding Cooling Tower Hydraulics and Energy Savings

Cummins-Wagner & Marley/SPX are pleased to bring you a ½ day seminar on Understanding Cooling Tower Hydraulics and Energy Savings: May 23rd, 9am – 1pm.

Registration is closed.

Approved for 4 PDH credits. Lunch will be provided. 

Topics to be Covered:

Cooling Tower Hydraulics: 

Troubleshooting hydraulic issues on cooling towers, explain cooling towers possible hydraulic configurations, problems that arise, and best practices to help prevent issues.

• Tower Configurations
  • Inlet piping choices
  • Outlet flow types
  • Equalizer and flume designs
  • Bypass designs
• Hydraulic Issues
  • Hot Water Basin Overflowing
  • Makeup Constant On
  • Pump Cavitation
  • Cold Water Basin Overflowing
• Piping Best Practices
  • NPSH & Pump Cavitation
  • Tower Pumping & Suction Line
  • Chiller Cooling Tower Configurations

Variable Flow over Multiple Cooling Towers for Energy Savings: 

Explains how significant energy savings can be achieved and how to avoid common mistakes when designing a system for and implementing variable flow.

• What is the science behind and the potential benefit of variable flow?
• Under what design conditions will variable flow work and not work?
• What are some of the common mistakes made in implementing variable flow?
• What options should I consider adding to my cooling tower to enhance the capability for variable flow?
• Are there cooling tower designs inherently better at performing variable flow?
• What are the risks of reducing flow too much?
• How low can I reduce the flow and still avoid these risks?

Free Cooling System Design and Implementation: 

Explains how significant energy savings can be achieved through free cooling and how to avoid common mistakes when designing a free cooling system.

• Understanding free cooling and its benefits and implications on system design
• Evaluation of the different types of free cooling systems
• Designing a free cooling system that’s best for your project
  • What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a plate heat exchanger in a free cooling  system?
  • How can free cooling conditions impact cooling tower selection? Is it best to allow summer or maximum heat load conditions to determine cooling tower selection for free cooling?
  • What are the pitfalls of not considering winter humidity levels when designing a free cooling system?
• Free cooling operations and tips
  • What are the dangers of running lower flow rates during free cooling and winter operations?
  • How will this limit free cooling payback and energy savings?

Space will be limited, please RSVP by May 7, 2018, to Angel Magalis: 410-792-4230 amagalis@cummins-wagner.com.