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.
