Cooling Towers.
How does mineral scaling impact cooling towers?
An online search for this question will yield over 2 million results. The severity of mineral buildup in cooling tower equipment and there components is a substantial and serious maintenance issue.
Phrases such as:
- “drastically reduces normal heat exchange levels”
- “reduces the efficiency of the cooling tower, increase the risk of corrosion, and damage to equipment”
- “The formation of scale deposits can significantly impact the efficiency of cooling systems, increase energy consumption, and lead to equipment failure.”
are all commonly known issues in maintaining these expensive building support equipment.
Chemicals will absolutely work to descale your cooling towers... you are passing an acid (or variation thereof) through your equipment, so naturally it will descale something like minerals since acids also corrode metal...
Using chemicals to descale cooling towers has to be the best answer, right?
If your thought process goes to “chemical treatments have been used for decades so what’s the problem?” Take another look at the process of injection chemicals into your building’s equipment support lines. Requiring enough time (but not too much) for chemicals to loosen and corrode mineral scale build up, then flush out these water lines with enough clean water to get all of the chemicals out of your equipment (these chemicals then go into the common water systems), plus labor, equipment downtime, and some other consideration we are probably missing. Is this really a sensible approach knowing there is a more cost effective and proven system? Vulcan anti-scale return on investment, client feedback.
You could just use the Vulcan Descaler.
greentech to manage mineral scaling concerns
Install over your pipe lines and let science and nature take care of the entire descaling process.
Even if your internal and external components are crystal clean at the end of the chemical descaling process, as soon a 1mm of scale buildup interferes with energy transfer rates as much as 15% extra energy is demanded to maintain the same output capacity (based on research lab studies). The Vulcan descaler proprietary technology continuously descales your cooling tower, water pipe infrastructure, other connected equipment and your entire building. Contact us for a holistic building wide implementation plan: 412-848-5058 |
Putting aside the environmental repercussions
Even if you are not motivated by environmental laws and encouragements; the idea of having to manually descale a cooling tower system when you can simply install a device that automatically descales without additional labor, chemicals, resins, filters or consumable byproducts (other than 2.5 watts of energy) could be viewed as similar to installing lead water pipes instead of copper, PVC, PEX because it has been done for decades. Vulcan anti-scale is a greentech solution to manage mineral scaling concerns.
scale is part of a much larger problem
Mineral scale issues in cooling towers is about more than maximizing equipment efficiency. Water borne pathogens use mineral scale buildup as a breeding ground and food source. CDC: “Scale, corrosion, sediment controls, and system cleaning are critical for cooling tower operations and Legionnaires' disease prevention.”
The Vulcan anti-scale solution continuously removes and prevents unnecessary lime scale buildup using propriety technology developed over 40+ years.
"The Vulcan anti-scale solution was installed to solve serious scaling problems in the power plant's cooling towers"
Huaneng Power International
"Water distribution nozzles in the cooling tower to solve remove mineral the scaling on heat exchanger surface"
Delphi Technologies
"Saved almost $400,000 using the Vulcan descaling technology instead of using a chemical system to solve their descaling problems."
Holcim Cement Factory
"Vulcan descaler replaced our chemical treatments" more reviews from cooling tower clients
“More than a third of New York City’s greenhouse gas emissions come from buildings over 25,000 square feet.”
Proven Eco Technology.
For over 40 year and across 70 countries this technology has been used to eliminate mineral scale deposits from vacation homes, motels, hotels, resorts and all other types of vacation environments without using traditional water softening systems, salt, resins, chemicals and other physical filtration processes.
take a look at the tech behind this ECO mineral descaler
"NYC Accelerator (decarbonize NYC by 2050, Local Law 97) has allowed this technology to be part of an implementation solution to help decarbonize New York City buildings due the significant impact that mineral scaling has on energy efficiencies."
Waslix, LLC
