Title: Profile The Entire Operating Range: Treatment in Context 2
Learner Objectives:
The learner will review the importance of evaluating the entire operating range of a cooling system to craft an optimum treatment in context.
Content/Topic Outline:
Evaluating only a "worst case" condition can miss potential problems and result in a less than optimum treatment
Troubleshooting requires evaluating the system under actual conditions
Parameters interact to affect treatment performance and potential problems
Presenter:
Robert J Ferguson
Presentation Description:
In the dark ages of water treatment, most treatment programs were centered on the "worst case" condition, and many treatment programs were based upon a one size fits all formulation. Computer modeling in the 1980's expanded the evaluations to include concentration ratio and pH range evaluations. Evaluations were limited to traditional cooling water scales and neglected those, such as barium sulfate, that can become troublesome at higher cycles of concentration and when less than desirable water sources must be used, or blended, for makeup water. This paper discusses crafting a treatment based upon the system fixed and controllable parameters using in many cases, an expanded survey, and what many term a "holistic" approach to survey, evaluation, treatment selection and implementation, service, and troubleshooting.
Presenter Bio:
Rob Ferguson pioneered the application of computers and digital processing to water treatment beginning in the 1970's and progressed through the ranks at several major water treatment service companies. He is proud to be a Ray Baum Award honoree, and to have received the first ever AWT Innovation Award, for a product or concept that mover the technology needle and was beneficial to AWT members, and the industry. Rob cofounded French Creek Software in 1989 and wrote much of the software in use by the industry since the early 1970's in past careers, and in the past 32 years with French Creek.