88-10: Cooling Tower Asbestos Abatement or Close Encounters with EPA, OSHA Fan Performance

88-10: Cooling Tower Asbestos Abatement or Close Encounters with EPA, OSHA Fan PerformanceEPA and OSHA have promulgated rules and regulations for protecting our environment and people living and working under hazardous conditions. References are made to toxic substances such as PCB's, acids, chemicals and asbestos, etc. While we in the cooling tower industry realize the use of asbestos is not particularly dangerous, the regulations make no provision for this and to comply with all statues, apparently over kill must be utilized. However, it

Technologies that are coming to the forefront from include membrane bioreactors (MBR) and moving bed bioreactors (MBBR)

The cooling tower works in wet-dry mode during the hot summer months and in dry mode other times of the year

Identifying

Examples of fracture failures of a wide variety of components are presented

cooling tower manufacturers or suppliers of drift eliminators

Two case studies are reported on cooling towers in a utility and a petrochemical plant

Cooling technology providers are challenged to develop sound cybersecurity plans to ensure that both their own internal systems and their clients' systems are protected

Typically CMIT/MIT is dosed into cooling systems as a liquid

in one step

characterizes their contaminants

A discussion on the mechanical and electrical advantages

Aside from such possible questions as which of several offerings is more conservatively rated or represents higher quality materials (questions which are outside the scope of this paper) there remains the question of which offering represents the lowest total cost as the buyer seas it