Occasionally while servicing refrigeration equipment, technicians may come across a system utilizing a water-cooled condenser instead of an air-cooled condenser. Water is a much better heat transfer ...

Bob looks around the equipment room and identifies the condenser water pump; it is running and seems normal. He then goes to the cooling tower for a look. Water is going over the cooling tower and it ...

and the air-cooled condenser (ACC) in particular, than just the lack of available water (see sidebar). For instance, there are strong indicators that dry cooling applications are becoming a ...

Tubesheet compatibility presents another concern. If the condenser relies on brackish water or seawater as the cooling medium, the tubesheet should be made of steel with a higher corrosion ...

(Fig. 1 Functional principle of a water-cooled reflux condenser) Figure 1. Water cooled reflux system. Image Credit: Heidolph North America Air cooled: Reflux condensers with air cooling are available ...

and the necessary pumps to circulate district heating water through the condenser (Figure 1). The cooling fans on the ACC would be selectively shutdown to obtain the desired hot water temperature ...

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It is also the point where highly pure condensate can potentially come in contact with very impure cooling water via a condenser tube leak. The consequences literally can be catastrophic for plant ...

This thermal plant’s condenser is cooled using treated sewage from nearby cities, and demonstrates this way just how efficient even evaporative cooling towers can be. If the water budget is even ...