How To Avoid Damaging Your Heat Exchangers

Just as the lungs and the heart of the human body keep the whole system together, the cooling towers and the heat exchangers are the ones making your cooling system work properly.

Cooling systems that rely on towers to dissipate heat, accomplish this by drawing huge volumes of air into the cooling tower as the water goes through the fill material on its way back to the basin. Because of the natural evaporative process, the heat is released from the water before the later reaches the basin. The water is afterwards re-circulated through the chiller and heat exchangers and back again.

The importance of the heat exchanger in this seemingly complicated process is vital that is why those in charge should take care of them as closely as possible. For this reason, the whole system needs to have an effective filtration, to capture all the debris that might happen to be floating nearby. The debris can clog, get circulated and afterwards trapped into the heat exchangers. The worst thing that can happen is have the debris build-up, restrict the water flow and in the end to cause malfunction to the whole system because of overheating.

The funny thing about the whole problem is the fact that the cooling system truly acts like the human body. If you "cure" the heat exchangers only, time and again they will have the same problem. If, on the contrary, you try to cure the real cause of the problem, then you are most likely to have a functional cooling system. And the real cause of the problem relies in the cooling tower. If you stop the debris from getting into the cooling tower, then your heat exchangers are protected.

Of curse, this whole system is as complicated as it sounds, but with careful maintenance it can last for years, providing your equipment the filtration you need.

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