Cooling towers

Cooling towers are used to cool down cooling water by using air. This involves a process of admitting water into the cooling tower at the top. It then flows downwards in the cooling tower, where it is collected and fed back into the cooling system. Water evaporates during this process. This evaporation then ensures additional cooling., based on the principle of evaporation chill. Very often Cooling towers show problems of scaling or algae growth, even in the case the water is treated.

Merus is used very successfully in cooling towers, from small dedicated cooling towers only cooling down one machine, up to cooling towers which are used for cooling big industrial complexes or  power plants. Greater binding of the calcium carbonate to the water causes a substantial drop in scaling up of the cooling tower. The Merus Bio Rings are as well able to slow down the growth of Algae significant. Algae are especially if there are warmer environments a big problem. If there is not taken care properly this might lead direct to Biofouling of the whole cooling loop.  The growth of the algae slow down, they get brown and will be found in the pump sump.

Merus Rings are used today as the only cooling water treatment. Merus has a row of applications, where there are less chemicals or even no chemicals  at all used to make up the cooling water.  Still these cooling towers and the connected Heat exchangers are not fouling anymore, corrosion is brought to a stop or to a very low level. There are only very few algae found, mainly at parts of the cooling tower where there is no constant flow of water. But this algae are causing no problem anymore.