SEDL / STP / STP416-EB / STP47248S

Industrial Water for Cooling and General Purposes

von Frank, A. J.
Director, Allied Chemical Corp., New York, N. Y.

Fawcett, R. L.
Manager, Allied Chemical Corp., Philadelphia, Pa.

Pages: 5    Published: Jan 1967

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Abstract

Quality criteria for industrial cooling waters have received little industrial attention in the context of use for source standards. The reasons given for this passivity are: (a) a history of industrial adaptation to a wide variety of water supplies without stress in most cases; (b) an awareness that other beneficial uses, both public and private, involve quality limits more stringent than those reasonably required for cooling water supply; and (c) the practical problems in isolating meaningful threshold concentrations in those multivariant technico-economic systems. The common parameters of biological growths, carbon dioxide, chlorides, dissolved oxygen, dissolved solids, iron, manganese, and pH are discussed briefly against this background.