96-08: Oriented Spray-Assisted Cooling Tower Corrosion

96-08: Oriented Spray-Assisted Cooling Tower CorrosionAlthough the thermal performances of natural draft cooling towers occasionally fail to meet expectations, the options available to the designer to improve the performance of these cooling towers are limited. This paper presents the technical basis for a new Oriented Spray assisted Cooling Tower design developed by the authors while employed by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). This design which may be back fitted to existing natural draft cooling

and how it is treated during those first critical weeks of operation

is placed in contact with water or a solution containing electrolytes

Reviewed May 2026

Lime/soda ash softener function

This sensor is superior to currently available technologies that either utilize automated wet chemical methods or measure product levels indirectly

Tower application experience

14 of them died

point sources

labor-intensive task involving the microscopic examination and statistical extrapolation

CFD simulation) and laboratory tests pointed out in the development of a new innovative patented design: the Tandem Blade

Reviewed January 2024

this report deals exclusively with back-to-back counter-flow cooling towers