Fall 2003
Volume 18, Issue 1
Inside this issue
1 / Message From the President
Back in the Saddle
2 / Upcoming Events
Expanded Consulting Services
2004 Seminar Schedule
3 / Water-A-Precious Resource
Use 'Used" Water
MIC in Cooling Water Systems
The Water Drop S
David A. Puckorius, Editor
Ted Puckorius, Associate Editor
The Water Drop is published free of charge. Requests for copies and your comments on articles should be addressed to:
Puckorius & Associates, Inc.
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Message From the President
By Paul R. Puckorius
Seasons Greetings from all of us at Puckorius & Assocates Inc. We wish you, your families, loved ones, and friends a most Happy Christmas and a healthful, joyful, and success New Year. We bless you all during this Holiday season. We thank you for your support, business, and friendship this past year and look forward to providing our best services during 2004 and longer.
Drought has hit the entire USA this past year – worse than anyone expected. It has resulted in water use restrictions in many locations. The drought has resulted in ruined crops, parched lawns, dry wells, etc., along with increased water rates – some 200% of just a year earlier. Costs that have hit many businesses and households quite hard.
Water conservation is needed despite a fairly wet winter and spring, since reservoirs are still low and drought may occur again later this year or next. We need to save fresh water now and continue savings always. Cooling and all evaporative water systems are excellent sources of water conservation. We are proud and honored to be working with a number of cities throughout the country that recognize these cooling systems as potential water conservers. We are finding many systems operating very inefficiently and losing considerable amounts of water. Increasing cooling system water cycles
even by 2 or 3 can reduce water discharge by 50%!
So let’s do our part to save water now.
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BACK IN THE SADDLE
The last several months have been a little strange for me. It seems that the old heart had decided to run to a new rhythm. This was like a problem in a water system; we didn't know what the problem was so decided to go to an expert in the field, a cardiologist. After a number of tests it was determined that the electrical system in the heart had a malfunction. But it seems that every heart has a backup system; and when the systems were switched the heart started running smoothly again. All this took some time away from the office. As a result you didn't see me at several of the conferences I normally attend, or perhaps hear from me. I'm back in the saddle again, Puckorius & Associates is busy serving industry and I look forward to becoming as active as before in working with you all.
Paul
Upcoming Events
ASHRAE
Winter Meeting
Jan. 24-28, Anaheim,CA
404-636-8400
or
www.ashrae.org
CTI Annual Conference
Feb. 7-11, Houston, TX.
281-583-4087
or
www.cti.org
Ultrapure Water ASIA
March 10-11, Singapore.
303-973-6700
or
www.ultapurewater.com
Interphex
March 29-31, New York City
203-840-5648
NACE Corrosion 2004
March 27- April 1
New Orleans, LA.
281-492-0535
Ultrapure Water Expo 2004
April 15-16, Somerset N.J.
303-973-6700
or
www.ultrapurewater.com
AWWA Annual Conference
June 13-17, Orlando FL
303-794-7711
EXPANDED CONSULTING SERVICES
Puckorius & Associates, Inc. has recently expanded its consulting
Services through joint alliances limited to designated projects with
Sheppard T. Powell Associates LLC. and Alberta Technology & Science to provide additional Water System and Treatment related expertise to our clients.
The expanded services are:
· Steam/Water cycle chemistry control for boilers and heat
Recovery steam generators (HRSG)
· Waterside inspection of boiler (HRSG) drums, deaerator, and condensers.
· Evaluations of failures, corrosion, and deposits for HRSG, boilers, condensers and piping systems.
· Make up water treatment system design evaluating and troubleshooting of membrane, Ion exchange, lime softening, clarification, and filtration
equipment and combinations of these systems.
· Chemical cleaning management of boiler and related equipment.
· Flue gas desulfurization systems troubleshooting.
· Waste water recycle and disposal including brine concentrations, crystallizers,
and centrifuge systems.
· Laboratory services including metallurgical, deposit, and water analysis. Utilization of scanning electron microscope, atomic absorption, Spectrophotometers, ion chromatographs, TOC analyzer, and
Wet chemistry equipment.
· On-site startup assistance.
· Training of operators/utility personnel.
· Total water management
Puckorius & Associates, Inc. strives to provide our clients with state-of-the-art
technology, troubleshooting, and assistance on all industrial water related
equipment in all industries. Emphasizing cost reductions. Expansion of our capabilities provides additional
consulting services to the following industries:
· Paper Mills
· Pulp Mills
· Nuclear Power Plants
· Fossil Fuel Power Plants
· Cogeneration Power Plants
· Combined Cycle Power
· Pilot plant studies on various cooling water qualities and treatment regimes.
Sheppard T. Powell Associates is located in Baltimore, Md. and have considerable expertise in power plant and paper mills.
Alberta Technology & Science,Inc. is located in Calgary, Alberta with expertise in power plants and oil sands industries.
DT consultants has expertise in waste water marketing and cost savings technologies in all industries and is located in Chicago, Illinois.
If you have need for these additional Services please contact our corporate offices
2004 SEMINAR SCHEDULE
April 20& 21 Cooling Water
April 22 & 23 Boiler Water
July 20 & 21 Pretreatment
July 22 & 23 Reuse Water
December 7 & 8 Cooling Water
December 9 & 10 Boiler Water
All the above seminars will be held in Denver Colorado. Registration forms
can be found on our website@ www.puckorius.com or by calling our corporate offices at 800-674-9897.
WATER-A PRECIOUS RESOURCE
The demand for usable water continues to increase at an ever-increasing rate. In the thermoelectric power generation industry in the United States, the nations second largest user of water, it is forecast that a twenty (20) percent increase in water consumption will occur in the next ten years. This translates
into over 9,628,000 million additional gallons used per year, with over 240,980 million additional gallons consumed per year.
We in the water treatment industry are aware of the looming problem. Government and private industry funded research is active in researching for new sources of fresh water. Yet, there are possible sources within operating plants that are not being identified.
Use "Used" Water
In one of my earlier columns, I pointed out that water conservation might be achieved by simply increasing the cycles of concentration. This has been made possible by the development of outstanding deposit control inhibitors, known as crystal modifiers.
Another method currently gaining popularity for water conservation is the use of “used” waters in place of fresh, often potable, waters. Used waters are
any water that has been already used for other means and often is discharged. Below are some examples from external and internal sources that often are acceptable for evaporative cooling systems:
External Used Water Sources for Cooling Water Systems.
· TreatedMunicipalwastewater
· Mine Drainage water
· Industrial wastewaters
· gray water
· Irrigation runoff
· Internal Used Water Sources for Cooling Water Systems
· Boiler Blowdown/Oily or contaminated steam condensate
· Zeolite softener rinse water
· Demineralizer rinse water
· Air-handling coil condensate
· Reverse Osmosis reject water
· Cooling Tower Blowdown
· Process waters
· Pump seal leakage
Some of these waters can be used without further treatment; others may require treatment in order to be utilized.
Reusing “used” water reduces fresh water use, making it available for potable purposes. Better yet, these used waters often are free or very low in cost to reach the evaporative cooling system.
The water treatment program may require some modification to deal with any contaminants in the used waters. This depends upon the metallurgy and operating conditions of the cooling water equipment (i.e., cooling tower, heat exchangers, chillers, and piping).
Water conservation is greatly needed today. Reusing used waters in evaporative cooling water systems makes sense and also saves many dollars. Many industrial users such as utility power plants, petroleum refineries, and chemical plants can switch to used waters and begin enjoying the benefits immediately
Extensive Information on MIC in Cooling Water Systems.
MIC is Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion, a very serious cause of cooling water system corrosion of many metals. often difficult to identify and prevent. To better understand more about MIC, P&A has produced Part 1 of a three (3) part series in our WaterChemSolutionsPublication. Part 1 includes, understanding MIC; what causes MIC; what materials are effected by MIC; how to identify MIC with color photos; what tests are used to identify MIC, plus much more. Part 2 & 3 will outline the analytical testing techniques; continue with photos identifying
MIC, and how to setup a MIC monitoring and control program,
up to date, new techniques, like DNA are described.
A must for cooling water system corrosion operators, engineers and management - even for water treatment service company representatives, also consultants, and engineering firms.
The WaterChemSolutions is a subscription publication produced exclusively by P&A and can be ordered at a cost of $140 per year in the USA and $160 per year for other countries. For more information contact Dianne Sofia @ 303-275-9897.
General Water
Back in the Middle Ages, when everyone believed in magic and fortune telling, there were hundred of ways of foretelling the future. Several of them employed water. Hydromancy - also called hydratoscopy - utilized rain water or spring water.
Practitioners would dangle a ring on thread in a pot of water and study the noise it made by striking the sides of the pot. Or they would study the circle formed by three stones thrown into still water. Others would throw a drop of oil into water and
see the future events in it as in a mirror.
Details on how to read these signs are lacking, but in one case, instructions are explicit: If you want to detect a thief, you light a blessed candle and place it near a pot filled with holy water. A virgin then has to say the following "Angelo bianco, Angelo santo, per la tua santita e per mia virginite, mostrami chi ha tolto questa cosa" That is, "White angel, holy angel, by your holiness and by my virginity show me who has stolen this thing" Instantly, the image of the thief would appear on the surface of the water.
Try it, it just might work.
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This is the last Waterdrop that we will mail out. The Waterdrop will be available on our website starting with Spring 2004 at www.puckorius.com
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