Industrial Water Treatment Handbook: Boilers, Cooling Towers, and Process Water Systems - Couverture souple

Calder, Marcus T.

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798173195463

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

When water quality drifts, the consequences can spread across an entire plant—from lost efficiency and corrosion to unplanned downtime and safety risk.

Industrial Water Treatment Handbook gives engineers, operators, and technical specialists a structured way to understand, monitor, and improve complex utility networks. Across 15 focused chapters, it connects water chemistry with equipment condition, mass and heat balances, measurement quality, process reliability, public-health protection, environmental control, and responsible program governance.

Designed for plant engineers, utility supervisors, water-treatment specialists, maintenance leaders, and advanced technical trainees, the material supports structured learning, field diagnosis, program reviews, and informed discussions with laboratories, suppliers, and qualified professionals. Each section emphasizes mechanisms, operating boundaries, verification, and site-specific engineering judgment.

Inside this handbook, you’ll discover how to:

• Master plant-wide mapping and water-balance methods that reveal hidden losses, unreliable measurements, cross-unit effects, and opportunities for recovery or reuse.
• Build defensible sampling, laboratory, and online-monitoring programs so operating decisions are based on representative data, stated uncertainty, and meaningful action limits.
• Evaluate complete treatment trains involving clarification, filtration, softening, ion exchange, demineralization, reverse osmosis, electrodeionization, and high-purity production.
• Diagnose scale, corrosion, fouling, carryover, deposits, and performance excursions by mechanism instead of relying on symptoms or one-size-fits-all chemical programs.
• Strengthen steam-cycle performance through better feedwater control, deaeration, internal chemistry, blowdown management, condensate return, and steam-purity verification.
• Improve recirculating-system reliability by connecting thermodynamics, cycles of concentration, heat-exchanger performance, microbiological control, Legionella risk management, and seasonal operation.
• Create a practical governance system for alarms, troubleshooting, calibration, supplier oversight, management of change, cost optimization, resilience, and continuous improvement.

Worked calculations, field alerts, diagnostic investigations, operating windows, core equations, sampling checklists, a standards crosswalk, and a technical glossary make the material useful for both structured study and field reference.

Equip yourself to make safer, clearer, evidence-based decisions across the entire plant utility system. Add this comprehensive professional resource to your technical library today.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798173195463
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 295
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg