23-29: Traveling Water Screens for Debris Management in Cooling Towers Improves Safety, Efficiency and Production

Field-erected evaporative “wet” cooling towers, combined with heat exchangers, are an economical and efficient method to dissipate large heat loads at oil and gas refineries and chemical processing plants – as long as they’re free of harmful debris. Yet many cooling towers at these facilities are highly susceptible to poor performance and costly downtime due to problems associated with debris buildup and potential for debris to pass by traditional stationary water screens during the cleaning process, clogging heat exchangers. Fortunately, traveling water screens systems used in place of stationary water screens give plants the ability to more efficiently and safely remove debris, often saving the operation hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost production and maintenance costs.