Cooling Tower Water Treatment Services

At Chardon Laboratories, we offer expertise in cooling tower chemical water treatment. Our services can maintain your operational efficiency and protect your system from contamination issues, such as biological growth, concentrated mineral content and white rust.

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Our Cooling Tower Chemical Treatment Services

We do all we can for your systems to prevent and treat contaminants through proven procedures for various types of cooling towers. Browse our comprehensive services for cooling tower chemical treatments below to learn more.

Testing and reporting: Your cooling tower requires regular water testing and reporting to ensure it is functioning as it should. Our team will test your system and report on its current status to track its condition. Throughout the process, we will keep you updated and offer suggestions for solutions for improvement.
Customized Chemical Cooling Tower Water Treatment Plans: Chardon Laboratories understands that every chemical treatment requires more than a one-size-fits-all solution. We will meet with you one-on-one to discuss your specific needs and goals, creating a custom treatment plan to address biological growth, rust, scale and other contamination issues.
Application of Treatment Chemicals: Using high-quality treatment chemicals can maintain your cooling tower’s efficiency and longevity. Our ISO-certified technicians are highly trained in cooling tower chemicals and provide passivation and other treatment applications.
Routine Maintenance: Our specialists provide routine maintenance for your cooling tower at a quoted fixed annual cost. This comprehensive service will reduce variability in your maintenance budget and provide peace of mind.
Heat Exchanger Services: Chardon Labs can clean scale from heat exchangers and set up a preventive treatment to prevent further scale formation. We work with many types of heat exchangers, such as finned tube, shell and tube and gasket.

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Retirement Community

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“The technician that comes out has been great at alerting me of things to watch for as well as answer my questions. I love it that you email me my report.”

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Common Contaminants and Solutions

Biological contamination, surface corrosion and mineral buildup are a few common problems that necessitate cooling tower chemical treatment. Explore the reasons these issues occur and how specialists can solve them.

Biological Contamination

Bacteria, fungi, algae, viruses and other contaminants thrive in the cooling tower’s hot and humid environment. Biological contamination can lead to serious concerns, such as corrosion of the cooling tower surfaces, fouling of interior surfaces and diseases affecting those who live near the cooling tower site.

Chardon takes these steps to address bacterial growth in cooling towers:

A water treatment specialist collects water samples.
The sample will be analyzed to identify the type of biological contamination.
A cooling tower chemical treatment plan is created based on the results.
Throughout the treatment process, the specialist will collect and analyze more samples to determine the effectiveness of the treatment plan.

After flushing and refilling the tower with fresh water, you can retain that purity by using the right cooling tower water treatment chemicals to prevent biological contaminants.

Corrosion

Chemical reactions like corrosion cause materials to wear away over time. Corrosion, in turn, can cause further problems, such as metal debris and contamination, leaks within the system and costly equipment damage.

Since corrosion progresses when water conductivity increases, a specialist can recommend various corrosion treatment options, including:

Lay a layer of epoxy: Epoxy coating acts as a barrier between the cooling tower’s metal surfaces and the water, which can help prevent corrosion.
Protect surfaces with corrosion inhibitors: Chemical inhibitors in the water can help prevent the chemical reactions that lead to corrosion. Inhibitor options include anodic corrosion inhibitors like orthophosphate and cathodic corrosion inhibitors, including polyphosphate and zinc.
Manage your pH levels with a multi-step approach: Since high pH levels can cause corrosion, specialists can manage the pH levels to bring them to neutral levels.

Scaling

Scaling is the mineral buildup of calcium carbonate and other calcium salts from water hardness. This buildup can cause an array of problems with your cooling tank. The thin scale pieces can damage the cooling tower tubes and reduce the overall system efficiency.

If scaling is present in your cooling tower, Chardon will remove it using a cleaning process to make your system efficient again. For a preventive approach, a water treatment specialist will use processes like:

Conductivity monitoring: The conductivity monitoring process quantifies the amount of calcium buildup in the system. The specialist will make sure the cooling water’s conductivity range is within parameters that will prevent buildup.
Chemical monitoring: Chemical monitoring regularly assesses the dissolved chemical levels in water to ensure levels do not exceed solubility limits. We will adjust treatments as needed to control the mineral levels.
Blowdown removal: The blowdown removal process removes water that has high mineral concentrations in cooling towers to prevent scale formation.

Cooling Tower Classifications

Cooling towers come in various sizes to meet the cooling loads of a facility. Specifically, airflow direction, mechanical fan usage and fan position will classify the type of cooling tower required.

Airflow Types

A cooling tower’s airflow describes how air moves through it. The primary airflow types in a cooling tower include:

Counterflow: Counterflow is the action of air flowing up with water flowing down. This flow creates thermal efficiency, with the coolest air meeting the coolest water at the bottom of the unit.
Crossflow: Crossflow facilitates horizontal airflow as the water falls to the bottom of the unit. As a result, lower airflow resistance can significantly reduce your fan horsepower. This airflow can also simplify maintenance and require smaller and more efficient pumps with variable water flow.

Air and Water Contact Types

All cooling towers vary in their air and water contact. The two primary types are:

Open loop: An open loop exposes water to the atmosphere. It uses the same water to cool and create evaporative cooling, decreasing water salt concentration.
Closed loop: In a closed loop design, the water is not open to the atmosphere. Instead, an external circuit uses a cooling water spray to produce the cooling effect and transfers heat through heat exchangers.

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Why Choose Chardon Labs?

Chardon Labs has over 55 years of technical expertise serving various industries. We are committed to quality as an ISO-certified company, training our techs to provide top-notch services for your industrial or commercial water treatment systems. We are transparent with our pricing for our customized solutions and will work with you to ensure your needs are met.

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We proudly serve a wide variety of communities across the United States. If you’re ready to see how we can transform your cooling tower chemical treatments, reach out to our team for a consultation or quote today.

Chardon is a treatment services expert for cooling towers and other equipment. We work with various industry professionals for Water Management Plans (WMP) and regular monitoring and validation for Legionella prevention and control, closed loop water treatment, boiler water treatment, and various chemicals and equipment to support these services.

If you need a chemical treatment solution for your cooling tower, please give us a call at 1-800-848-9526 or fill out our contact form describing your issue. Speak with a Chardon Labs representative so that we can provide you with the needed cooling tower chemicals. We’ll be happy to schedule a free survey!

Equipment manufacturers and Water Management Plans (WMP) for Legionella control, highly recommend regular monitoring and validation, we also offer cooling tower chemical treatment services. Give us a call or fill out our contact form to speak with a Chardon Labs representative. We’ll be happy to schedule a free survey!

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