Don’t Let This Happen To Your Equipment
Photos of Serious Problems that can make you Chuckle, Laugh or Cry!
The severe state of equipment fouling and damage shown on this page is
seriously impeding operational efficiency and increasing energy consumption.
It will require extensive time, effort and expense to clean and / or repair
most of the equipment shown on this page. Use of Cottonwood Filter Screens
would have protected this equipment and reduced cleaning to a fraction of the time.
Chillers, Condenser and AHU Problems
Cooling Tower Problems
The photos below demonstrate all too often seen problems that can result
from poor maintenance procedures. When conditions like these occur, the
tower will operate at a significant loss in efficiency – It shows-up in
operations in the form of:
- Increased Chemical Cost
- Increased Energy cost
- Equipment Downtime and Lost Productivity
- Higher or Unexpected Repair and Replacement Cost
What Not To Do
Commercially Available Mesh from Hardware Store. This unit experienced high static pressure due to use of incompatible mesh which restricted airflow. Also, because of the gaps in the installation of the mesh, the coils still became fouled requiring cleaning. This unit was later equipped with
Cottonwood Filter Screens.
Use of of roll media and window screen stops the airborne debris. However, because neither the roll media nor window screen is designed for high volume airflow, this tower is virtually starved of airflow.
This tower has pre-filter media which has been framed to enable coverage over a cooling tower intake opening.
Roll filtration significantly reduces air-flow and operational efficiency.
Marley Cooling Tower with roll filter media over the face of the intake opening.
