128 Pinks Blues Tonnage x3
128 Pinks & Blues: Tonnage x3
Episode 128: Show Notes
Every week you hear me ask for questions from you, The Scaling UP! Nation! and I am happy to report that you answer those requests. One of the topics that have come up from listeners of the show is for me to define why we do certain things in water treatment.\xa0 Most of your questions have revolved around math. \xa0
Over the last few Pinks and Blues episodes, I have been answering a few of your questions about equations we all use, but don\u2019t know where they came from.\xa0 Let\u2019s do another one today! Today, we will be talking about the mysterious, tonnage times 3 to find the recirculation rate. If you are trying to find the evaporation of a cooling tower, you need to know the recirculation rate. And, because being a water treater is never easy, you can never find that information. At least not easily. Because of this common issue, we have all used the common \u201crule of thumb\u201d tonnage times 3 equals the recirculation rate. But why and where does it come from? That\u2019s what we are going to answer.\xa0\xa0
To calculate the evaporation rate, you usually use this equation:
If you have ever wondered why we measure cooling in tonnage, it because it is based on a ton of ice.\xa0 So, our equation is all about melting a ton of ice. The image below shows how we get a chiller ton:\xa0
A cooling tower not only has to take out the heat a chiller removes, but also the heat that the chiller creates in that process.\xa0 With all of that in mind, below proves how we get to tonnage times 3:\xa0
So\xa0there it is, the math does work!\xa0\xa0
I hope that you can now confidently use this equation we have all been using for years. But now, since you understand the equation, it should bring more meaning to you.\xa0
Key Points\xa0From\xa0This Episode:\xa0
- Radical Polymers [0:00:10]\xa0\xa0\xa0
- \xa0AWT Training [0:01:43]\xa0
- \xa0Doing Math\xa0On\xa0the Podcast [0:06:46]\xa0\xa0
- \xa0Evaporation Rate [0:10:22]\xa0
- \xa0The Recirculation Rate [0:12:35]\xa0\xa0
- \xa0Why We Use\xa0The\xa0Word "Ton" [0:13:32]\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0
- \xa0How To Get Tonnage x3 [0:20:05]\xa0\xa0
- \xa0And A Lot More!\xa0\xa0
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