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Sea Water Cooling Systems

06/01/2010 10:06 AM

disadvantages of sea water cooling system
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Re: Sea Water Cooling Systems

06/01/2010 10:56 AM

The use of Sea Water for a Cooling System can be very expensive. Every "Whetted Part" (a surface that is in contact with the sea mater) will need to be evaluated and designed to consider:

  • Corrosion - The effects of the high concentration of salt
  • Erosion - The effect of possible "sand" being present in the sea water intake during stormy periods.
  • Sea life - Mussels and barnacles in their microscopic juvenile stage are just two of the critters that can then grow and foul the inside the system
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06/01/2010 7:46 PM

GA. Not to mention scaling due to the high TDS content of the water.

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06/03/2010 5:22 AM

seawater is a very aggressive fluid and a careful material selection is needed, have a look at this example:

seawater corrosion material selection

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Re: Sea Water Cooling Systems

06/07/2010 4:38 AM

Rejecting whales, dolphins, cod, hake, crabs, molluscs, barnacles, etc., from the intake?

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06/07/2010 12:45 PM

Well... I guess you are asking a question.

What noone has mentioned so far is capital cost.

Seawater cooling systems tend to have higher capital cost than the other two likely cooling system alternatives; cooling towers and air coolers.

Cooling towers and air coolers have thier own disadvantages; one of which is typically higher operating costs.

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