Optimization of circulating water systems in refineries
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Typical oil refining plants have a circulating water system for cooling process fluids; do they use conventional evaporative circulating water cooling towers, or hyperbolic cooling towers? Or other types? Is extensive replacement and rehydration necessary? Since the evaporation rate is generally above 10%, are there other ways to reduce the heat loss in the circulating water? Could a closed-loop system be considered to recover the heat? Has anyone used this approach? How is heat utilized? Let’s discuss it too! !
I heard that there are sealed types, whose water quality remains stable and whose corrosion is easy to control.
We have a circulating water system for cooling process fluids, which uses conventional evaporative circulating water cooling towers; the amount of water that evaporates in this system is relatively high
Evaporation rates of over 10% are quite rare; the dissipation is a bit high.