FIRST PART -- Pure Water -- Natural Water -- Analysis of Natural Water -- Generalities -- Pretreatment -- SECOND PART -- Conservation of the Raw Material: Water -- Conservation of Energy -- Conservation of Water and Treatment -- History of the Cooling Water Treatment -- Cooling Circuits -- Fundamental Principles of Cooling Towers -- Deposits and Their Treatment -- Corrosion and Its Treatment -- Microbiological Fouling and Its Treatment -- Start-Up of Cooling Installations.

Many cooling systems use water as cooling medium. They are found in public buildings, industrial production systems or power plants. Almost every cooling system using water is degraded by deposition, corrosion and microbiological fouling. This book identifies the whole bunch of problems due to water cooling systems and proposes specific solutions to all of them. The authors have an expertise of over 20 years solving cooling water problems. In this book, they advise all practitioners which need to plan, buy or operate cooling systems.