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Area Utilities

Cooling Tower
Cooling Tower Equations Tower Makeup = Evaporation + Windage/drift+ Cooling Tower blow down Makeup * Xm = Evaporation * 0+ Windage * Xb+ Blow down * Xb Blow down = (Windage* (Xb/Xm-1)-Evaporation)/(1-Xb/Xm) Value Units

Value

Units

Present Windage Tower Recirculation Windage Rate Windage Evaporation Delta T Evaporation Blow down Cycles of Concentration Blowdown Cooling Tower Makeup 9,900 0.1% 14,256 gpm % gpd

After Water Treatment Upgrade 9,900 0.1% 14,256 gpm % gpd

8 114,048

F gpd

8 114,048

F gpd # number gpd gpd

4 23,760 152,064

number gpd gpd

8 2,037 130,341

Boiler
Steam Generation Boiler Makeup Returned Condensate Blowdown @ 4 cycles 20,000 13,300 10,000 3,325 lbs/hour lbs/hour lbs/hour lbs/hour 38,273 gpd 9,568 gpd 20,000 11,000 10,000 1,000 lbs/hour lbs/hour lbs/hour gpd

Cooling Tower & Boiler Inputs & Outputs


Cooling Tower Makeup + Boiler Makeup Water Treatment Wastewaters Total Inputs into Utilities Evaporation Utilites Wastewater 190,337 9,517 199,854 157,081 42,845 gpd gpd gpd gpd gpd 161,995 1,000 162,995 157,081 4,037 gpd gpd gpd gpd gpd

Sanitary

1200 people time 25 gallons/person/shift Count number of heads per zone multiply by rated capacity multiply by sprinkling time. Sum the flows for all zones Estimated leaks based upon engineering judgment Water Reduction

30,000

gpd

30,000

gpd

Irrigation

29,000 5,000 34,000

gpd gpd gpd

29,000 0 29,000

gpd gpd gpd

Water Reduction (gpd)

36,859

5,000 36,859

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