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    Alfa Laval Wet-Surface-Air-Coolers (WSAC) Brochure

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    A refinery in the Middle East needed to use water from the Red Sea for plant cooling due to limited water resources. Using sea water directly would cause high fouling and corrosion issues. An Alfa Laval Niagara WSAC with FlexWater feature was selected to cool potable water inside tubes and expose the outside of the tubes to an open sea water loop, minimizing fouling with titanium tubes. This provided closed loop cooling to plant heat exchangers using standard materials while rejecting heat and avoiding thermal pollution to the sea.

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    A refinery in the Middle East needed to use water from the Red Sea for plant cooling due to limited water resources. Using sea water directly would cause high fouling and corrosion issues. An Alfa Laval Niagara WSAC with FlexWater feature was selected to cool potable water inside tubes and expose the outside of the tubes to an open sea water loop, minimizing fouling with titanium tubes. This provided closed loop cooling to plant heat exchangers using standard materials while rejecting heat and avoiding thermal pollution to the sea.

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    A refinery in the Middle East needed to use water from the Red Sea for plant cooling due to limited water resources. Using sea water directly would cause high fouling and corrosion issues. An Alfa Laval Niagara WSAC with FlexWater feature was selected to cool potable water inside tubes and expose the outside of the tubes to an open sea water loop, minimizing fouling with titanium tubes. This provided closed loop cooling to plant heat exchangers using standard materials while rejecting heat and avoiding thermal pollution to the sea.

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    A refinery in the Middle East needed to use water from the Red Sea for plant cooling due to limited water resources. Using sea water directly would cause high fouling and corrosion issues. An Alfa Laval Niagara WSAC with FlexWater feature was selected to cool potable water inside tubes and expose the outside of the tubes to an open sea water loop, minimizing fouling with titanium tubes. This provided closed loop cooling to plant heat exchangers using standard materials while rejecting heat and avoiding thermal pollution to the sea.

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    Salt water and extreme environment applications

    Refinery, Saudi Arabia Case story

    Due to limited water resources, a refin-


    ery in the Middle East needed to use
    the water from the Red Sea for its plant
    cooling needs. The large salt content of
    sea water causes high fouling and corro-
    sion concerns which generally make it
    extremely difficult for cooling.

    Traditionally a cooling tower has been


    used to directly cool the sea water which
    in turn is circulated in an open loop to
    plant heat exchangers. In this case, each
    plant heat exchanger would need to be
    constructed with exotic materials. In addi-
    tion, fouling would still be an issue leading
    to inefficiencies and added maintenance.

    An Alfa Laval Niagara WSAC with


    FlexWater feature was the best choice. Results
    In this application, we cool potable water • Heat rejection­–169,553,000 BTUH
    inside the tubes providing closed loop achieved
    cooling to the plant heat exchangers. The • Cooling 24,000 GPM potable water
    outside of the tubes are drenched with an • Low fouling and low maintenance
    open sea water loop providing the evapo- • All plant heat exchangers able to be
    rative latent heat cooling. Titanium tubes low cost standard materials
    with all prime surface (no fins) minimize • No thermal pollution back to the sea
    fouling. FRP (fiberglass reinforce plastic)
    was used for the tube bundle casings. WetSurface FlexWater
    The sea water is used at 2.2 cycles of Maximum cooling efficiency A WSAC can operate on
    and lowest possible outlet recycled water of low quality
    concentration. temperature. such as blowdown water.

    Why Alfa Laval Niagara Wet Surface Air Coolers (WSAC)

    Maximize uptime Cut costs Increase capacity


    • High reliability • Minimal energy consumption • WSAC maximizes cooling performance
    • Minimal maintenance • Reduced maintenance costs for increased production

    How to contact Alfa Laval Alfa Laval reserves the right to change specifications without prior notification.
    Up-to-date Alfa Laval contact details for all countries are
    always available on our website at www.alfalaval.com. PEP00138-2-ENUS 1907

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