Some might say that in our efforts to use water in a cooling tower, it must result in "blowdown" or more commonly known as tower bleed. If we do not, we must be willing to live with the consequences of scale, corrosion and bio-problems etc... Water treatment, therefore, in open cooling systems must result in the bleed of the concentrated solids caused by evaporation resulting in 15 - 40% of the incoming water going down the drain. Oh no! - I almost forgot, there are chemicals that are needed to mitigate these consequences at minimal, however, bleed is still needed to manage the product limitations (we refer to this treatment as index chemistry).
Alas, we have treated one set of consequences with another set of consequences - i.e. costs of excess water use still remains and now we have hazardous materials going to the environment. This might be thought of as bad Karma!
With our WCTI Zero Tower Bleed Silica Based non-index program, and its 98% reduction in system water use, our elimination of chemicals has allowed us to address the consequences of water treatment without any further negative consequences - I like to think of this as good KARMA!
How is your Karma?