May 2010

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HP Water Management: What's happening with the Legionella Standard?—Part 1

In 2007, the governing board of the Cooling Technology Institute (CTI) formed a committee to craft a new standard, "Legionellosis Related Practices for Evaporative Cooling Water Systems" (CTI STD-159)..

Huchler, L. A., MarTech Systems, Inc.

In 2007, the governing board of the Cooling Technology Institute (CTI) formed a committee to craft a new standard, "Legionellosis Related Practices for Evaporative Cooling Water Systems" (CTI STD-159) for owners and operators of process and commercial cooling water systems. Simultaneously, ASHRAE1 is creating a standard for the prevention of Legionellosis in building water systems that includes evaporative cooling water systems in commercial facilities.2 ASHRAE's standard uses a risk-based methodology, similar to HAACP,3 to customize a program for monitoring, control and corrective actions for building water systems. The current consensus of the technical community is that the CTI standard w

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