Cooling tower heat transfer basics—Part 3

Brad Buecker is a Senior Technical Publicist with ChemTreat. He has many years of experience in or affiliated with the power industry, much of it in steam generation chemistry, water treatment, air quality control and results engineering positions with City Water, Light & Power (Springfield, Illinois) and Kansas City Power & Light Co. Mr. Buecker earned a BS degree in chemistry from Iowa State University, with additional course work in fluid mechanics, energy and materials balances and advanced inorganic chemistry. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Cooling Technology Institute, the National Association of Corrosion Engineers, the Electric Utility Chemistry Workshop planning committee and the International Water Conference Advisory Council. Mr. Buecker has authored many articles and three books on power plant and water/steam chemistry.

Richard J. Aull is an Engineering Consultant with more than 40 yr of industry experience in cooling tower thermal design, and performance rating and analysis. Prior to his consulting work, he directed the application engineering and research and development activities for the Cooling Tower Products Group of Brentwood Industries. Prior to joining Brentwood, he held a variety of engineering positions within Research Cottrell’s Hamon Cooling Tower Division and Ecodyne’s Cooling Tower Services Group, specializing in acquiring and managing cooling tower thermal and structural upgrades, as well as in the testing of cooling towers and the development of cooling tower rating software for in-house use. Mr. Aull earned BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.