Boiler Feed Water Treatment 3rd Ed by F J Matthews, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Contents - PART 1. NATURAL WATER SUPPLIES - Rain water - Surface water - River water - Spring water - Well water - Canal water - Pit water - Effects of drought - Condensate as feed water - Water blending - PART 2. SCALE FORMATION - Effect of scale - Lime-soda process - Hot lime-soda softening - General notes on plant - Nuclear precipitation - Caustic soda softening - Sodium aluminate with lime-soda treatment - Zeolite or base-exchange softeners - Partial Zeolite softening - Hydrogen and demineralizing zeolites - Lime-base exchange treatment - The B. B.A. dejector - Lime-Barium softeners - Necessity for conditioning boiler feed - Colloidal conditioning- Mechanism of scale formation - Carbonate and phosphate conditioning - Use of metaphosphate and pyrophosphate - Budenheim phosphate treatment - Silica scales and deposits - Turbine blade deposits - Potassium treatment - Chlorination of condenser cooling water - Scale formation in cooling water systems - Scale formation in economizers - Electrical scale prevention - Removal of scales and deposits - PART 3. CORROSION - Early theories of corrosion- Corrosion by differential aeration - Dissolved oxygen Deaeration by chemical methods - Deaeration by physical methods - Corrosion due to unstable salts - Danger of soft water Corrosion by carbon dioxide - Superheater and turbine corrosion - Economizer corrosion- The treatment of alkaline waters - Caustic embrittlement - Hydrogen ion concentration - Determination of pH values - Hydrogen ions and corrosion - Coagulation control - Softening plant control - Boiler water recirculation - Electrical methods of preventing corrosion - PART 4. FOAMING AND PRIMING - Causes of priming - Balanced layer film formation - Foam stabilization - Prevention of priming - Blow-down control - Intermittent blow-down - Continuous blow-down systems - Use of condensate and blending of waters - Removal of oil from water - Methods of de-oiling water - PART 5. ANALYSIS AND ROUTINE TESTING - Sampling- Standard solutions - Frequency of analyses - Units - Control tests for softening - Raw water - Chemicals required for treatment - Control tests for softening - Treated water - Tests for carbonate and phosphate conditioning - Dissolved oxygen - Blow-down testing - Embrittlement ratios - General water analysis - Analysis of scales- Residual chlorine - Tannins - Appendix - Index - Standard solutions - Reagents-Clark's table of hardnesses - Chemical factors - Conversion tables - Summary of recommended practice - | Boiler Feed Water Treatment 3rd Ed by F J Matthews, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters