When to Replace Cooling Tower Fill Media
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Do you know when to replace your fill media? Know what the signs and varying stages of damage and fouling look like BEFORE your fill media collapses.
When to Replace Cooling Tower Fill Media
- 2. The Signs that your Fill Media Needs Replacement
- 3. Your Fill Has Fallen. This is a pretty obvious sign that your fill needs replacement. However in the following slides we will review important signs and stages leading up to this worst case scenario to prevent this from happening to your tower!
- 4. Calcium build up from water concentrates, clogging fill
- 6. Sagging and warping of fill packs.
- 7. Broken or damaged support grids. (splash fill only)
- 8. What the Stages of Fill Media Fouling Look Like…
- 9. **Fill Packs are still structurally supportive, however the light and dark streaks in the fill is the calcium build up occurring.
- 10. **This grid splash fill is beginning to buckle. Splash fill is designed to optimize performance at a certain distance from the next grid. Buckling affects cooling performance and is just one close step away from falling and hindering performance further.
- 11. **Broken splash fill supports **Severely clogged fill
- 12. Moderate Damage Severe Damage *If your fill media is clogged and not evenly distributing water and air flow or has fallen down, call your cooling tower vendor to replace fill before catastrophic performance results occur.