LAKOS manufacturers several products designed specifically for Cooling Tower applications, such as (click on name):

- Basin Cleaning
- Side Stream protection
- Full Stream protection
- Heat Exchanger protection
- Heat Pump protection

The Case Studies and Successful Installations sections provide specific examples describing how they have been successfully implemented.

E-Literature Available:
Brochure LS-580 for general information about Cooling Tower applications
German version GLS-580
Spanish version SLS-580

HydroBooster Information - English (is included in LS-710)

HydroBooster Information - German GLS-606
HydroBooster Information - Spanish SLS-606

This standard flow activity plus LAKOS HydroBoosters equals effective tower cleaning!

LAKOS PRODUCTS:
TowerClean or TowerCleanPLUS

Removes solids from a portion of the recirculating flow at a rate greater than the particle influx into the system.

LAKOS PRODUCTS:
SideStreamClean or SideStreamCleanPLUS

For a system's entire recirculating flow of cooling water; ensure immediate and continuous removal of virtually all solids.

LAKOS PRODUCTS:
HTX. HTH, TowerClean or TowerCleanPLUS

Full-stream installation keeps troublesome solids out of the low velocity heat exchanger to maintain optimum heat transfer. Side-stream on the closed loop controls precipitated scale.

LAKOS PRODUCTS:
TowerClean or TowerCleanPLUS
HTX or HTH

Side-stream on this closed loop system protects against scale and solids fouling.

LAKOS PRODUCTS:
HTX or HTH

Case Studies

Cool payback leads to hot opportunity
A 20% increase in cooling capacity and a $40,000 annual energy savings encouraged the Aberhart Hospital in Edmonton, Canada to apply LAKOS Separators to their heating loop systems. In the first 8 hours of operation, the LAKOS System removed over 50 lbs. of iron oxide & debris.

No dirt or downtime in the desert
Computer chip manufacturer VLSI Technologies experienced routine system shutdowns for cleaning its four 45 x 20 foot remote tower sumps in San Antonio, Texas before the installation of LAKOS TC Systems. After 15 months of operation, they drained one basin and couldn't find 1 quart of dirt in the entire basin.

Separator eliminates strainer maintenance
To end the problem of extremely high strainer maintenance, a large communications company in Washington, D.C. retrofit a LAKOS Separator into their building's cooling tower system and has just about eliminated the need for the strainer. In the first year of operation with the separator, the cooling tower's strainer was pulled twice, but only because they thought it would need cleaning. In both cases, however, they found the strainer remarkably clean . . . enough so to justify only a once-a-year inspection. A dramatic difference than before the LAKOS Separator, when they were having to clean the strainer every 3-5 days.

Side-stream savings with separator
Four side-stream LAKOS installations at American Honda in Los Angeles have eliminated a once weekly 8-hour cleaning of their cooling tower basins. Operating continuously without system shutdowns (even when evacuating the separated solids, thanks to the LAKOS Solids Recovery Vessels), the LAKOS Separator Systems perform with zero liquid loss to their system.

Successful Installations

University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Esso Plaza Building, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada

IBM, Valencia, Spain

UpJohn Pharmaceuticals, Grand Rapids, Michigan

UPS, Atlanta, Georgia

Intel, San Jose, California

AMD, Austin, Texas

VLSI Technologies, San Antonio, Texas

Miami International Airport, Miami, Florida

Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts

Hervey Bay Hospital, Queensland, Australia

Eli Lilly Canada, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

Hewlett Packard, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Rubbermaid, Wooster, Ohio

FBI Headquarters, Washington, DC

Victoria Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia

State Farm Insurance, Tempe, Arizona