Successful Cooling Tower Filtration in Various Applications:

Basin Cleaning
Strategically placed flow HydroBoosters prevent solids accumulation in the basin and attack conditions that breed harmful bacteria. This standard flow activity plus LAKOS HydroBoosters equals effective tower cleaning!

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

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

Heat Exchangers
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.

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

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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.

Application Bulletins

AB-224 Case Study: District Energy From Citizens Thermal
AB-222 Case Study: Cooling Tower Basin Cleaning at Pharmaceutical Company
AB-216 Basin Sweeping Eliminates the Need For Sump Cleaning at Large Medical Facility
AB-211 May Co Energy Savings
AB-209 Hospital Cooling Tower Cleaning
AB-208 Hospital Cooling Towers and Reducing Risk of Legionella
AB-206 Cooling Tower Filtration Leads To Huge Energy Savings
AB-205 Closed Loop/HT/Boilers
AB-198 LAKOS Curbs Energy Costs in Hospital Cooling System
AB-194 LAKOS Solves Several Steel Mill Cooling Water Filtration Problems
AB-193 Metal Refinery Eliminates Sump Clean-Up Problem with Self-Cleaning LAKOS System
AB-190 Glycol Filtration Improved with LAKOS Separator
AB-182 Separator Removes Carbon from Fry Oil
AB-181 LAKOS Solves Sand Dilemma in Desert Cooling System
AB-175 HVAC Side-Stream Curbs Shutdowns, Water Loss & Maintenance
AB-171 Closed-Loop Chiller Maintenance Problems Solved by LAKOS
AB-170 LAKOS Separator Reduces Strainer Maintenance for HVAC System
AB-165 Separator Replaces Basket Strainer in Quench Water System
AB-162 LAKOS Protects Water Jacket and Heat Exchanger at Glass Plant
AB-159 National Wire-BAC Ejector Tower Protection
AB-153 West World Inn-Chiller Protection
AB-152 Sperry Vickers-Coolant Recive System
AB-147 LAKOS Removed Mill Scale at California Steel's Hot Rolling Mill
AB-132 Grit & Scale Removed from Recirculated Foundry Cooling Tower
AB-129 Separators Reduce Maintenance on Full-Stream Cooling Tower