r/ChemicalEngineering May 25 '25

Design Chemical dosing for cooling tower water

Hello guys, junior engineer here. I was given the task to install a control panel to inject chemicals for cooling tower water and design the suitable piping pathway and where should the chemicals be injected into the cooling tower system. I was thinking of just directly inject the chemicals into the cooling tower basin, but since the cooled water in the basin is stagnant, im afraid the chemicals will not mix well inside the basin. My supervisor suggested do the piping to that the chemicals are injected into the header at recirculation pump discharge side. The constraint with this idea is that the header is made of stainless steel, and the chemical piping is PVC. I would like to ask for any ideas or comment from you guys, especially for those who are working with cooling tower. Is there any industry standard on how to inject the chemicals into the cooling tower system?

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u/Frosty_Cloud_2888 May 26 '25

I think you might lose some with drift / evap.

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u/Derrickmb May 26 '25

What are the chemicals?

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u/Frosty_Cloud_2888 May 26 '25

Scale and corrosion inhibitor

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u/Derrickmb May 26 '25

What are their densities and vapor pressures and volatilities?