A Traveling Solution to Cooling Tower Debris	Time: 12:15 PM	Room B
Michael Moreaux, Vice President - Industrial Cooling Towers, Inc. Debris in cooling towers often is seen as a maintenance problem. However, the seemingly innocuous task of cleaning single or double fixed-grate screens is usually the very act that generates the problem-causing debris in downstream equipment. When the screens are removed for cleaning, debris lying on the sump pit bottom is stirred up. The absence of a pressure drop below the screen as it is being lifted created an undertow, or reverse-eddy effect, that pulls debris from the front face of the first screen into the front face of the second screen (or directly into the suction pit in the case of single fixed-grate screens). This presentation discusses a solution to this problem.