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Credit compliance for exceeded concentration levels?

NC-v4 WEc3: Cooling tower water use
posted by Lisa Denlinger on Aug 25, 2021, 2:05 am

We recently received City water test results that indicated the Chloride concentrations were 350 ppm.  Are there any mitigation strategies we could employee to reduce the concentration levels in...

Source for Table 1 Maximum Parameters

NC-v4 WEc3: Cooling tower water use
posted by Nathan Gauthier on Aug 13, 2021, 11:27 am

Does anybody know where USGBC / WE...

Last reply: Dave Hubka, Aug 16, 2021, 8:34 am

Cooling tower cycles

NC-v4 WEc3: Cooling tower water use
posted by Manuel Martin Delgado on Mar 30, 2016, 7:30 am

Hi,

I am a bit confused with the credit requirements for achieving 1 point.
We have already the make-up water parameters and we have calculated the cycles of concentration for each...

Last reply: Nathan Gauthier, Aug 13, 2021, 11:02 am

Existing Campus CEP Cooling Towers

NC-v4 WEc3: Cooling tower water use
posted by Gregory Mason on Nov 15, 2020, 6:58 pm

Hi all, 

I'm wondering if anyone has documented this credit for an existing campus CEP. The current cycles need to increased to achieve the minimum cycles of concentration. It is expected...

Last reply: Annie Smith, May 13, 2021, 3:17 pm

Test makeup water or blowdown water?

NC-v4 WEc3: Cooling tower water use
posted by Omar Elrawy on Nov 16, 2020, 8:35 pm

Dear all,

Should we test ...

Last reply: Dave Hubka, Nov 17, 2020, 2:15 pm

plaster

NC-v4 WEc3: Cooling tower water use
posted by Sue Bryant on Aug 17, 2020, 4:39 pm

No Cooling Tower- Baseline system categorization

NC-v4 WEc3: Cooling tower water use
posted by Michelle Bombeck on Jul 27, 2020, 7:53 pm

According to the Appendix G, our building does not fall into the allowable project type for System 7 or 8 but only because Appendix G indicates that the building has to be more than 5...

Last reply: Maria Porter, Aug 10, 2020, 8:31 am

Timing of water testing

NC-v4 WEc3: Cooling tower water use
posted by matt kaye on Dec 9, 2019, 8:15 am

Do you test the potable water anytime? or should the testing of the water be done after cooling tower start up process?

Filtering Water in Cooling Tower Basin opposed to Filtering Makeup Water

NC-v4 WEc3: Cooling tower water use
posted by Alyssa Faircloth on Aug 28, 2019, 12:12 pm

Our project is an apartment building with retail and utilizes its own chiller plant with cooling towers. We would like to reduce water loss through blowdown by treating the water in the cooling...

If treatment is used, cycles may exceed the number of cycles i the Table

NC-v4 WEc3: Cooling tower water use
posted by Sue Bryant on Jun 25, 2019, 3:52 pm

The FORM in LOL next to the Table: Potable water analysis, says that if treatment is used, cycles may exceed the number of cycles in the Table. 

What does this mean? If treatment is used,...