Manual for SEC Evaporative condenser

Contents 10.3 water quality management

1. Preface 10.4 water stop sheet for feeding
2. Safety notice 10.5 water distribution
2.1 warning classification 10.6 cooling tower, framework and piping slot
2.2 Precautions for installation 10.7 float ball valve
2.3 Precautions for operation 10.8 filter
2.4 Precautions during moving and maintainance 10.10 surface & louvre boards cleaning
3. Names of each structure part 10.11 coating
4. Principle, structure and instructions of evaporative 11. Precautions for running in winter season
condenser 12. About energy-saving running
5. moving 13. Precautions of stopping running for a long time
6. Precautions for installation 14. Special attention
6.1 Installation site 15. About make up water flow
6.2 Body Installation 16. fault cause and solution
6.3 Piping
6.4 Electrical wiring
7. Preparations for operation
7.1 Fan
7.2 Water supply
7.3 Water tank cleaning
7.4 Pipe cleaning
7.5 Water distribution pump
7.6 Water quality testing
8. running method
9. Precautions during running
10. Maintainance

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If the manual is missing or tore, pls ask for it from our company
1. Preface or agency immediately.
The manual is an instruction to safe use of the product in fields Turn over the manual to new user after staff replacement.
which applys SEC series evaporative condenser such as food
processing, refrigeration, beer, drink, oil, chemical industry and
medicine, etc.
2. safety precautions
observe the manual and fully understand the operation, inspection,
maintainance and fittings before using.
2.1 classification of warning signs
There may be difference between the manual and indications on To better understand the manual and warning signs, they are
the machine due to improvement to the machine, pls study it in devided into the following 3 types, pls act in accordance with them.
advance.
Any operation inconformity with the manual may cause serious Danger!
injury, death, etc. Dangers may cause serious injury or death, to ensure safety, use
The following precautions are mentioned in many places in this precaution or waring signs in emergency and dangerous places.
manual, especially those concerning safety, pls make sure fully
understand them before operation. Warning!
Dangers may cause serious injury or death, to ensure safety, use
precaution or waring signs in potentially hazardous places.
Warning
Carelessness during operation may cause serious injury, death, Attention!
etc. Dangers may cause slight or medium injury, to ensure safety, use
Operators and maintainance personnel must observe the manual precaution or waring signs in potentially hazardous places.
in advance before operation.
Keep the manual near the machine for observance anytime.
No operations and maintainance before fully understand the
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and assets.
2.2 precautions during installation

Danger! 2.3 Precaution during application

1) Pls commissioned professional supplier or installation
company to install to avoid running faults such as water leakage,
electric shock and fire, etc in case of imperfectness during installation
by yourself.
2) Other things that is not included in the supply scope such as
electrical heater, must use products specified by our company. To
avoid water leakage, electric shock and fire, etc. Pls commission
professional manufacturer to install.
3) Earth connection. Earth wire can not connect with gas line,
water line, lighting tower, telephone ground line. It may cause serious
running accidents due to imperfect earth connection.
4) Install residual current circuit-breaker as indicated in
Technical Standar for Electrical Equipment. Otherwise it may cause
running accidents such as electric shock, etc.
5) Don’t set the condenser in places where there may be
flammable gas, in case of gas leakage and gather around the tower, it
is easy to lead to accidents such as fire, etc.
6) Don’t put the condensor in special environment, for example,
hot spring, coastal ares and greasy places, etc. Or it may cause
running accidents such as electric shock and fire, etc due to corrosion.
7) Make sure the overflow pipe and drain pipe unblocked,
otherwise it may cause leakage and damage other devices, equipments
Warning!
8) Shut down the machine and cut off the power before
maintainance and inspection. The fan runs suddenly when the
machine is fast-running inside or in controlled state may cause injury
or electric shock, etc.
9) Don’t put hand or stick into air inlet and outlet, the fast
running fan may cause injury.
10) Stop running and cut off power immediately when abnormity
(char, etc.) occurs and get contact with seller or manufacturer. If
continue with running under this situation may cause malfunction,
electric shock and fire, etc.
11) No touch switch when the hand is wet, or it may cause
electric shock.
12) Check on damages of installation platform and anchor bolts
during long-term use. If the condenser is erected with defected anchor
bolt, it will turn over and cause injury, etc.
13) Don’t erect condenser in places where it can blow the
animals and plants directly, it’s bad to them.
14) Wear protective gloves before maintainance and inspection,
or it may cause injury.
15) Don’t touch electrical heater fan, or it may cause injury.

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16) Don’t stand on the top of the condenser or put things on it, 25) Remake of machine is absolutely forbiddened, or it may
otherwise it may turn over and cause injury. cause electric shock, fire and running faults, etc.
17) Use correct fuse, copper wire, or it may cause fire.
18) Don’t put vaporizer in places near cooling tower or where in Attention!
can be blowed directly to evaporative condenser, or it may cause fire. 26) Stop running when short curcuit occurs in protective device,
19) Use supply water and cooling water in confomity with water or it may cause fire, etc.
quality requirements, or water deterioration may cause running 27) Pls do not change the settings of protective device, or it may
malfunction. cause fire, etc.
20) Clean the internal condenser at least once a month, or it may
lead to bacterial growth and efficiency of electrical heater decline and
damage the pipes.
21) Inject unfrozen liquid into the pipe or drain the water inside
the machine if it stops using for a long time or during winter season.
Otherwise it may cause water leakage,etc.
22) Lukewarm water and cooling water is harmful to health, do
not use it for household water.
23) Do not touch the high temperature parts of motor and
electrical heater, or it may cause burn
.

2.4 Precautions during moving and maintainance

Warning!
24) Switch off and cut off power when maintaining. Blower runs
high speed inside machine or stops suddenly in control state, may
cause injury or electric shock, etc.

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3. Names of each part

4. Principle, structure and instructions to
evaporative condenser
(1) Principle
Evaporative condenser adopts heat exchanger and cooling water
for circulation. The air is sucked from louvre blade, and the nozzle
water of the sprayed water tank is sprinkled on the surface of coil pipe
evenly from the top and evaporated on contact with air. At this time,
the refrigerant is cooled down by evaporative heat produced via
evaporation of circulating water along the pipe wall.
After evaporation, the nozzle water becomes moisturized air and
discharged out of cooling tower by air fan on the top of the tower. A
part of it is for heat exchange and the rest falls down, gathering in the
water tank for cycling starts from sprayed water tank by water pump.

(2) Structure of main parts

1) Condensing coil pipe
Circulating refrigerant enters main inlet pipe from inlet pipe, and
then distributes to condensing coil pipes, and being cooled down
during this period, and then gathers at the main outlet pipe, being
transported to liquid receivor again through outlet pipe.
Outlet and inlet pipe and main pipe adopts hot galvanized steel pipe,

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condensing coil pipe uses phosphoric aciless copper seamless steel
pipe and is with slope which can
2) framework
Hot galvanized steel which takes into consideration the antirust
property.
3) water tank, shell plate, fan unit
The material adopts imported galvanized steel (British Standar
G235).
4) air fan
Using cooling tower with exclusive low noise axial flow fan
specially developed by NS.
The material of blade adopts aluminum alloy hollow injection,
low noise and extremly high anticorrosion effect.
The space between blades can be changed, as to angle change pls
contact with our company.
Moreover, the motor is closed type designed for outdoor use and
adopt direct driven method.
5) sprayed water tank
The nozzle used enable water to be sprayed evenly and large
orifice prevents blockage.
6) Louvre blade
It adopts FRP material which can prevent relatively large rubbish
to enter, the blades can also be dismantled one by one.
7) feeding
Use hard PVC sheet by vacuum forming, it is good at
inoxidability.
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8) water stop plate
Use hard PVC resin of which the purpose is to reduce sprayed
water amount that is taken out of tower with air due to the effect of air
fan.
9)water pump
Use low noise pipe pump that dosen’t need foundation, the motor
is closed type for outdoor use with air fan placed outside.
5. Moving
The following points must be paid special attention to during
moving:
(1) Use cradle for lifting during unloading instead lifting by
thread steel wire through eyebolt, pay attention that no crash, and
handle carefully, don’t scratch the outside surface of the tower body.
(2) when lifting by cradle, pay attention not to cause loosen in
the steel wire, etc.
6. Precautions during installation
To assure the maxium efficiency of condenser, pls select a site
with the following features for installation.
6.1 installation site
1) clean place with good ventilation
2) the hot air from evaporative condenser will not be recycled.
3) If it is applied in a place with much dust, sulfinic acid, etc, it
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may cause damage in heat exchanger, pipes. height) shall be lower than that of evaporative condenser, otherwise it
could cause backflow due to wind direction and lead to capacity
Outside liquid (circulating Outside fog decline.
water) 8) The distance between ventilation vent of evaporative
Sulphur Thermal water Thermal water area with condenser and barriers should be more than 5m.
content Water that can absorb much sulphur content 6.2 body installation
much oxide, sulphurous Area with much industrial 1) Construct foundation according to sample or reference dwg. in
acid gas smoke and sulphurous acid the drawings provided after the installation site is confirmed.
gas 2) Make sure that the anchor bolts are fixed on the horizontal
foundation securely, otherwise it will fall down due to earthquake,
salinity Thermal water, brine Area near coast which can strong wind etc and cause serious accidents.
Well water near coast blow sea wind 6.3 distribution pipe
1) For convenience in cleaning distribution pipe during operation,
acid Water of low PH value Area with much chemical pls set a bypass loop.
strong (take measures for PH and concrete 2) Considering the necessity of cleaning filler, it is hoped to
acid value under 6.3) Near ventilated places that install a T-type tube before cooling tower.
Water of high PH value discharge NH3 3) To prevent water pipe from freezing in winter season, pls
(above 11, except for NH3) install a drain tap at the bottom of the intermediate part between water
supply joint and valve.
4) keep away from places near kitchen, toilet and Ammonia 6.4 Electrical wiring
copier vent; The wiring project of the motor should in accordance with
5) keep away from places near chimney or can be heated by Equipment Technical Standar and correct installation method as
other heat sources; specified by Electric Power Bureau.
6) place in an open place without reflection sound; 1) Make sure to use correct breaker, fuse, switch and wire.
7) leave a distance of above 4m between air inlet of evaporative 2) Pls proceed with the 3rd kind of grounding engineering for the
condenser (air suction port) and wall. The height of wall (overall earth wire. Poor earthing will cause running accidents like electric

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shock, etc.
3) Make sure that themotor terminals are connected firmly,
otherwise the motor could burn out due to phase lack because virtual
connection. Pls take it into full consideration.
7. Preparations before running
Warning
Make sure to cut off power and disconnect switch before
preparation. Sudden running of air fan could cause unnecessary
injury.
Warning
Wear protective gloves during preparation. The air fan may run
even if the power is cut off and may cause injury.
7.1 Air fan
1) Make sure the front end of the blade will not touch the case
when use manual air fan.
2) For discontinuously running equipments, check that if the
rotation direction is correct and if there is abnormal sound and
vibration, etc.
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7.2 Water supply
1) Pack stem and float ball well;
2) Open the discharge outlet at the bottom of water tank, drain
off the sewage.
3) Feed water from water supply pipe, until reach the mouth of
the overflow pipe.
4) Make the circulating water pump run discontinuously, get rid
of air inside the tube, and fill it with water.
5) Adjust float ball valve making the water level of the overflow
pipe under 30mm.
7.3 Water tank cleaning
Cleaning the lower water tank and the internal evaporative
condenser.
7.4 Cleaning of tubes
Welding splash and trimming remain inside the tank during tube
installation will cause the water quality to worsen and the rust water
produced consequently will lead to corrosion. Therefore the tubes
must be cleared thoroughly.
7.5 Water pump
Make sure the rotating direction of the motor is correct.
To prevent partially burnout inside the pump, it shall not idle and
must be with correct rotating direction and start up with water.
7.6 Water quality test
The water circulates inside the tubes of evaporative condenser, if
it is clean then everything is OK, but if water supplied with high
hardness and density of free carbonic acid, then it is easy to cause rust
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and corrosion due to external air. Therefore, it is necessary to test the Table2 circulating water quality standar (reference value)
water quality in advance, and proceed with changing water or water Item Sprayed water Circulating possibility
treatment, etc according to test results. (reference water(reference
The quality standar of supply water is shown in the table 1 for value) value) corrosion Wate
your reference, for further information pls refer to item 10. r rust
Maintainance & Inspection. PH(25℃) 6.5~8.0 6.5~8.0 O O
Electric conductivity under 600 under 600 O O
(25℃)( μS/cm) ﹛ total under 50 O
Chloride ion Cl- under 200﹜ under 50 O
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Table1 supply water quality standar (reference value) (mg Cl /I) under 100 under 100 O
2-
Item Basic value Sulphate ion SO 4 under 200 under 200 O
2-
PH(25℃) 6.5~8.0 (mg SO 4 /I)
Electric conductivity(25℃)( μS/cm) under 200 Acid consumption
- - (PH 4.8)
Chloride ion Cl (mg Cl /I) under 50
2- 2- (mg CaCO3/I)
Sulphate ion SO 4 (mg SO 4 /I) under 50
Acid consumption (PH 4.8)(mg CaCO3/I) under 50 Full hardness
Full hardness (mg CaCO3/I) under 50 (mg CaCO3/I)
Iron Fe (mg Fe/I) Under 0.3 Iron Fe (mg Fe/I) Under 1.0 Under 1.0 O O
-
Sulfide ion S2 (mg S2 /I)-
Can not be tested Sulfide ion S2- Can not Can not be O
+
Ammonia ion NH4 (mg NH4 /I) +
Under 0.2 (mg S2-/I) be tested tested O
+
Silicon ion SiO2 (mg SiO2/I) Under 30 Ammonia ion NH4 Under 1.0 Under 1.0 O
+
(mg NH4 /I) Under 50 Under 50
Silicon ion SiO2
(mg SiO2/I)
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8. Operation mehod
1) Repeat to start up circulating pump and open and close
discharge air valve to drain off the air inside the tubes.
2) water circulation adjustment in full flow
3) confirm if water tank level is proper
4) make sure that air fan and circulating pump is running under
rated current, and check on abnormal sound and vibration.
Warning
Don’t put hand or stick into fan, or it may cause injury.
9. Precautions during running
Warning
1) make sure that the circulatin water amount reaches the value
as specified which will affect the capacity of evaporative condenser.
Moreover, check that if each nozzle distributes evenly.
2) check on blockage of nozzle and that if sprayed water amount
is correct.
3) check that if the water tank level is too low, or it may cause
water pump to cavitation corrosion.
4) check on leakage, ect of water pump.
5) Pay attention to noise, vibration and current value, deal with
abnormities in time according to Disturbance Cause and Solution.
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6) check if algae grows inside evaporative condenser, especially
on the surface of cooling coil pipe and corrosion and water rust.
7) check the water quality and treat water properly. Discharge
water in the tank through adjustment valve for water quality
management. Feed water amount according to concentration degree of
the water quality, normally 1.5%-2.0% of the water amount of water
pump.
8) Others pls refer to Item 10. Maintainance.
10. Maintainance
Check evaporative condenser regularly.
10.1 Air fan
Cut off power and pull the plug before checking air fan. Sudden
running of air fan will cause injury.
1) Check that if dust adhere to the surface of air fan and therefore
cause failure of balance control.
10.2 Evaporative exhaust pipe
1) check on leakage;
2) check the exhaust pipe on corrosion, rust and growth of algae.
It can be checked from internal tank and dismantle louvre blade and
water stop plate when checking. Take measures if there is abnormity
after confirming the causes.
3) Pay special attention to water quality management, and
running with specified water quality standar.
4) Pay attention not to mix with corrosive gas and foreign
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matters come from the outside.
5) Pay full attention to the balance of circulating water, excessive
water will cause corrosion on metal surface.
6) Pay attention to leakage, blockage by barriers , bend and
damage, etc.
10.3 Water quality management
Check circulating water quality once or twice monthly according
to standars in table 2. Check items incl. PH value and electric
conductivity, it is hoped to keep the check recordings.
Even if the testing value within standar range, pls replace the
water as the following frequency: around once a month for water
tank.
Handle in the following sequences if there is any testing value
doesn’t in accordance with standar:
1) Test all checking items
2) Adjust discharge water amount, feeding water amount
according to water quality and concentration degree, normally
1.5%-2.0% of sprayed water.
3) For better maintainance, pls consult water treatment specilist
for proper inhibitor which must be safe to hot galvanized steel and
iron and do as what specilist instructs.
4) When water is contaminated by organisms such as bacteria
and algae, etc, handle as the aforementioned item 3).
10.4 feeding and water stop sheet
Check on rust, algae on feeding & water stop plate, adhesion of
large amount of foreign matters will cause bending and deformation
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and pressure to increase inside tank, wind amount to decrease and
current of motor to rise, etc. which will therefore result in motor
overload and cooling capacity decline. So it’s important for adequate
water quality management to avoid rust and algae. In addition, the
installation direction is from tilted chute under feeding to louvre blade
as shown in the following figure when feeding.
10.5 Water tank
The blockage of hole in water tank will cause level rise
abnormally, if it is not deal with in time, the water will overflow to
internal cooling tower. Thus check the hole on blockage and get rid of
it immediately if there is.
10.6 Tank body, framework and spray water tank body
Proceed with hot galvanizing for tank body, framework and
spray water tank body after processing. It has corrosion resistance in
normal water quality and atmospheric condition. Check in due time,
get rid of the rust and then spray Zinc.
The garbage and sundries accumulate in the water tank shall be
drained off through drainage plug irregularly, because most of these
sediments are strongly corrosive and will damage the surface of the
tank.
10.7 Float ball valve
1) If sand or trimming of side cutting for tube enter rubber valve
of float ball valve, it will cause damage and can not cut off water, pls
check it regularly.
2) Clean the strainer regularly on the float ball valve.
3) If water leaks from the upper seal, screw the bolt (setting
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screw returns) right until water stops, (but if too tight, the water will
leak from bottom)
4) If water leaks from the lower seal, loosen nut by turning it left
until the upper and lower leakage stops simultaneously. If leakage can
not stop yet, then there is foreign objects in seal ring, clean or replace
it. The replacement method is removing cylinder and oscillating rod
first, then pull out the seal ring under the situation of 25A.
When dismantling and assembling, pay attention not to damage
the O-ring and supporting part of valve base.
The blockage in filter will cause reduce in water amount from
nozzle and decline in capacity. Clear the filter once a week in heavily
contaminated and dusty place while check once a month in places
where there is little dust and rubbish.
Clear the filter in time if the filter is found dirty.
10.9 water pump
1) Pay attention to vibration, sound, voltage, current and heat, etc
at usual time, check the causes of abnormity occurs and take
corresponding measure.
2) Mechanical seal is consumable, long term use will cause
leakage due to wear, its durability will be affected by water quality
and service time, etc. Pls prepare spare parts.
3) Idling will cause fetal damage to pump, it must be prevented.
4) For details pls refer to attached instruction to pump.
10.10 Surface and louvre blade cleaning
Water tank surface and louvre blade, etc are easily contaminated
by rubbish and duse in the air, pls clean it frequently with water.
Dismantle the louvre blades as the following instructions if
necessary when checking internal machine.
The louvre blades can be removed one by one. Firstly, lift the
louvre blade,
If put the dismantled louvre blade against
10.11 Coating
The proposed coating parts shall be coated once a year.

10.8 filter

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Table 3 Check points of maintainance and part replacement

Date of check Date of Replaced part
Name Check items
replacement and quantity
day week month 3mots 6months year
Air fan Rift,wear,deformation, degradation, ○
blade rust, Clear dirt

Air fan Check for injuries, deformation, ○

case corrosion and dirt
motor Check the wear and tear, with or ○
without rotation barriers

Pump Check rotation barriers, insulation 0.5 Bearing,load side,

motor resistance, corrosion, etc. back load side
with 1 motor each
Shell plate Check cracks, deformation, ○ 2
rust and dirt
Wind Check the water, rust, attachments, ○ ○
screen deformation, and clear the blockage
Louvre Check the damage, deformation, ○
blade aging and dirt
Feeding Check the water, rust, attachments, ○
deformation, and clear the blockage

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Water tank Check the damage, deformation, ○

pollution, drainage holes to plug
Floatball Confirm the action ○ ◎
valve
framework Whether corrosion ○

filter Check the plug, deformation, breakage, ○

and clean-up
Condensin Whether corrosion ○
g coil pipe

Water Check rotation barrier, insulation, ○ Bearing load

pump abnormal sound, vibration, Yang water, side,back load side
leakage, corrosion, etc. with 1pump each

Remarks:
1) mark: eye check； mark, disassemble check.
2) annual running 8000 hours
3) replace period by different water quality, ambient setting, service condition, maintenance care to different design plan.
4) standard rolling part see P16, standard part of pump see pump instruction.

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11. Precautions during running in winter season
warning
1) To prevent circulating water from freezing, pls add
non-corrosive antifreeze.
The antifreeze will become dilute due to water leakage , pls
check its density regularly and add.
2) To prevent water freezing in the tank, pls apply antifreezing
heater.
To prevent working without water, pls power on after confirming
that the heat zone is put into water.
3) Pay attention that the louvre blade shall not be blocked by
snow or ice, or the motor will burnout due to current rise.
4) Make sure that there is no snow accumulates on the blade
when proceed with ON-OFF opeartion.
5) Pls note that circulating with low temperature water will cause
water tank and louvre blade to freeze.
12. About energy-saving running
Pay attention to the following matters when proceed with
energy-saving running through control of air fan in spring or winter
season.
1) ON-OFF control
Extend the setting range of water temperature to make the
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ON-OFF interval reach above 10 minutes.
2) Phase inverter control
It may produce electronic noise which will affect other
machines, and magentic noise. Use it on the basis of full
investigation in advance.
13. Precautions of stopping using for a long time.
warning
1) Drain the circulating water as early as possible before winter
coming, because water will freeze in winter season.
2) Drain the water inside the tank and clear it. Water will be
drained when the valve stays open. Futuremore, the water between
valves of supply line and float ball valve shall also be drained.
3) Open the discharge plug of pump to prevent water existing in
the empty pump.
4) open the discharge plug of exhaust valve of circulating water,
discharge plug, water pump and tank.
5) loosen all tighten bolts and check on rust, repair places that
are difficult to screw.
6) Apply protective hood for air outlet and tank body.
14. Special notes:
1) When the evaporative condenser is placed in the area near
coast and can be blowed by sea wind, or with the same poor
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environmental conditions aforementioned, pay special attention to the remain from circulation water of solution ingredient and
maintainance and water quality management. concentrated. The concentration ratio is water circulation's
2) When doing welding, etc near evaporative condenser, pay solution ingredient and make up water of solution ingredient , which
attention not to splash the sparks to tank body, and take protective is called weight concentration o f water circulation.
measure. So as to make circulation water running in the condition of
weight concentration, discharge a part of circulation water to outside,
to keep a certain water quality. This is called discharging.
15. About make up water flow Discharging amount should be lower than weight
There are three reasons that causing water reduce in the tank of concentration of make up water quality, setting environment and
evaporative condenser, thus the reduced portion must be added. setting of use mode. Generally, in order to make circulation water
1) A part of the circulating water evaporates from the surface of running in a certain weight concentration, the discharge capacity
coil pipe, which cause the tank water reduced. can be calculated by following formula.
2) Water droplet is taken out with air through air fan and cause B(%)= N: weight concentration
water reduced which is called drop loss. (general N= 3 around )
3) normally, some part of water evaporated from the nozzle,
solid matter of water from nozzle dissolve to residue and (4) make up water
concentrated, which leads to nozzle water highly corrosion or easy to Make up water M (kg/h) = ++
be water rust. In order to prevent these, it is necessary to discharge a
part of tank water.
(1) evaporative loss
A part of water evaporate from the evaporator.
(2) drop loss
The loss amount is the discharge with air of drop flow from
running fan and splash water from intake.
(3) discharge
As the condensor often evaporate some part of water, which

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16. Fault cause and solution

Fault phenomenon Cause Troubleshooting

Abnormal 1)the front end of air fan interfere with 1)adjust the axis installation
sound and the case 2) tighten the bolts
vibration 2) loosen of bolts 3) check, adjust and replacement parts
3) shaft disturbance 4) replace motor or bearing
4) motor fault, especially 5) get rid of foreign objects after checking
poor condition of bearing
6）replace air fan
5) foreign objects adhereto air fan
6）damage on air fan 7）bring back to balance

7）air fan is unbalanced 8）wiring again until it runs normally

8）water pump reverse

overcurrent 1) low voltage 1) meausre voltage and contact with power supply
2) angles of air fan blades are not bureau
unified 2) adjust the angle
3) motor fault 3) repair or replace
4) shaft disturbance 4) repair or replace
5) foreign objects adhere blockage to 5) get rid of foreign objects, clear and replace
nozzle, 6) adjust the angle of air fan
feeding , louvre boardsand water stop
sheet
6) overcurrent caused
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by excessive wind volumn

Fault phenomenon Cause Troubleshooting

Rise of cooling water 1) circulating water amount too small
Temperature 2) insufficient wind volumn in air fan
3) recycle of discharged air
4)deviation of incoming wind
5) water from nozzle reduce and deviate
6) water rust adhere to evaporative coil
pipe
Current Bias loss 1) Sprayed water from the nozzle is too 1) adjust pump
much.
2) blockage in water stop sheet
3) input air too large
1) adjust standard designed water flow
2) check, adjust angle and belt of air fan blade
3) improve ventilation
4) improve ventilation
5) adjust water pump
Check water pump
Clean contamination on filter and water tank tray,as the
air,outside material comes in. Check on adhesion of
foreign objects on feeding and evaporative coil pipe
6) get rid of water rust
Regulate discharge amount
Use proper detergent for water quality management
2) clear and get rid of foreign objects
3) adjust the angle of air fan

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SNOWMAN CORPORATION
FLAKE-ICE TECHNIC
 Snowkey
Address:Binhai Industrial Zone, Fuzhou, Fujian
Website:www.snowkey.com
Snowman Refrigeration Equipment Co.,Ltd E-mail: info@snowkey.com