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plan for if you are in that type of industrial water treatment let’s face it
it is so hard for an industrial water treater to keep track of everything
that’s going on in addition to keeping up with their regular dayto day so
that’s where we at the scaling up h2l Podcast come in where we are here to
help you stay organized when it comes to all of the events in in the world of
water and the first one that I want to tell you about is the engineer Society
of Western Pennsylvania is putting on the International Water conference once
again now you’ve heard me talk about that on this podcast and if you didn’t
have the dates it’s November 12th through 16th that’s going to be at the Marriott River Center in San Antonio
Texas and folks I am so EXC excited for this one because we have partnered with
the International Water conference and the scaling up H2O podcast is going to
be at the International Water conference to hopefully meet you hopefully we can
see you there at the conference you can tell us what you want to hear on the
show maybe a future pinks and blues episode or maybe there’s some people that you want us to interview maybe you
are are one of the people that we should interview now we’re going to make sure we are fully visible at the
International Water conference so you should see me there I’m going to be doing a lot of recording at this show
maybe I’ll get a chance to record you to be on this scaling up H2O podcast and
folks if you have never been to an International Water conference before I
am going to urge you to come to this one for one reason it’s in San Antonio Texas
and if you have never been there San Antonio is one of the coolest cities it’s built on a river walk and you are
sure to love it there’s a lot of history there and there’s just a lot of fun to
be had and the Marriott River Center is right on that River Walk and there is
just so much to do there as I have mentioned we’re going to be broadcasting
from the conference the entire ire week but folks I am so excited because I am
the keynote speaker for this year’s International Water conference and I
can’t wait to share my message with all of the people that are going to be in
attendance at the International Water conference and I sure hope that that is
you so if you want more information about the International Water conference put on by the engineer Society of
Western Pennsylvania you can go to scaling up h2o.com go over to our events
page and we will have everything you need in order to find out more about the
International Water conference right there for you now maybe you’re looking
for a couple of other events to attend so the North American water loss conference and Expo is taking place in
Denver Colorado December 5th through 7th we’re going to have information about
this show so if this is the type of water treatment that you practice and want to get more information on by all
means go to scaling up h2o.com go over to our events page and we will have all of that information while you’re there
check out the information that we have on the 2024 ashray winter conference
taking place January 20th through 24th and that’s going to be in Chicago
Illinois so be sure to go to scaling up h2o.com over to our events page and you will see
those events and more and folks there is so much to do in our industry it’s my
hope that as we wrap up this year as you start planning for next year you start
planning to attend some of these shows because it is amazing all of the new
technology that’s coming out and it’s hard to keep up with all of that so going to some of these shows allows you
to bolster what you already know and approve upon that it is my hope that you
always have continuing education on your list each and every year and one of the
great things about going to these conferences is there are people there that you don’t know you don’t know and
if you are not fully taking advantage of networking at these conferences folks
you are missing a golden opportunity and I know I’m talking to a good amount of
people in the scaling up nation that that just terrifies Nation you might
remember that we did a couple of shows on how we can help people that are more
introverted in social situations at these conferences so if you want to
relist to episode 96 that’s the one where we try to help introverts at
conferences and then we also did a followup to that that was show two 202
202 and that was where we learned how to network better in a virtual world so
hopefully that will help everybody in the scaling up Nation I think I’ve shared this on a podcast episode before
but if I haven’t whenever I go to a conference I set goals for myself and the goals are pretty simple I want to
learn three new things and I want to meet three new people and if I do that it was a successful show now what really
happens as I learn about a dozen things and I meet about a couple of dozen people now I will say having a podcast
really helps if I’m going to a water related conference but you do not need a
podcast to meet people you just need to meet people and if that just exhausts
you what I would suggest that you do is go to one of the events that they have
and just say I’m going to meet one person at that event I’d love for you to say I’m going to meet three people at
that event but that might be exhausting for you one is better than none say I’m going to meet one person at that event
and normally that’s enough to make you feel a lot better about the situation
and you’ll probably end up meeting more cuz that person will do the introduction for you please take advantage of
learning more and meeting more people with all of the events that we have in
the Water World something else I hope you are taking advantage of is each and
every week our friend James McDonald is doing a brand new periodic water table
with James so hopefully you’ve been keeping up with these and if you have we
are going to be 52 times smarter 52 times more aware 52 times more polished
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here is James hello and welcome to the periodic water table with James where we
think and learn about water chemistry drop by drop please use your week to search online ask your colleagues or
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if you do at the end of the year you’ll be 52 water chemistry smarter so let’s
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polyacrylate or paa what is polyacrylate what’s it used for what is a typical
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which it inhibits scale formation what is the chemal formula for the basic monomer of poly
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we have had James on don’t worry we’ve got that on our website and you can
simply find that by going to scaling up h2o.com you can look at all the different shows that we have and follow
along with James Nation as I mentioned before this is one of my favorite episodes because
this is where you get to talk to me and tell me exactly what it is that you want
to learn more more about and drum roll please Shan for those of you that don’t
know Shawn is the most amazing audio engineer that we have here at the scaling up H2O podcast okay as that drum
roll is going we are going to be talking about enhanced Chiller tubes there it is
enhanced Chiller tubes lots of questions around enhanced Chiller tub so we took
all of those questions and we decided we were going to make a podcast episode
dedicated to the wonderful world of enhanced Chiller tubes so let’s just
start out of the gate what the heck is an enhanced Chiller tube well imagine if
you will we have a heat exchanger that has a shell and tube of some sort and we
have a fluid inside of the tube and we have either another fluid or a
refrigerant on the outside of the tube and as we know a heat exchanger job is
to get heat from one medium to another one body of material water say to
another so we can transfer it along down the row so we can ultimately grab more
heat out of the system taking that heat to somewhere where we just don’t care about it anymore and that’s what an heat
exchanger is supposed to do so an enhanced Chiller tube is where we’ve
altered the design of the chiller tube and created some extra features and made
some modifications to the surface that improves the heat transfer eff
efficiency to that of a regular tube and a regular tube is very smooth and
because of these enhancements it actually increases the rate in which heat exchange between those two mediums
that we just spoke about actually takes place so that’s what an enhanced Chiller
tube is so why would we care about having an enhanced Chiller tube an
enhanced Chiller tube actually allows the footprint of whatever we have that
heat exchanger to exchange more heat and that’s what it’s all about we want to
get heat out of whatever medium most likely it is water and trans ER that to
wherever it’s carrying out that heat to where we don’t care about it most likely
in a chiller situation we are transferring that from water to refrigerant then back to water and then
up to the cooling tower where it’s released into the atmosphere well when we’re talking about the chiller when the
tubes where the water is inside those enhanced Chiller tubes are allowing us
to transfer more heat from whatever we
have in that Chiller tube so we can do more of what that heat exchanger is
supposed to do now why is this important and how does this work so I want
everybody to imagine water going through a tube and as we have water going
through a tube and it’s a smooth tube that water is just going to stay on its
final course on its same course and whatever is touching the outside
walls of those tubes that outside part of the water that’s touching the tubes
that’s where the heat is getting exchanged from the water through the
tubes into most likely the refrigerant well we now have the inside of that
column of water that also has heat inside it now it’s not touching the
outside walls so we’re not getting a lot of heat transfer for what’s inside that
water column so here we bring inhan tubes to the party and normally enhanced
tubes have some sort of rifling something on there that will change that
water column from going smoothly through the tube to actually rotating around and
forcing the inside of that water column to now go to the out side we’re mixing
up all of the water as it travels through that tube and we’re allowing
every bit of water and the heat it contains to hit that outside heat
transfer surface that tube wall interface so that’s what enhanced tubes
do they mix up the water column so we can get every shot that we can of any
heat that’s inside that water traveling through that tube to to touch the heat
transfer surface which is that tube wall interface that is what enhanced Chiller
tubes do now there are all sorts of different ways we can change the flow of
water and call it an enhanced Chiller tube I just mentioned rifling and this
is what you’re going to see most often and if you have ever been familiar with
how a Gun Works how a projectile fires out of a gun you will notice that the
barrel of that gun is not smooth it is rifled that’s probably why we call it
rifling and that causes that projectile to rotate and because it’s rotating it
actually can stay on a straighter path didn’t know you were going to learn about Firearms today but that’s why they
do that and that’s where that name rifling comes from and when we do that in Chiller tubes we can see that there
is a rifling there’s an etching of all these swirls that are going down that
Chiller tube and those are all designed to create turbulence that enhances the
heat transfer by allowing all of the heat within that water to at some point
or another hit that wall tube wall interface transferring that
heat now you might be familiar with the term laminer flow and this is where
smooth and steady water is going through the tube and there’s no turbulence at
all so when we put this rifling in we are actually breaking up the laminer
flow and for more about that I’m sure you can YouTube or search the internet
Google is your friend all about laminer flow and the reason I want to mention lamin or flow and how you might want to
know more about this is when we talk about biof film laminer flow has a large
amount to do with biofilm so if you’re somebody that is doing a due diligent
Legionella prevention program and of course just a short while ago we had
Legionella awareness month just realized that this lamin or flow effect makes it
very difficult to get some sorts of bofilm so that’s not really this episode
but I thought I would not be doing the scaling up Nation a service if I didn’t mention that so to go back to our
regularly scheduled program we now have water in rifled tubing and what it is
doing it is making sure that we are adding turbulence into the water well
rifling is only one of the ways that they can do that they can also add fins
to the chiller tubes itself and just imagine a fin it actually has a fin on
the outside of those tubes and that is designed to give one more heat transfer
surface and also to create that spiraling effect so we can get heat on
every surface area now there’s different versions of fins we have larger fins we
have smaller fins uh we have high-profile low profile all sorts of
different ways that we can do that and then manufacturers are also putting different coatings on Chiller tubes to
allow for even more heat transfer to cut down on that laminer effect that we just
talked about so all of those things are how we are enhancing tubes now I’m
relatively certain that on the inside of a chiller tube nine times out of 10 you
are going to come in contact attack with rifling so let’s consider we are looking
down a chiller tube and we can see all of this spiral rifling that’s going on
well if we are putting water through that and our water has stuff in it let’s
face it we treat water that’s not just water it is water with stuff in it we
are now giving more surface area more places where that stuff can actually get
hung up in so as you can imagine we’re going to catch more debris with these
enhanced tubes now the debris can be General dirt if we’re talking about a cooling tower and condenser water well
that cooling tower is a giant air scrubber and anything that comes into that cooling tower is going to get
washed into our water and it eventually is going to get into our Chiller and
those enhanced tubes and the little grooves that they have in between them
that’s going to allow places for that debris to get caught and settle out so
that’s something we need to be aware of now I have seen all sorts of things
within Chiller tubes of course we talk about dirt and debris I’ve seen grass of
course they always put the cool tower out back where nobody has to look at it but there’s lots of grass back there and
as they cut the grass it gets blown into the cooling tower well that gets stuck in the chiller I’ve seen sticks in the
chiller I’ve seen June bugs in the chiller I think I told a story on the
podcast a while back when my father was training me in this industry I remember
we got a phone call from a client that said we had completely scaled his
Chiller overnight and he wasn’t getting any heat transfer so we changed our
plans we went up to inspect the chiller we took the in Bell off and folks I have
never seen so many June bugs in my life now I can’t remember if that had rifling
inside the tubes or not but it didn’t matter there were just so many bugs in there it was it was remarkable and we
didn’t scale the chiller there were a bunch of bugs in there so we helped them clean all of that out and the reason for
that was this was a beautiful facility and like I mentioned before they put the cooling tower in the back because they
didn’t want the cooling tower to ugly up the facility I happen to think cooling towers are beautiful I think the scaling
up nation is with me but that’s beside the point so in the back they had this cooling tower and then they tried to
distract the fact that there was a cooling tower there and they put up all of this different
vegetation and one of the the plants that they used June bugs loved and there
were just enormous amounts of June bugs on these plants I didn’t know they can
swarm but trust me as many of that were there there was swarming taking place uh
I mean there were thousands probably tens of thousands of June bugs within this Chiller and we got them all out and
they actually ended up cutting down all of that material all of those plantings
because they were causing in such an issue so just be aware that uh that
could happen to you and the lesson to this story is when and doubt everybody
is going to blame the water treater we had nothing to do with the choices that
were made for the plantings by the cooling tower we had nothing to do with the June bugs infesting the cooling
tower and getting sucked up into the condenser water and then of course clogging up the condenser Barrel but
before anybody knew what was going on the default was to blame the water trator so just keep that in mind and of
course we had a great time with our customer they realized that it was not our fault but we definitely ingratiated
ourselves to them because we stayed there and we helped them clean up June
bugs I really wish I had pictures because I don’t think what I am saying
is really conveying how many June bugs were actually in this Chiller so imagine
what you’re imagining and multiply it by 10 and maybe you are getting close so
we’re going to have things within the chiller that get caught in the chiller
we add rifling to that we add enhanced tubes that’s going to give it places where it can hang out so what does that
mean well that means we’re probably going to need to clean it more often but I’m going to talk about that more in a
second the other thing that we need to be concerned about is we have a lot of
turbulence going on inside those tubes that’s the design we’re supposed to get
heat transfer on every little area of that water so any heat that’s inside
that water at some point will’ll see the heat transfer surface well as we do that
we are putting more energy into the water depending on where you are in the
world you might be running a water that is so concentrated it cannot afford to
have any more energy put into it now what do I mean by that only pure water
evaporates leaving its solids behind and of course we’re constantly evaporating
condenser water via the cooling tower and we are constantly putting new water
in so the tower does not run dry the system can still will continue to function well as we’re putting that new
water in we are bringing more solids in with that water I love to call that
concentration ratio now a lot of people call that cycles of concentration but I don’t like that term because I have
explained cycles of concentration to people perfectly and when I ask them
what it means they always come back to how many times the water is recirculating and it’s not about
recirculating and that’s what Cycles seems to bring I prefer concentration
ratio because it’s a self-defining term how many times have we concentrated up
the base water so with that as we concentrate up our solids that are
dissolved in the water that is continuing to concentrate and eventually
we get to a point where the water simply cannot hold anymore in solution and
that’s how scale is created well if we have a highly concentrated water that
water is working on keeping that in solution if we put that into more energy
IE turbulent water that extra energy can actually create a nucleation site what’s
a nucleation site that that first place where scale occurs and once we have that
seed Crystal that occurs and forms scale we now have a chain reaction when we
have rifling when we have enhanced tubes sometimes that’s more energy than
that water can actually take and we scale the chiller so if we have enhanced
tubes as a water treater we need to run all all of our scaling indices now we
talk about LSI RSI and PSI on this podcast before the risener stability
index the lonelier stability index and the porus or practical scaling index and
what all of those do is they figure out how much calcium carbonate we can
concentrate in the water before we are going to create scale actually that’s
not what they do what they do is tell us what the water is doing and we’re either
uh precipitating calcium carbonate or we are dissolving calcium carbonate so in
this case let’s say we were in the potential to precipitate calcium carbonate and now we put it in enhanced
tubes that might not allow us to keep what we think we can keep in solution so
we have a couple of options here what most of us would do would probably back down on the con concentration ratio so
now we have a little bit more buffer we’re not at the maximum where the water
cannot hold any more solids we backed that down so there is a little bit of a
buffer and that will normally take care of the issue but we’re water treaters we’re not just going to do that we’re
probably also going to make sure whatever special juice whatever our products are that we are putting into
the system that we are putting something extra in with that in mind now if you’ve
never thought about what type of Chiller that you are treating and what type of
products that you need to put inside that heat transfer equipment you are
missing the whole point of our jobs now we are called water treaters and that’s
what we do we do treat the water but we do it for only one reason to make sure
we’re taking care of the equipment that that water is traveling through and if
we don’t understand the equipment that our water is seeing then we are not
doing our complete jobs now this is not easy because people will add pieces of
equipment and not tell us about it people will Speck in different things that they told us that they were going
to install and not tell us about it so we have to be diligent Whenever there is
a new piece of equipment that is getting installed we need to know about it whenever a customer adds something to a
loop we need to know about it and let’s face it we are really the leaon between
the people that are installing the equipment and the people that own the equipment most likely they’ve talked
about budget they’ve talked about logistics how everything is going to get
installed we come in and we help bring in the whole focus of operation how is
this going to be used what issues in the use could possibly arise because of this
piece of equipment we’re the ones that are going to see it each and every time that we service we are the ones that are
responsible for the heat transfer management of the system and I have said
it so many times on this podcast but I’m not sure if I’ve said it lately so I’m going to say it right now our job is
heat transfer efficiency management everything else that we do is all about
the management of that efficient heat transfer now you might have special
things in your product and that’s great and by the way everybody has the access to all that special stuff so but good
for you we all have access to the same stuff but why do we put that stuff in there it’s because we are heat transfer
efficiency managers and we want to keep the surfaces clean why because clean
surfaces allow us to efficiently take heat from wherever we are taking it from
and pass it all the way down the line and take it to a place where we don’t care about it clean surfaces mean
efficient surfaces and that’s what the name of the game is so if you have
enhanced tubes make sure you understand all the things that are in the water
that are not just water now I just alluded to the fact that we are going to
have to maintain enhanced tubes more often than smooth tubes well why is that
well we just talked about it it gives all these little sites where we could accumulate scale or
debris within the system so what does that mean well if you have rifling or
some sort of enhancement in your heat exchange tubes that means that you need
to clean them more often now hopefully your customer has a regular schedule
where all their heat transfer equipment is getting cleaned on a regular basis
and some people don’t clean their heat transfer equipment as often as they
should and that is not allowing the most efficient heat transfer now when doubt
blame the water Trader but let’s really talk about what’s going on here we have
a dance between what we can do with chemistries with manipulating the water
and we can do that only so far but we also have to bring some mechanical aspects into the mix and that is
mechanical cleaning just like you do regular oral hygiene each and every day
several times a day you still go to the dentist to make sure you get that deep
cleaning well that’s how you have to look at these heat transfer tubes so
hopefully they’ve got the maintenance and cleaning of these Chiller tubes on
their schedule and if they have enhanced tubes they probably need to do that more
often because there’s all these Extra Spaces that are going to get dirty so
you can now tell the mechanical that is doing the preventative maintenance service and the owner of the equipment
that this isn’t like the old Chiller that they had and once a year is not going to cut it and depending on how
much debris is in the area what type of water you have you’re going to have to
figure out what that new calendar needs to be when they are going to clean their
equipment but trust me most people will never think about that they’re just going to stay on the same schedule and
when they see the efficiency drop they’re going to assume that it’s based on poor water treatment management and
maybe it is but most likely it’s just overdue a cleaning I can’t tell you how
many cooling towers that are out there that are overdo a cleaning I’ve heard so many people say we clean it every 3 to 5
years whether the tower needs it or not well folks you probably need it every quarter and please if you have the
ability to put some sort of filtration on the condenser water on the cooling tower water that so much helps
everything that we’re talking about because it’s actually getting all that dirt and debris out of the water if we
don’t have it in the water we don’t have to worry about it and now maybe they can go back to a less often cleaning
schedule there’s so many cooling towers out there that do not have filtration on
them and we know that they are just sucking everything out of the air and
putting it into the water that we are charged with treating I implore you to
educate people about about filters and it’s my wish that every cooling tower
that was sold had a filter built into it it would make our jobs a lot easier but
maybe the next time they are specking in a new cooling tower we can be there to
get them to Speck in a sand filter or a centrifugal filter a lot of people like
those because they’re self-cleaning but as we all know they all do different things now what’s the benefit of a
cyclonic or centrifugal separator well it gets out probably about
75 Micron particles and above and it spins those off to the side and then
once there’s a bunch of stuff that’s collected it just simply washes that through the drain and then it does it
all over again so they’re very self-maintaining a lot of people like them for that well 75 and above that
means there’s a lot of particles below 75 and below so that means we bring in something like
a sand filter now a sand filter will start filtering at about five microns
and above and the dirtier it gets it will actually go down so depending on your situation uh you might want to
consider something like that now obviously the less is better but
depending on the footprint and all the things that are going on with your particular account that’s why you are a
water treatment professional because you can help figure out what the best filtration is for that particular
customer and think of all the extra services that we offer just by doing the
water treatment we know about the equipment we know about how to maintain it we know about what filtration that we
should recommend so folks water treatment oh my gosh what a gift to the rest of the world with everything that
we do each and every day so I just mentioned that we probably need to clean
enhanced heat exchangers more often well we also want to consider treating
enhanced heat exchangers a little bit differently now maybe we have a
different product that has more dispersant more surfactant in it to
allow us to keep particulate matter from sticking in those enhan tubes well
that’s a great application for a product like that because maybe we can try with
chemistries to keep the surfaces cleaner now if somebody’s listening they might just say well why don’t we just do that
instead of worrying about mechanically cleaning well as much as we try there’s
always going to be stuff that sticks that we don’t want this is just going to
try to minimize that as much as we can now how much is that we don’t know until
we open it up which is why we need to make sure that we have have regular
cleanings on the calendar and as we have those cleanings if we can be available
as the water treater to be there you learn so much by looking inside a heat
exchanger about what’s going on with your program now that’s why we do tests
and all those tests is for us to predict what’s happening within the water and the equipment that we are treating but
now we get a showand tell when we can open up the he exchange equipment and look inside there we can see exactly
what’s going on and normally we can use that information to make our programs
better after that equipment is put back online the other thing a water Trader needs to consider when it comes to
enhanced tubes is our biological programs what microbicides are we using and what
amount of microbicides are we using if we are changing out the equipment from a
non-enhanced tube to an enhanced tube we’ve got all of these little areas where things can stick to where bofilm
can grow so we’re probably going to have a higher Demand with our microbicides
than we did on a non-enhanced piece of equipment so we might want to increase
bi aide dosing we might want to change our basde one of the things that I would
recommend is that you need an oxidizing biocide in addition to a non oxidizing
biocide and check out to make sure everything is compatible with what you’re doing but I love feeding
oxidizing biocide on demand and that’s with an orp probe orp stands for
oxidation reduction potential and that’s how a lot of water treaters are feeding
their halogens which is either bromine or chlorine and it’s being fed by demand
so let’s say they’re putting something in the cooling tower or the cooling tower sucking in all this dirt and
debris and now we have a demand for more oxidizer well you don’t have to be on
site to do that the probe will realize that all the oxidizer is getting used up and it will call for that pump to
energize and it will send more oxidizer so with that we know that we are keeping
up with demand now it might be that we have to elevate the amount of free
oxidant that we have within the system and maybe that means we Elevate the orp
with these enhanced tubes do you always have to do that well it really depends
on your system and that’s why we are so versed in industrial water treatment
equipment because we are going to learn that equipment as we treat it each and
every month so as you are figuring out this equipment it probably starts with
hey we’re getting this new Chiller and that’s all they tell you and you say well tell me about this Chiller and
after a couple questions they’re going to say it has enhanced tubes and now after listening to this podcast you
realize all the things that you need to be aware of because of that tube
enhancement and now you can be better equipped to treat this Chiller and make
sure those heat transfer tubes stay as efficient and clean as they possibly can
now as we continue in our water treatment careers we’re going to see new enhancements I don’t know what they’re
going to be but there are heat transfer Engineers all over that are trying to figure out how do we create better
equipment how do we make the heat transfer of what we’re trying to do more
efficient how do we do it with a smaller footprint how do we do it more economically how do we increase the life
of the equipment how do we make it easier to ship all of these things they are thinking about and that means that
the landscape of our water treatment world is continuously going to change as
all these new developments happen and I hope that doesn’t scare you I hope that excites you because it keeps this
industry very interesting and it ensures that we never get bored cuz we are
always learning about all the new things that are coming out and how do we best
apply what we do very well which is applying our chemistries whatever they
could be to enhance that heat transfer Nation this episode would not
have been possible had several people had not written into the show and let us
know that they wanted to know more about enhanced tubes and a lot of times I just
have a lot of fun and I take about a dozen questions and I will turn them into a show so most likely if you wrote
in about enhanced tubes you heard how I answered your question even though I
didn’t play your name on the air asking that question by the way that is my
favorite thing that people do when you go to scaling up h2o.com and go over to
our show ideas page and click on leave voicemail and you talk to me and you say
this is what I want to hear even if we don’t use your voice on the air I love hearing that and it inspires shows just
like this well I hope that you share this episode with other people on your
team so they can understand all the things that are happening inside the
heat transfer equipment that they are charged with treating and I hope that this sparked your interest to learn more
about enhanced Chiller tubes and we’re going to have the awt position paper on
our website so you can learn more about enhanced Chiller tubes and I hope every
time you listen to the scaling up H2O podcast you find something that Sparks
your interest but you don’t leave it right there you learn more about it and
now you are becoming the next expert on that and I hope you share what you learn
because that creates a ripple effect All Over The Water Treatment Community not
only did it make you stronger it’s now making everybody that does what we do
stronger and that helps us out with our mission which is raising the bar in the
industrial water treatment industry one water treater at a time Nation if you
have an idea for a show go to scaling up h2o.com go over to our ideas page and
let us know what that is thank you so much for allowing me to do a show like
this it is just an honor to be able to come at this podcast with you each and
every week and talk about the things that you told me that you want me to talk about I hope you have a great week
and we’ll have a brand new episode for you next Friday [Music]
SC up Nation you asked for it and it is here so many of you are taking the
certified water technologist examination and you’re wanting to get
better information on how to better answer the mock exam now this is the
exam that you get when you sign up for the cwt exam well I have heard your
Quest and I’ve done exactly that I have recorded a class that has exactly what
you’ve been asking for it is me answering each one of the questions and
letting you know why I chose certain answers and of course everybody wants me
to do math and I do all the math on the mock exam so you can see how to get the
right answer and I hope this is something that will help build your conf idence so you can get your certification
you can go to scaling up h2o.com cwt prep once again that’s scaling up
h2o.com cwt prep get out there and get your
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