As Process Heating & Cooling wraps up another year, its editorial staff offers readers this handy reference guide to the feature articles in 2022.

When a large national pizza company wanted to make a change in their ingredient chilling process, their engineers had more stringent requirements. The company’s goals were to ensure that its products were safe and of consistently high quality. 

Without proper filtration, process cooling water will become fouled and significantly less effective at cooling machinery. Here are five benefits of using automatic water filtration for process cooling water.

FiltXPO™ is where global leaders in filtration and separation will gather to share the latest industry innovations and groundbreaking developments in sustainable technologies on Oct. 10-12, 2023, at Chicago’s Navy Pier.

Nonchemical water treatment methods can help reduce potable water consumption and can improve the quality of the water released into the groundwater recovery systems.

Reliable filtration is about using an appropriate micron-size filter for the location. Gain insights from lessons learned by several processors who used filtration to improve operations.

To enable its use as cooling water, industrial facilities such as power, processing and manufacturing plants prefilter raw water from rivers, lakes, gulfs and coastlines to remove organic, aquatic and other solids. Insufficient removal of both large solids and small particulates such as debris, dirt and suspended solids, as well as biofouling such as organic matter from the water, can cause serious problems.

In this issue of Process Cooling, we look for ways to improve industrial refrigeration system efficiency as well as at filtration systems suited for raw water intakes, adiabatic cooling and a case history about how brazed heat exchangers helped optimize a chiller design for laser cooling.

Choosing an appropriate water filtration system for industrial cooling processes can be a daunting task, but it does not have to be.