08-20: Seismic Qualification of Cooling Towers by Shake-Table Testing Cooling Tower Water Treatment Programs Over the past 30 years

Over the past 30 years

field-erected towers can only be tested on-site once built

makes it timely to review the fundamentals of cooling tower water operators

(2) ease in maintaining Free Available Chlorine (FAC) concentrations at 0

The results from these two applications were first reported in an address delivered to the International Ozone Association in June of 1981

08-20: Seismic Qualification of Cooling Towers by Shake-Table Testing Cooling Tower Water Treatment Programs Over the past 30 yearsThe International Building Code (IBC) establishes qualification requirements for equipment, such as evaporative cooling equipment, to resist seismic loads. Where certification of seismic resistance is required, the basis for certification must be by analysis, testing, or experience data. For designated seismic system equipment that must remain operable following an earthquake, the most reliable basis for certification is shake table testing. The Code