It only takes 6 mils of biofilm thickness to decrease heat transfer by 12%. This means that more power is consumed to achieve the same amount of cooling. In addition, biofilm in a cooling tower harbors harmful bacteria such as legionella.
Once a biofilm has been established, mechanical cleaning cannot remove it. In fact, mechanically cleaned surfaces are more rapidly colonized with biofilm than new surfaces. Your water treater is already doing a good job treating the water in your cooling tower. Now is the time to remediate the biofilm by continuously cleaning the surfaces of your cooling tower with CLO2IX®.
Eliminate the biofilm, and cooling towers return to their peak energy performance while reducing the likelihood of the spread of disease from the cooling tower mist.
