Project Profiles

Geo Group’s South Bay Correctional Facility has a water hardness of about 18 grains. As a result the facility suffered significant scaling issues in their cooling tower and domestic water systems. The condenser tubes in the chiller were very badly scaled as well as the cooling tower.

Cargill uses plate and frame heat exchangers to cool hot gluten with well water in a “pump and dump” type arrangement. The problem they were having was that about every five weeks, the well water side of the plate would build hard water scale to the point that it could no longer adequately cool the gluten.