The NALCO Guide to Cooling Water Systems Failure Analysis

Here is a concise, detailed, authoritative guide that will help you identify and eliminate corrosion in cooling water systems and related equipment. Filled with hundreds of full color photographs and over 80 case histories, this book thoroughly illustrates and explains virtually all failure modes which adversely affect the operation of cooling water systems. An ideal field reference or in plant sourcebook, this Guide will show you how to recognize and deal effectively with concentration cell corrosion, chemical corrosion,cracking, dealloying, mechanically induced attack, manufacturing defects, graphitic corrosion, exfoliation, and galvanic cells.