Scale<i>watcher</i> Puts The Squeeze On Scale In Cooling
A privately owned Canadian beverage company, SweetRipe produces 20 million cases of fruit beverages annually which it distributes throughout Canada, the USA, Europe and the Middle East. The company has three state-of-the-art plants (two located in Missisauga, Ontario and the third in Port Williams, Nova Scotia) which produce in Tetra, Glass, PET and Gable-top (refrigerated) packaging formats.
The towers refrigeration system freezes bulk juice concentrate in a 20,000 sq. ft area within the factory site. Prior to the Scalewatcher System being installed, the cooling tower was treated for scale using both chemicals and labor. Following a site survey by a Scalewatcher engineer, the System was installed on the discharge side of the cooling water's circulating pump. The softeners were bypassed, and the chemical injection pump turned off. Following installation, a visual inspection was conducted once a week.