No Cooling Water flow
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 3:17 am
Hi everyone, this is my first post in the forum, so please be kind...
This is my issue: I'm working in rubber plant and I have a problem in the finishing product lines, the cooling water return line from a hydraulic press (in fact are really 8 presses) is no flowing to the CWR header so it causes that hydraulic oil overheat and shutdown the lines.
I've been asked to solve this but I have no idea where to start, unfortunately there is no PFD available of the cooling water distribution, what I know for sure is that the cooling water supply header pressure is 4.1 kg/cm2g, the water flow from each press is about 16 gpm (needs to be checked) and the pipe diameter is 1 1/2", to maintain the lines working we are discharging the water to the drain.
Can someone please point me in the right direction. I'm not a process engineer and any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
This is my issue: I'm working in rubber plant and I have a problem in the finishing product lines, the cooling water return line from a hydraulic press (in fact are really 8 presses) is no flowing to the CWR header so it causes that hydraulic oil overheat and shutdown the lines.
I've been asked to solve this but I have no idea where to start, unfortunately there is no PFD available of the cooling water distribution, what I know for sure is that the cooling water supply header pressure is 4.1 kg/cm2g, the water flow from each press is about 16 gpm (needs to be checked) and the pipe diameter is 1 1/2", to maintain the lines working we are discharging the water to the drain.
Can someone please point me in the right direction. I'm not a process engineer and any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.