BCP® 6000 Series Products: Continuous Feed Maintenance Cleaning Chemistry for Industrial Cooling Water Systems
AMSA BCP® 6010 is a unique ‘Ready to Use’ industrial water chemical specifically designed to work with a biocide program to maintain clean cooling water systems.
Biocide + BCP 6010 = Consistent, ongoing control of biofouling processes & continuously cleaned surface
BCP 6010
A maintenance cleaning chemistry that penetrates, disperses and cleans organic deposits in process cooling water and commercial and residential building comfort cooling systems.
It is designed to be fed in a continuous dosing program. This approach brings numerous benefits such as:
- Easy to dose – Requires standard dosing pumps and can be coordinated with your inhibitor chemical dosing system
- Less variability in dosing – The question of ‘how frequent to dose in order to maintain a clean system’ is taken out of the equation.
- Easy to optimize – Dial up or dial down the continuous rate depending on system refouling rate.
- High degree of yellow metal corrosion inhibition – The inherent yellow metal corrosion inhibition properties of BCP 6010 are fully operational as the chemistry is circulating in a system that has ‘continuously cleaned’ surfaces.
- Legionella and other pathogens are less likely to be detected – Systems kept at a high level of cleanliness are less likely to produce a ”Legionella hit’ during a routine monitoring programs.
- Cost savings from efficient chemical use – Biocides and inhibitor chemicals can be used effectively at their lower label limits when dosed in a clean system.
- Peak system performance – Continuously cleaned systems allow for maximum heat exchange and cooling efficiency.
Costs of an Ineffective Biofouling Control Program (BCP)
Cleaning a cooling system only at the start of the cooling season and prior to winter lay-up runs the risk of operating the system with high levels of biofouling during peak demand months.
This approach is costly in terms of:
- Running the system with increased biofilm deposits for much of the cooling season
- Limiting cooling performance
- Promoting corrosion and scale
- Encouraging colonization by Legionella and other pathogens.
Continuous Dose BCP Maintenance Program – A cleaning program with BCP 6010
Continuous Dosing Treatment Programs.
BCP 6010 is designed to be fed via a controller in a continuous feed manner. A continuous treatment program using BCP 6010 would typically be set to apply the product at 50 to 150 ppm based on the blowdown rate. It some cases it may be possible to set dose rate proportional to inhibitor treatments controlled by a tracer.
Having a low level of BCP 6010 in the system continually allows surfaces to be kept clean which eliminates the ‘biofilm growth/clean/regrowth/clean’ cycle of a slug dose cleaning program. The system is constantly running in the optimal control zone.
BCP 6010 is specifically designed to be used with a continuous oxidizing biocide program, such as bleach, but can be used with all oxidizing and non-oxidizing biocide programs.
