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Chalk Point cooling tower project. Volume 2. Cooling tower drift dye tracer experiment, June 16 and 17, 1977. Final report 1 July 1976--30 June 1977

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6337643
A drift dye tracer experiment, using Rhodamine (WT) dye, was conducted on airborne drift from a natural draft cooling tower at PEPCO's Chalk Point, Maryland Power Generating Station. This experiment was designed to separate and identify cooling tower aerosol deposition from other sources and to provide a data base for use in cooling tower salt loading and model validation. Prior to the experiment, laboratory tests showed that Rhodamine (WT) was inexpensive, safe and controllable when used as a drift dye tracer. Positive identification and separation of cooling tower drift can be made among other sources using a dye tracer.
Research Organization:
Johns Hopkins Univ., Silver Spring, MD (USA). Applied Physics Lab.
OSTI ID:
6337643
Report Number(s):
PB-284059
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English