A clear-eyed assessment of your program's performance, risk, and cost — from someone with no chemical product to sell.
Most cooling water programs have never been reviewed by a party with no commercial interest in the outcome. The incumbent vendor evaluates your program against their own product performance targets. An independent audit measures performance against your system's actual chemistry, your production requirements, and the theoretical potential of your water source — not what the vendor decides to report.
Three or more years of water chemistry trends, corrosion coupon results, chemical consumption, and operating parameters reviewed for patterns, anomalies, and drift.
Your actual makeup water chemistry is modeled using PHREEQC to establish the theoretical CoC ceiling, identify the scaling-limiting species, and calculate current saturation indices at operating conditions.
We review your current contract for pricing structure, performance specifications, accountability mechanisms, and commercial terms against industry benchmarks.
One to two on-site days: tower inspection, basin condition, fill media, drift eliminators, monitoring equipment, and direct observation of service practices.
Every finding is assigned a dollar range — water savings, chemical savings, contract savings, or production risk reduction — so the ROI of the audit is clear before any corrective action is taken.
Most audits pay for themselves before the report is delivered. A refinery or data center spending $500K–$2M per year on cooling water treatment typically has 10–25% in recoverable efficiency — well above the cost of an independent review.