White Papers

Welcome to the Alden White Papers site.  Below you will find a list of white papers authored by Alden experts providing valuable information on various topics of interest.  For a free download of any or all of the white papers, simply click on one of the titles, fill out the form, and select the desired pdf file for download.

Valve Quality

• How Valve Companies and Integrators are Ensuring Quality in an Era of Off-shoring and Increasing Scrutiny

Meeting Air Quality Requirements  

• How Metals Manufacturers Are Meeting Internal and External Air Quality Requirements with Flow Modeling

Desalination Intake Issues

• Environmental Impacts of Desalination Intakes

Stormwater Best Management Practices

• How the Stormwater Industry Can Improve the Performance and Approval Process of Solids Removal Devices

Nuclear Safety: Storage Tanks

• How Nuclear Plant Operators are Evaluating the Potential for Vortex Formation and Air Entrainment in Water Storage Tanks

Lock and Dam Regulatory Requirements

• How U.S. Locks and Dam Power Developers are Meeting Army Corps Navigation and Sediment Transport Requirements

Hydrokinetic Turbine Performance Evaluation

• How to Evaluate Hydrokinetic Turbine Performance and Loads

WEBINARS

Also available for download, past webinars presented by Alden.

Calibration:

• Industrial Flow Meters: When is Accuracy Important?

Numerical Modeling:

•  Better Spillway Designs through Computational Modeling

 Hydraulic Modeling

• Optimizing Wastewater Upgrade Projects with Improved Hydraulics
• Meeting Discharge Plume Regulatory Requirements Three Part Series

Gas Flow Systems Engineering

• Wet vs. Dry Question for Scrubbers

TECHNICAL PAPERS

Available for download, technical papers written by Alden staff.

Hydraulic Modeling:

• Hydraulic Modeling of Air-Entraining Vortex Formation During Flow Withdrawal from Water Storage Tanks
• Advancements in Hydraulic Modeling of Cooling Water Pump Intakes in Power Plants
• Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Cooling Tower Pump Intake Design Related to Hydraulic Performance
• How to Ensure Spillway Efficacy and Safety at Hydropower Dams
• Taking Redesign Head On

Numerical Modeling:

• Hybrid Numerical and Physical Hydraulic Model Study of Canton Dam Spillway
• Experimental ECCS Sump Strainer Head Loss Testing and the Incorporation of CFD Computed Source Terms for Pressurized Water Reactors

Gas Flow Systems Engineering:

•  Wet Position Booster Fans for Reduced Power Consumption and Optimized Environmental Performance of Power Stations with FGD and Wet Stack
• A Review of the New EPRI-CICIND Revised Wet Stack Design Guide

Environmental Engineering:

• Determining the Best Methods for Reducing Fish Mortality