In heavy industries, such as thermal power stations and atomic power stations operated in coastal industrial zones, a great deal of cooling water is required; usually, coastal seawater is used for this purpose. There are varieties of plankton (e.g., larva of mussels, barnacles (acorn shell), oysters, sea-anemone (Actinia), algae, and many other microbes) in seawater. These marine organisms are adsorbed and grow up on the inner walls of pipes, thus blocking condensers and other pipe lines, and cause a lowering of the thermal conductivities.