What is a Cooling Tower?
A cooling tower is a heat rejection device which extracts waste heat to the atmosphere through the cooling of a water stream to a lower temperature. Cooling towers may either use the evaporation of water to remove process heat and cool the working fluid to near the wet-bulb air temperature or, in the case of closed circuit dry cooling towers, rely solely on air to cool the working fluid to near the dry-bulb air temperature.
Industrial Cooling Towers
Industrial cooling towers can be used to remove heat from various sources such as machinery or heated process material. The primary use of large, industrial cooling towers is to remove the heat absorbed in the circulating cooling water systems used in power plants, petroleum refineries, petrochemical plants, natural gas processing plants, food processing plants, semi-conductor plants, and for other industrial facilities such as in condensers of distillation columns, for cooling liquid in crystallization, etc.
Here’s a quick video on cooling towers and they work:
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This article was most informative. I didn’t even know what a cooling tower was, much less how they worked. It sounds like they are very important in the industrial field.
I had no idea how cooling towers worked before reading this article. They seem like a great invention. I’m surprised more people don’t use them with how much energy they conserve. We should all be using them. That way, we’d save a lot of energy and money.
How about the new models of cooling towers?
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