When a fast-moving cold front passed through the Southeast in early spring 2008, it triggered tornadoes and severe thunderstorms throughout the region. One system north of Savannah, Ga., spawned a ...

This month’s B2B focuses on a new cooling tower to serve a pharmaceutical facility’s new process water system. This tower will be a closed-loop, evaporative condenser to operate 24/7/365. The pharma ...

Cooling towers, used to reduce the heat of circulating water used to cool industrial processes and HVAC systems throughout the world, have undergone substantial design changes over the years. This is ...

In general, condensers and cooling towers have not received the attention they deserve. However, in today’s competitive electric power market more attention is now being given to improving their ...

Cooling towers serve the vital role of cooling water for power plant heat exchange equipment. Sustaining excellent system performance is important because a one-degree increase in water temperature ...

American Electric Power’s (AEP’s) Cardinal Power Plant Unit 3 cooling tower in Brilliant, Ohio, was coated and lined in the spring of 2008 by a team of coatings professionals that included the plant’s ...

•Water In: The amount of recirculating cooling water entering the wet tower. This depends on the plant size, steam cycle heat rate and cooling water temperature drop range. It is the sum of cooling ...

Cooling towers are pivotal components in power plants, directly affecting overall plant efficiency and environmental sustainability. These devices dissipate unwanted heat by utilising the process of ...

Plumbing and mechanical systems have two things in common: They use both energy and water. It just depends where you start to look at this picture. The federal government and many universities have ...