Yet, cooling tower maintenance is vital to ensuring overall system efficiency and preventing downtime. Todd Beard, regional operations director, Lee Co., Franklin, Tennessee, noted, “When a process or ...

Earlier this year, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) caused quite a stir when they reported that they had found Legionella — the bacteria that cause Legionnaires’ disease (LD ...

A cooling tower is a device that takes hot water out of a system (like an air-conditioning unit), cools it, and then recycles that cooled-off water back into the system.

Cooling towers—structures that cool water streams for air conditioning, power generation, or other purposes—are a source of Legionella -infected amoebas.

Engineered molded plastic cooling towers are one piece, so there are no problems with seams, welds and patches that wear prematurely. Engineered plastic cooling towers are also rust- and corrosion ...

To be sure, cooling towers act as effective air scrubbers, drawing dust, dirt, organic matter and airborne particulates into the tower environment.

“Cooling towers are extensively used in non-industrial segments including the commercial real estate sector to regulate the temperature within thermal and nuclear power plants across the world ...

Cooling towers evaporate water, but the impact depends on location. According to Tim Chiddix, PE, VP of mechanical engineering at Swanson Rink, a leader in the design of data center facility ...

Cooling towers as tall as 500 feet may dot the landscape near Connecticut’s power plants and large manufacturers, as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency weighs regulations to protect wildlife.