Top of Page. Cooling towers are primarily used for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning HVAC and industrial purposes. Cooling towers provide a cost-effective and energy efficient operation of systems in need of cooling. More than 1, industrial facilities use large quantities of water to cool their plants 2.
HVAC systems are used typically in large office buildings, schools, and hospitals. Industrial cooling towers are larger than HVAC systems and are used to remove heat absorbed in the circulating cooling water systems used in power plants, petroleum refineries, petrochemical plants, natural gas processing plants, food processing plants, and other industrial facilities. Cooling towers contain large amounts of water and are potential breeding grounds for Legionella bacteria if they are not properly disinfected and maintained.
Water within cooling towers is heated via heat exchange, which is an ideal environment for Legionella heat-loving bacteria to grow. The disease was named in , when American Legion members who attended a Philadelphia convention, suffered from an unusual pneumonia lung infection.
To receive updates highlighting our recent work to prevent infectious disease, enter your email address:. Other Uses and Types of Water. This type of cooling tower is called an "Induced or Force Draft" cooling tower. There are two basic types of Induced Draft cooling towers. In a "Counter-Flow" cooling tower, the air and water flow are counter to each other. In a "Cross-Flow" cooling tower, the air and water flows cross. Counter-flow cooling towers tend to have a smaller footprint and operating weight than cross-flow cooling towers; however, they tend to have a higher water pressure drop due to the pressurized spray system, whereas most cross-flow towers use a gravity-fed water distribution pan.
Cooling tower systems range vastly in size and design and are available to provide cooling for small or large processes. If you are interested in more details on the best cooling solution for your application, please contact a Thermal Care specialist. Customer Warranty and Support. As a substitute, these towers use pressurized spray systems, usually pipe-type, to spray the water on top of the fill media.
The pipes and cooling tower nozzles are usually spread farther apart so they will not restrict any air flow. Cooling tower fans are used on induced draft cooling towers to pull air up through the fill media. These factory-assembled cooling tower systems come somewhat disassembled and are shipped in a few sections, ready for final assembly or field erection. Although, small factory-assembled cooling towers can be shipped intact.
FAP cooling towers can be induced draft, crossflow, forced draft or counterflow depending on the application its need for. Field-erected cooling towers are usually constructed on the final destination site. The large FEP is usually prefabricated, marked by piece and shipped to the construction site for assembly. The cooling tower manufacturer usually handles all of the cooling tower construction process, final assembly, and labor involved.
These type of towers can be counterflow or crossflow depending on the application. For heavy industrial applications or more power needed, field-erected cooling towers can be built to your exact specifications, structure, performance, plume abatement and drift. Cooling towers are normally required to transfer the heat from power plants to other process and then to the atmosphere.
By using the wasted stream of heat that is intended for cooling towers to generate vortex provides the idea of pulling out additional energy by refusing the heat to the colder upper troposphere. There is always potential to used wasted heat as additional fuel for atmospheric vortex engines whenever there is a cooling tower present or if there a abundant heat source available.
At the base of a natural waterspout, spray from warm sea water transfers sensible and latent heat to the rising air column. An atmospheric vortex engine simulates this natural heat transfer process using proven technology adapted from the cooling tower industry. Although, there is a chance that you will need to make modifications to the tangential air inlet ducts.
These changes are required to make the air rise and create a spinning motion.
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