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 ...

Open cooling towers expose process cooling water to the atmosphere, typically as part of a chiller system loop (see Figure 1). These open towers use an efficient, simple, and economical design. All ...

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 ...

Jack Spencer is a senior research fellow for Energy and Environmental Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Nuclear power plants produce almost 80 percent of the emission-free energy in the nation, and ...

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 ...

Learn how Tower Tech turned the cooling tower industry literally upside-down, designing a solution for better maintenance and worker safety. Harold Curtis's practical experience identified key ...

•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 ...

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 ...