The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suggests that regardless of cooling tower operating efficiency, about 1.8 gallons of water are evaporated for every ton-hour of cooling.

As water evaporates in a cooling tower, dissolved solids (and suspended solids) remain behind. These solids concentrate and increase the scaling, corrosion, and fouling potential of the water.

8. Cooling tower basics. Increasing the cycles of concentraion or cooling tower water dissolved mineral content will decrease the cooling tower blowdown and thereby decrease makeup water requirements.

On the roof of the 1950s office building on Wilshire Boulevard, a large fiberglass capsule sits silhouetted against the sky, looking more like an abandoned lunar landing module than what it really ...

Pure water is a rare commodity. Water, as we know it, contains many dissolved minerals. When evaporation occurs in a cooling tower, only the water evaporates; it exits the cooling tower as water vapor ...

Cooling towers are a fascinating technology when you dig into the engineering and physics. Liquid water droplets that escape the tower is water that didn’t evaporate and thus didn’t contribute ...

A very important concept for understanding cooling tower heat transfer is that of “wet bulb” temperature. Consider a warm summer day with 90°F shade temperature at 40 percent relative humidity.

A project aimed at reducing water consumption in nuclear power plants by capturing water from cooling tower plumes has been launched at EDF's Bugey nuclear power plant in eastern France. The Bugey ...

The initiative is taking place at EDF’s 3.6GW Bugey Nuclear Power Plant, where Infinite Cooling's innovative technology will capture water from cooling tower plumes.