Cooling Towers

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Cross Flow Cooling Tower

Cooling Towers Cooling towers are a prominent feature on the British horizon. These huge convex structures marked both rural and urban landscapes, and have done so for decades. However, many people are still unaware of what they are and their role in the industry. If you are in the dark about the cooling towers, here is a quick guide to how they work. What are they? The towers are often found in power plants, factories and chemical plants. Its basic function is to remove excess heat. In a chemical plant, for example, certain processes may generate excess heat. The use of a heat exchanger and the cold water passes through the machine, this is removed. Wooden cooling tower In this way, help to control the temperature of a workplace, as required by law. However, the cooling towers can also be instrumental in industrial processes themselves. For example, electricity is generated at a power station where the steam passes through a turbine. In order to maintain this cyclical process, the steam must be condensed before moving on to the boiler and then back through the turbine. Condensation occurs in a heat exchanger, which requires chilled water through the machine. Large towers convex saw prominently in the UK place called natural draft towers. The height of these towers - often over 100 meters high - creates the conditions for a natural process by which air rises and condenses into drops of water falling down. So large plumes of smoke snuff, as it often seems that emanates from these towers not smoke at all, but water vapor. Timber cooling tower Another type found in the industry is forced draft tower. These contain fans which force the air through the tower, in order to condense water. Torres forced shot projects are typically box-shaped towers and much shorter than natural, and thus are often less obvious. Small cooling towers


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