How To Develop Cooling Tower Life Cycle Cost Analysis: Introduction

How To Develop Cooling Tower Life Cycle Cost Analysis: Introduction

Cooling towers cost money. Cooling towers save money. In between those two statements lies a host of variables that must be evaluated in order for the engineer to make an informed decision on behalf of…

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How to Pick A Cooling Tower: Choosing a Fan Driver

How to Pick A Cooling Tower: Choosing a Fan Driver

Every cooling tower has a fan (or fans if it includes multiple cells) and these fans require some sort of mechanism or “driver” to transfer energy from the motor to the actual fan. This transfer can be…

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How to Pick a Cooling Tower: Comparing Open and Closed Loop Towers

“Would my project be better served by an open loop cooling tower or a closed loop cooling tower?”

It’s a question that anyone in the early stages of designing a hydronic system that requires heat rejection is certain to ask. The answer is partly intuitive but also based o…

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