Facility Management

A healthy cooling tower

What are cooling towers and how do they work? Essentially, cooling towers are heat rejection devices that circulate water through mechanical equipment to collect a facility’s heat. The hot water is then pumped into the cooling tower to reduce its temperature.

Basically, the purpose of a cooling tower is to lower the temperature of the water pumped from a heat source. The hot water is sprayed down the tower over a material called ‘fill’ to increase the time it takes for the water and the air to cross paths. At the same time, air

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