COOLING TOWERS
A cooling tower is a heat rejection packaged equipment that rejects waste heat to the atmosphere through the cooling of a water stream to a lower temperature. Cooling towers may either use the evaporation of water to remove process heat and cool the working fluid to near the wet-bulb air temperature or, in the case of closed circuit dry cooling towers, rely solely on air to cool the working fluid to near the dry-bulb air temperature. Field erected cooling towers are constructed mainly in two types: concrete structures and fiberglass structures.