How To Size A Waterside Economizer Part 2: A Cooling Tower In Winter

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How To Size A Waterside Economizer Part 2: A Cooling Tower In Winter

Hold the phone; we’re about to blow your mind.

Did you know it can take a larger cooling tower to perform the same amount of cooling when it’s cold outside than when it’s hot?

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How To Develop Cooling Tower Life Cycle Cost Analysis: Defining Dry Bulb, Wet Bulb, and Approach

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How To Develop Cooling Tower Life Cycle Cost Analysis: Defining Dry Bulb, Wet Bulb, and Approach

In our last blog we suggested incorporating IPLV (Integrated Part Load Values) into your cooling tower lifecycle cost analysis. Next, we need to fill in wet bulb temperatures that correspond with the part load conditions we’ve identified and already added to our lifecycle worksheet. …

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

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“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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Cooling Tower and Condenser Water Design Part 3: Understanding Tonnage, Range, and Approach

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Last time we talked about the impact that the wet bulb temperature has on cooling tower performance. In summary, it’s harder to evaporate water into air that’s already wet. (I.e. The higher the wet bulb, the harder a cooling tower has to work to evaporate enough water to maintain set points.) In this blog, we’re going to define what those set points are, how cooling towers are rated, and finally how these factors impact the cooling tower size and operation for a given application.
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