An Introduction to Cooling Towers

Course Description:

Cooling water systems remove heat generated from a variety of industrial processes. There are three basic types of cooling water systems: once-through, open recirculating, and closed recirculating cooling water systems. This course describes once-through and open recirculating systems.

Learning Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

·         Learn about the three basic types of cooling water systems;

·         Learn where once-through cooling water systems are typically used;

·         Learn why recirculating cooling water systems are open to the atmosphere and continuously recycle and reuse the cooling water;

·         Learn about natural draft cooling towers;

·         Learn about forced-draft and induced-draft cooling towers;

·         Learn how to calculate key parameters for cooling towers; and

·         Learn the difference between cross-flow and counter-flow cooling towers.