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cooling tower
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cool·ing tower (klng)
n.
A large tower or similar structure typically attached to a power plant through which water is circulated to lower its temperature by partial evaporation.
cooling tower
n
(Engineering / General Engineering) a tall hollow structure in which steam is condensed or water that is used as a coolant in some industrial process is allowed to cool for reuse by trickling down a surface
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Noun1.cooling towercooling tower - a cooling system used in industry to cool hot water (by partial evaporation) before reusing it as a coolant
cooling, cooling system - a mechanism for keeping something cool; "the cooling was overhead fans"
Translations
cooling tower
n → Kühlturm m
cooling tower n → torre f di raffreddamento or refrigerazione
cooling tower n → torre f di raffreddamento or refrigerazione


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Marketed here by Frigel North America, a new Chicago-area branch of an Italian firm, the EcoDry "fluid cooler" system substitutes for maintenance-prone cooling towers and energy-consuming central chillers.
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The 6,000-square-foot, single-story building will consist of four cooling towers, three chillers, one broad chiller and four micro turbines.
Wilmington by Filus, Sarah / Los Angeles Business Journal
From literature I've reviewed, there can be significant differences between small-building cooling towers and large cooling towers--at a power plant, for instance ("Pathogen Preference: Infected amoebas flourish in cooling towers," SN: 8/26/06, p.
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