cool·ing tower

(ko͞o′lĭng)

A large tower or similar structure typically attached to a power plant through which water is circulated to lower its temperature by partial evaporation.

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cooling tower

(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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cooling 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

Kühlturm

kjøletårn

cooling tower

n → Kühlturm m

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cooling tower

n → torre f di raffreddamento or refrigerazione

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This free mobile app can be downloaded by anyone with a smart mobile device, and functions as a sort of checklist for avoiding any one of the 95 potential cooling tower citations that can be issued by the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH).

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It is important that the management plan include a systematic and detailed shutdown and isolation procedure for each cooling tower. The management plan should also include photographs showing each of the components involved in each step of the shutdown, especially in a situation with a busy piping configuration.

Legionella Management for Building Water Systems

In the present research, a simple energy recovery system consisting of full scale cooling tower, vertical axis wind turbine, and diffuser is designed, constructed and tested in order to determine the optimum configuration of cooling tower-overhead wind turbine combination.

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