Any amount of wasted water is too much. Perhaps it's time to compare your maintenance procedures to current best practices. Do they measure up?

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With proper maintenance and application of sound engineering principles, a cooling tower can be given a new lease on life and produce colder water.

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Not all cooling tower fills will meet your application's performance and environmental requirements, so choose carefully. Here's a primer to help you out.

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Wood continues to be widely used for the construction of cooling towers. Wood deterioration can shorten the life of a cooling tower from an anticipated 20-25 years to 10 years or less. Cooling tower operation becomes inefficient and repair and replacement costs are excessive.

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At first sight, a cooling tower fan is straightforward in its design, being essentially an axial fan to drive air through a piece of cooling equipment. It is only handling air and the rotational speeds are low, and so it tends not to receive much attention. However, the size of equipment in modern industrial plant means that the machines are now of a significant size and serious problems can result if care is not taken.
 

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About the community outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease in hospital cooling towers; an epidemiological method to calculate dose of exposure.

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