IMPERATIVE YET DIVERSIFIED COOLERS
A cooling tower is a heat rebuff device that throw-outs waste heat to the air through the cooling of a water stream to a lesser temperature. Cooling towers may either use the vaporization of water to eliminate process heat and cool the occupied fluid to near the wet-bulb air temperature or, in the case of closed circuit dry cooling towers, rely solely on air to cool the working fluid to near the dry-bulb air temperature. Public applications include cooling the mingling water used in oil refineries, petrochemical and other chemical plants, thermal power posts and HVAC systems for cooling buildings. Cooling towers vary in size from small roof-top units to very large hyperboloid structures (as in the adjacent image) that can be up to 200 meters (660 ft.) tall and 100 meters (330 ft.) in diameter, or rectangular constructions that can be above 40 meters (130 ft.) tall and 80 meters (260 ft.) long. Though these large towers are very protruding, the huge bulk of cooling towers are...