Narrow Your Results
This standard sets the requirements for cooling towers constructed with combustible and noncombustible components. Typical combustible components may include, but are not limited to, structural carrying/support members, fill, drift eliminators, louvers, fan, fan deck, piping,...
This standard applies to fire protection for field-erected and factory-assembled water-cooling towers of combustible construction or those in which the fill is of combustible material. Purpose. The purpose of this standard is to provide a reasonable degree of protection for life and...
This Code covers the determination of the thermal capability of water cooling towers. Purpose The purpose of this Code is to describe instrumentation and procedures for the testing and performance evaluation of water cooling towers.
A cooling tower is the most useful device available to industry for dissipating large heat loads at a reasonable cost. Water is usually available, it is inexpensive, and it provides an excellent heat-transfer medium within certain temperature limitations. Many things can be done to...
NOTE: This guide specification covers the requirements for induced mechanical draft cooling towers (both packaged and field-erected).
The equipment and materials in a cooling tower are subjected to a harsh environment and usually a less than ideal inspection program. This chapter deals with the cooling tower inspection format, associated equipment and material problems, and suggested inspection and...
The materials of construction for a cooling tower are of primary importance and should be given the most detailed attention. The average process cooling tower is operated to some degree on a year round basis and is, therefore, alternately exposed to hot, warm, and cold...
Foreword This Cooling Technology Institute (CTI) publication is published as an aid to cooling tower purchasers and designers. It may be used by anyone desiring to do so, and efforts have been made by CTI to assure the accuracy and reliability of the data contained herein....
The mechanical equipment in a cooling tower is subjected to a harsh environment and usually a less than ideal inspection program. This chapter deals with the mechanical equipment for a cooling tower, associated equipment problems, and the different ways of access to the...
This standard sets forth specifications, grading rules, grades and species, and design criteria for cooling tower components constructed of plywood. Plywood is not normally used for major structural components but is often used for components which carry continuous or intermittent...
5.1 This test method is useful for rapid determination of viable active biomass concentrations in cooling tower waters. The efficiency of cooling towers is directly affected by the concentration of biomass in the cooling tower waters. As biomass...
This section provides fire protection considerations for field erected cooling towers.
This Specification offers recommendations for classification, materials of construction, tolerances, defects, workmanship, inspection, physical, mechanical and design properties of glass fiber-reinforced pultruded structural shapes intended for use as construction items in cooling...
Overview Cooling towers are subjected to varying water chemistry and environmental conditions, and require protection from these elements. The major source of cooling tower corrosion is the warm circulating cooling water, which contains dissolved and suspended...
This International Standard covers the measurement of the thermal performance and pumping head of open- and closed-circuit, mechanical draft, wet and wet/dry cooling towers and natural draft and fan-assisted natural draft, wet and wet/dry cooling towers. The standard...
The scope of this publication is a guide that covers mechanical draught cooling tower fans and fin fans as used in industrial air cooled heat exchangers. It excludes small fractional-kilowatt drives provided as part of proprietary equipment, e.g. analysers, laboratory...
This test method covers the determination of viable active biomass in cooling tower water in the range from 102 to 108 cfu/mL. It is a semiquantitative test method. This test method was used successfully with reagent water, physiologic saline, and cooling tower waters....
INTRODUCTION It is well documented (Oranski 2012) that there are many benefits to continuously removing dirt from HVAC water systems. However, the debate on how to apply, how much to apply, and what type of filtration continues. This paper will compare on a broad scale the advantages and...
