Cooling tower technology: Maintenance, upgrading, and rebuilding

This updated manual provides a compendium of readily applicable techniques which readers can utilize to improve the performance of any cooling tower. This practical handbook covers internal elements of towers, and shows procedures for upgrading them for both energy savings and enhanced profitability of operations. It explains why many cooling towers in operation today have been poorly designed and operated. Specific methodologies are shown which improve performance, produce colder water and ciculate a greater volume of water in the same tower. Topics include: thermal performance, water distribution, water treatment, maintenance, inspection, drift elimination and operating concepts.