The HDPE cooling towers provide long service life and low maintenance. The advantages of using high-density polyethylene (HDPE)-based “plastic” cooling towers have been well received in the commercial ...

Pure water is a rare commodity. Water, as we know it, contains many dissolved minerals. When evaporation occurs in a cooling tower, only the water evaporates; it exits the cooling tower as water vapor ...

Regulatory agencies are becoming more and more critical of phosphorus-based water treatment chemicals because they can have a negative impact on lakes and waterways. In the past, treating cooling ...

Plumbing and mechanical systems have two things in common: They use both energy and water. It just depends where you start to look at this picture. The federal government and many universities have ...

A project aimed at reducing water consumption in nuclear power plants by capturing water from cooling tower plumes has been launched at EDF's Bugey nuclear power plant in eastern France. The Bugey ...

While once-through cooling was a common feature at many power plants in the last century, environmental regulations regarding intake and discharge issues have basically forced a transition to cooling ...