A cooling tower is a device that rejects waste heat to the atmosphere by cooling a water stream to a lower temperature. Cooling towers either use the evaporation of water to remove heat and cool the working fluid to near the wet bulb air temperature, or, in the case of dry cooling towers, rely solely on air to cool the working fluid to near the dry bulb air temperature using radiators. Common applications include cooling the circulating water used in oil refineries, petrochemical and other chemical plants, thermal power stations and nuclear power stations, as well as HVAC systems for cooling buildings. Cooling towers are classified by the type of air induction into the tower, with natural draft and induced draft as the main types, and range in size from small roof-top units to hyperboloid structures up to 200 meters tall that are often associated with nuclear power plants.
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Technology TypeHyperboloid Evaporative Cooling Tower 1 Invented YearPatent year for the hyperboloid design; the first hyperboloid reinforced-concrete cooling tower was built in 1917 at DSM Emma, Heerlen, Netherlands. Classification
MaturityTRL 9: Actual System Proven in Operational Environment 1 Sources
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A hyperboloid cooling tower was patented by the Dutch engineers Frederik van Iterson and Gerard Kuypers in the Netherlands on August 16, 1916.
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Cooling towers may either use the evaporation of water to remove heat and cool the working fluid to near the wet-bulb air temperature.
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A cooling tower is a device that rejects waste heat to the atmosphere through the cooling of a coolant stream, usually a water stream, to a lower temperature.
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