Hot water discharged to a stream, shallow lake or coastal water may have an adverse effect. Instead, water is cooled by evaporation in specially designed towers. This water may later condense to form atmospheric vapor plumes. Cooling towers for air...

Cooling towers are heat rejection devices used to transfer process waste heat to the atmosphere. Cooling towers may either use the evaporation of water to reject process heat and cool the working fluid to near the wet-bulb air temperature or rely solely...