Current Interesting Link - Cooling Tower Piping

www.pipingdesign.com, see "Current Interesting Link".

<<A well designed piping system is essential for the proper operation of a cooling tower. Two types of systems are examined -- open and closed. In the open cooling tower, system water is open to the atmosphere as it cascades over the wet deck and falls into the cooling tower basin. The closed tower --sometimes called a "closed circuit fluid cooler"-- has the system water contained within a coil and segregated from the water that is evaporating. This is covered near the end of this chapter.>>

I've wondered - is there a perceived "sexiness" (to borrow a phrase) associated with working with the more exotic products when we think about piping design? I.E., the more esoteric the fluid, the more interesting the engineering and design details. If that's true, then the relatively mundane role of the typical cooling water system must be one of the lowest regarded. But then also, the CW lines are often the biggest boys on the rack and take priority simply due to the cost of installation, and I've seen entire buildings moved to accomodate them. Received on Mon Mar 01 20:57:00 2004