Harnessing Cooling Tower Plumes to Provide Purified Water

A novel technology that is surprisingly simple in principle promises to significantly reduce water consumption in evaporative cooling tower systems by capturing water from cooling tower plumes. Sonal Patel

A novel technology that is surprisingly simple in principle promises to significantly reduce water consumption in evaporative cooling tower systems by capturing water from cooling tower plumes. Cooling towers at power plants are essentially heat rejection systems that use significant quantities of water to dissipate heat from recirculating water. In wet cooling towers, the process involves evaporating a portion of the circulating water, producing heat transfer through both sensible heat of air and latent heat of evaporation. A longstanding concern in the power industry involves the amount of w

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