Cooling tower facts for kids

Kids Encyclopedia Facts
Didcot power station cooling tower zootalures
Natural draft wet cooling hyperboloid towers at Didcot Power Station (UK)
Cooling tower power station Dresden
"Camouflaged" natural draft wet cooling tower near Dresden (Germany)

Cooling towers are towers that are used to transfer waste heat to the atmosphere. Cooling towers may use the evaporation of water to remove heat and cool the working fluid to near the wet-bulb air temperature. They may also use only air to cool the working fluid to near the dry-bulb air temperature. Cooling towers are used in oil refineries, petrochemical plants and power stations.

Images for kids

  • Power station Westfalen. Cooling towers

    Forced draft wet cooling towers (height: 34 meters) and natural draft wet cooling tower (height: 122 meters) in Westfalen, Germany.

  • Power station mainz.conceptual design.direction southeast

    Cooling tower (forced draft) attached to a power station

  • Barnard's fanless self-cooling tower

    A 1902 engraving of "Barnard's fanless self-cooling tower", an early large evaporative cooling tower that relied on natural draft and open sides rather than a fan; water to be cooled was sprayed from the top onto the radial pattern of vertical wire-mesh mats.

  • Loop Shopping Centre Exterior I

    Two HVAC cooling towers on the rooftop of a shopping center (Germany)

  • Cenk Endustri Field Erected Industrial Cooling Tower

    Industrial cooling towers for a power plant

  • Field erected cooling tower

    Field erected cooling tower

  • Brotep Eco coolin tower

    Brotep-Eco cooling tower

  • Package type cooling tower

    Package cooling tower

  • Stairway to nowhere^ - geograph.org.uk - 455003

    Access stairs at the base of a massive hyperboloid cooling tower give a sense of its scale (UK)

  • Factory assembled crossflow

    Mechanical draft crossflow cooling tower used in an HVAC application

  • Crossflow Cooling tower

    Forced draft counter flow package type cooling towers

  • CoolingTower

    Fan-induced draft, counter-flow cooling tower

  • Legionella pneumophila (SEM) 2

    Legionella pneumophila (5000x magnification)

  • Floor of cooling tower, Iru Power Plant, 2

    Fill plates at the bottom of the Iru Power Plant cooling tower (Estonia). Tower is shut down, revealing numerous water spray heads.

  • Clouds, natural and otherwise - geograph.org.uk - 778331

    Fog clouds produced by Eggborough Power Plant (UK)

  • Песочин ТЭЦ5 Градирни VizuIMG 2181

    Large hyperboloid cooling towers made of structural steel for a power plant in Kharkov (Ukraine)

  • Chimney included in cooling tower

    Flue gas stack inside a natural draft wet cooling tower

  • Power station Duisburg Walsum

    Flue gas stack connection into a natural draft wet cooling tower


All content from Kiddle encyclopedia articles (including the article images and facts) can be freely used under Attribution-ShareAlike license, unless stated otherwise. Cite this article:
Cooling tower Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia.