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Cooling Tower Resource Guide

We have compiled a helpful resource guide for cooling tower enthusiast. If you have additional cooling tower questions or content suggestions, please contact us.

Organizations

• The Cooling Tower Institute's mission (CTI): CTI is a cooling tower advocate who promotes the use of environmentally friendly responsible Evaporative Heat Transfer Systems (EHTS), cooling towers, and cooling technology for the benefit of the public.
• American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE): ASHRAE's mission is to advance the arts and sciences of heating, ventilating, air-conditioning and refrigerating to serve humanity and promote a sustainable world.
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): The EPA provides rules and implementation information for industrial cooling towers.  
• Refrigeration Service Engineers Society (RSES): RSES's mission it to provide opportunities for enhanced technical competence by offering comprehensive, cutting-edge education and certification to our members and the HVACR industry.
• Alliance for Water Efficiency: The Alliance for Water Efficiency provides a helpful introduction to Cooling Towers.  

Informational Sites and Blogs

• Cheresources.com: Chemical Engineering Tools and Information: Provides cooling tower design and operation considerations.
• Engineering Toolbox: How to calculate cooling tower efficiency
• NuclearTourist.com: Types of cooling towers
• MechGuru: How a cooling tower works
• MuseumStuff.com: Wet cooling tower material balance

Sizing Tools and Wet Bulb Calculators

• Cooling Tower Sizing Tool: This tool is intended to aid users in selecting the proper cooling tower model and/or proper number of cooling towers based on the specific thermal, hydraulic, and climate conditions.
• Wet Bulb Calculator: This tool is intended to aid users in converting known dry bulb temperatures and corresponding humidity into an approximate wet bulb temperature.
• Wet Bulb by Location Lookup: This tool is intended to help users select an appropriate design wet bulb for a specific location.

Cooling Tower Suppliers

• Midwest Towers: New cooling tower construction, reconstruction, emergency repair and parts

Video

• The natural draft cooling tower: How a cooling tower works and why some power plants use cooling towers to protect the environment.
• A look inside a cooling tower: See the inside design of a cooling tower

Animation

• Cooling Tower Animation

Forums

• HVAC-Talk: Heating, Air & Refrigeration discussion
• HVAC Web Connection: An online directory and information site offering current news, events, job listings, and training resources for industry professionals.

Glossaries

• The Cooling Tower Institute's Glossary: CTI's list of industry terms and definitions
• Cooling Tower Glossary
• Cooling Tower FAQs

Directories

• Automation Engineering Information
• Industry Directory
• Water and Wasterwater.com

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