Customs Built Cooling Towers
Occasionally, you simply can’t purchase the tower you need for your specific application because of poor water quality, chemistry, excessive suspended solids, or exceedingly high entering water temperatures.
We have designed and built cooling towers specifically to fit the footprint of existing Marley and GCT cooling towers where space limitations prohibited the installation of a new “stock” model. These installations require no changes to the steel grillage, piping arrangement, or even the anchor bolt-down locations—saving our clients time and money.
We have designed and built custom towers constructed of hot-dipped galvanized steel collection basins and structural framework where, due to water chemical reactivity, a stainless steel cooling tower was not an option. These applications prohibited standard CTI recommended G-235 mil galvanized steel as accelerated corrosion would occur due to entering water temperatures exceeding 140°F combined total suspended solids in excess of 1,000 PPM.
Always willing to do what the larger manufacturers can’t do, Cyrco will assist you in designing a custom tower to meet your individual application.
Power consumption (horsepower)
Methods of reducing power consumption include:
Utilizing a two-speed motor, which allows motor speed to be decreased when demand on a cooling tower is down.
Utilizing a variable-speed drive, which provides a much larger range of control and has the ability to match motor speed with the demand required.
Reducing the cooling tower’s footprint. The amount of air required to cool a certain amount of water remains constant regardless of the footprint, assuming the conditions and fill media remain the same. The work required to move air through a tower increases as the size of the tower decreases, and vice versa. The more efficiently water is cooled, the lower the power demand. However, there are limitations to how the size of a cooling tower’s footprint can reduce power consumption.
Selecting a high-efficiency fan allows more motor power to be applied to the work of pulling or moving air through the fill in a tower.