In any business venture or other organization, relying on doing things the way they have always been done can be detrimental to real progress and improvement. Certainly, incorporating change has risk, but careful consideration and planning can make deciding upon and implementing change a big win for an organization.
Cooling towers are common elements of heat rejection systems, like building HVAC and industrial process cooling. By design, cooling towers have large wetted surfaces in almost continuous contact with aggressive solutions of water and various chemicals used to maintain certain fluid conditions. Many towers are constructed using metal for the wetted parts and case of the unit. This has traditionally been an area of concern with cooling tower ownership, since the combined elements of water, treatment chemicals, and time take their inevitable toll on the equipment.
There is a good solution to the deterioration of metal clad cooling towers. Construction utilizing high-density polyethylene (HDPE). HDPE is impervious to corrosive water treatment chemicals and elements often present in the air, whether harsh chemical vapors emitted from nearby industrial plants or natural corrosives such as salt air.
Delta Cooling Towers, Inc. is a US based manufacturer of HDPE cooling towers with a substantial portfolio of completed projects. Below is a short case study showing how one industrial user benefited from installing HDPE cooling towers.