What are the consequences of a poorly efficient cooling tower?

The lower the efficiency of a tower the more serious the situation in terms of performance and productivity. The tower is part of an overall system designed to dispose residual heat from a production plant or at least from an aforetime primary system. A decreasing of efficiency in cooling tower affects the yield of the primary system with a considerable waste of energy and, especially, reduced production.

Counter-flow heat exchanger that removes heat from water and transfers it to air.

A cooling tower can also be defined as a cross-flow heat exchanger that removes heat from water and transfers it to air. 

Click on "Energy Loop Assessment for Water Cooling Tower" to see how to assess energy in a production plant scenario served by a water cooling tower and to see the correlation between energy, efficiency and productivity.