Dry Cooling Tower vs. Wet Cooling Tower Feature Dry Cooling Tower Wet Cooling Tower (Evaporative) Principle Sensible Heat Transfer (like a car radiator) Latent Heat Transfer (evaporation) Water Usage Very Low. Only minor makeup water for the closed loop. Very High. Continuous water loss due to evaporation, drift, and blowdown....
A Dry Cooling Tower is a heat rejection device that cools a working fluid (most often water or a water-glycol mixture) without direct contact with the air and without any water loss through evaporation. Think of it as a giant, industrial-sized radiator, similar in principle to the radiator in your car. It uses the principles...