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Cooling Tower Fire Caused by Debris
FM Certification Questions Answered

We received a comment on our first FM Approvals blog post and decided to dedicate another post to the answer. You can check out the original article and comment here. In a nutshell, the user commented that FM certification is…

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How do you minimize Legionella bacteria contamination?

Since Legionella bacteria are present in almost every ground and surface water, it should be noted that the vast majority of cooling towers will have some level of the bacteria in their circulating water.  The issue then becomes how best…

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Water Distribution
Cross-stacking Improves Cooling Tower Water Distribution

We recently had a question about the installation scheme of our cross-fluted fill in a tower with 3 feet of fill depth.  When installing [3] 1-foot-deep layers, or any more than [1] layer, of fill we highly recommend that each layer…

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Drift Supporters
Crossflow Drift Eliminator Supports

Brentwood produces several drift eliminator supports for crossflow cooling tower applications which require non-integral drift eliminators, such as XF150MAx and XF80MAx. The drift eliminator supports offered include XF600, top/bottom profile, intermediate profile, and XF column-mounts. How do you apply each of…

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