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Flammability of Fills
Test Methods for the Flammability of Cooling Tower Media
Cooling towers are built from several different materials: wood, metal, and plastics just to name a few. Each of these materials of construction has ...
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Cooling Tower Nozzle Importance
How Nozzles Work Within a Cooling Tower System
Why Are Nozzles Important? Everyone knows how important the fill is to a cooling tower’s performance. Since fill is the heat transfer medium around ...
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Cooling tower drift eliminators
How Material of Construction Relates to Drift Elimination
The two most common polymers used in cooling tower fills and drift eliminators are polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and polypropylene (PP). Both materials ...
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How Drift Can Affect Your Process & Components
When referencing the detrimental effects of cooling tower drift, we often discuss emissions levels, lost water, and the cost of treating the water ...
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Does flute geometry and the mode of heat transfer (trickle vs. splash) affect fouling resistance in “wire-frame” cooling tower fills?
At the recently concluded 2017 CTI Annual Conference in New Orleans, Brentwood’s own Angela Zaorski and Bill Miller presented a paper regarding ...
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Cooling Tower Fills & Drift Eliminators
Cooling Tower Water Treatment Recommendations
Brentwood knows that there’s more to your cooling tower than the fill and drift eliminators we supply. In fact, the primary maintenance task ...
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Choosing the right cooling tower fill
Choosing the Right Fill for Your Tower & Application
  A question we often receive is, “How can you be certain that a particular fill will work in my tower?” Well, first, we take a ...
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Choosing The Right Fill Based On Water Quality
Brentwood often gets emails for a situation that goes something like, “Here is a report showing the water for my cooling tower. What fill should I ...
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