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Thermal Performance Testing Services
Large field-erected cooling towers are a substantial investment and impactful to the performance of associated equipment. In order to ensure that you “got-what-you-paid-for”, many cooling tower contracts include a final milestone payment tied to demonstration of guaranteed performance through independent testing. CleanAir performs these performance tests as a CTI licensed test agent under the guidelines of ATC-105. An ATC-105 test is a rigorous test that translates performance from off-design conditions to equivalent performance when the tested tower is operated at design water flow rate, heat load, inlet wet bulb temperature, and fan motor power.
Cooling tower thermal performance typically degrades slowly over time hiding the negative impact to plant and process efficiencies. Often other equipment such as turbines, boilers and chillers attract more day-to-day focus, but cooling towers maintain a vital role in fulfilling production and efficiency objectives. A cooling tower thermal performance test can separate the cooling tower from other components in the heat rejection cycle and provide necessary data to conduct the economic evaluations to evaluate the potential financial impacts of cooling tower modifications.