Cooling tower blowdown definition

Cooling tower blowdown means water purged from a closed cycle cooling system. Closed cycle cooling systems include cooling towers, cooling ponds, or spray canals.
Cooling tower blowdown means waste water discharged from the Nitric Acid Facility meeting the specifications in Schedule 5.
Cooling tower blowdown means water that is periodically or, in some cases, continuously purged from a recirculating cooling system that uses an open tower to dissipate heat. Blowdown is discharged from the system to prevent the buildup of materials in the cooling water above the limits of best engineering practice.

Examples of Cooling tower blowdown in a sentence

  • Cooling tower blowdown has a high concentration of dissolved solids and must be treated in order to prevent the possibility of contamination of surrounding surface water with inorganic salts.

  • Cooling tower blowdown is required to maintain dissolved solids in the recirculating cooling water at acceptable levels.

  • Cooling tower blowdown is discharged back to the Connecticut River.