Pultruded FRP offers several benefits over traditional material like timber and concrete in terms of cost, weight savings, strength, corrosion, rotting decay, life, design and assembly.

The average life expectancy of a pultruded FRP cooling tower is 15 – 20 years. However, the maximum life can go more than 20 years.

The fundamental difference between crossflow and counterflow cooling towers is the direction of the air flow in relation to the water flow. However counterflow towers are thermally more efficient than crossflow for a given space (footprint).

The most efficient way to design a cooling tower is to fix the process parameters like entering and leaving water temperature, wet bulb temperature including psychometric properties and designed circulating water flow rate.

The right cooling tower fill material is selected as per the working temperature and conditions. When the working temperature is below 65 0C, we choose PVC fills and PP fills when it exceeds 65 0C.

The type fills are generally selected based on circulating water quality and thermal performance requirement. Film fills are more efficient than splash fills, but it can easily foul which reduces the cooling tower performance. Generally it is a trade-off between balancing thermal performance with fouling resistance. But we always ensure to meet performance requirements.

The American regulatory body Cooling Technology Institute (CTI) regulates the standards and acceptance testing code for the cooling tower industry.

We evaluate our installed cooling tower by conducting a performance test after commissioning as per CTI ATC-105 guidelines.

The results of the cooling tower thermal performance test are expressed in terms of water cooling capability. Tower capability is the thermal performance result calculated for a test conducted in accordance with the ATC-105. Tower capability is defined as the ratio of the adjusted water flow rate (or L/G) at the test conditions expressed as a percent.