How to Use cooling tower in a Sentence
cooling tower
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There was a small electrical fire in a cooling tower on the roof of Trump Tower.
—Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Jan. 2018
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The cause was a bacteria growing in the cooling tower of the hotel’s AC system.
—Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2021
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The city also wants Birkla to remove the metal cooling tower on top of the building.
—Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 22 Sep. 2022
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Most of the water is used to cool the plant down; in cooling towers, water is boiled into giant clouds of fog called cooling plumes.
—Angela Chen, The Verge, 8 June 2018
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Scroll down for more Early Prime Day deals on other cooling tower fans.
—Stephanie Osmanski, Southern Living, 3 July 2023
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La Scola and Desnues found Sputnik in the unlikeliest of places – the dirty water of a Parisian cooling tower.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2011
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To keep it cool on hot days, data centers need to pump in water — often to a cooling tower outside its warehouse-sized buildings.
—Matt O’Brien and Hannah Fingerhut, oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
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Most of that loss would come from evaporation from Foxconn cooling towers.
—Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2018
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Until recently, Noya’s strategy had been to retrofit cooling towers in order to engage in CDR at the same time the towers cooled air.
—Hersh Shefrin, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
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Russia’s new floating power plant, the entire barge-like ship holding the reactors, is just 3 to 5 percent of the total volume of one large cooling tower on land.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Dec. 2019
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Officials said the biggest concerns are exposed rebar in the parking garage and corroded steel beams and pipe support for the cooling tower.
—Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Aug. 2021
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In January, another smaller fire broke out in a cooling tower on the roof of the building, injuring two people.
—Chas Danner, Daily Intelligencer, 7 Apr. 2018
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Legionella bacteria can be aerosolized through cooling towers, showers and hot tubs, the statement said.
—Jessica Villagomez, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2019
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Some of the most common culprits in the spread of the disease are cooling towers, humidifiers, hot water tanks and condensers in large air-conditioning units.
—Zoe Greenberg, New York Times, 12 July 2018
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Water withdrawn to run through a cooling tower and that evaporates is consumptive.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 9 Nov. 2019
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From there, that wastewater might, for example, be treated for reuse, rerouted to a sewer, or cleaned and redirected to cooling towers.
—Rebecca Heilweil, WIRED, 19 July 2023
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In the unlikely scenario that both the grid and the power plant weren’t working, the hospital has backup generators near a silver cooling tower.
—Blake Nelsonstaff Reporter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023
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The cooling tower has been taken out of service, and investigators continue to seek other sources for the outbreak.
—Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Aug. 2022
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Water in showers, hot tubs and cooling towers that are part of big air conditioning systems are all common sources of infection.
—Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
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The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy has long pushed the utility to switch to cooling towers, a more widely used technology that would allow the canals to return to wetlands.
—Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 6 Apr. 2018
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Nowadays Nogent-sur-Seine, 60 miles southeast of Paris, is known for its nuclear power plant, whose two cooling towers loom surreally over the Seine.
—A.j. Goldmann, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2017
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Water that sits stagnant in old pipes, cooling towers or hotel rooms can become a breeding ground for the dangerous bacteria to grow and fester when water is not cool or hot enough.
—Lauren Weber, chicagotribune.com, 8 Nov. 2019
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Many businesses were forced to shut down for the day and air-conditioning units in high-rise buildings couldn’t work because their cooling towers needed water to operate.
—Larry Barszewski, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2019
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The system collects water from rain, cooling towers, showers, toilets, and sinks, then circulates it through a multistep treatment process in the basement.
—WIRED, 17 June 2023
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Officials announced in early June that the bacteria was discovered in cooling towers on three buildings and in three bathrooms.
—Ann Zaniewski, Detroit Free Press, 2 July 2018
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Some in town believe that the plant will employ cheap Chinese labor, instead of local workers, and erect cooling towers to conceal ballistic missiles.
—Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
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The cooling tower on Towers Residential Suites remains shut down.
—Ann Zaniewski, Detroit Free Press, 2 July 2018
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Plant operators might save on costs, with transmission lines, cooling towers, office buildings, and roads already in place.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023
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Just as in other industrial settings, cooling towers are an inherent part of the power plant’s steam cycle.
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 June 2018
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That means waste heat, vented from cooling towers, losing 30 to 40 percent of the energy created by combustion.
—David Roberts, Vox, 1 June 2018
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