How to Use cooling tower in a Sentence

cooling tower

noun

• There was a small electrical fire in a cooling tower on the roof of Trump Tower.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Jan. 2018
• The cause was a bacteria growing in the cooling tower of the hotel’s AC system.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• The city also wants Birkla to remove the metal cooling tower on top of the building.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 22 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Scroll down for more Early Prime Day deals on other cooling tower fans.
  — Stephanie Osmanski, Southern Living, 3 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• Most of that loss would come from evaporation from Foxconn cooling towers.
  — Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Legionella bacteria can be aerosolized through cooling towers, showers and hot tubs, the statement said.
  — Jessica Villagomez, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2019
• 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
• Water withdrawn to run through a cooling tower and that evaporates is consumptive.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 9 Nov. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The cooling tower on Towers Residential Suites remains shut down.
  — Ann Zaniewski, Detroit Free Press, 2 July 2018
• Plant operators might save on costs, with transmission lines, cooling towers, office buildings, and roads already in place.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023
• Just as in other industrial settings, cooling towers are an inherent part of the power plant’s steam cycle.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 June 2018
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024