Lease, Lease-Purchase or CAPEX? How Best to Fund Your Cooling System Upgrade
Why the Funding Route Matters (Cash Flow, Tax & Speed) When you know a cooling upgrade will cut downtime and energy spend, the next...
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Cooling Tower/Adiabatic Cooler vs Chiller: Which is Cheaper for Process Cooling?
When industrial cooling is needed on a manufacturing site, a common question arises: what’s cheaper to run – a cooling tower/adiabatic cooler or a...
GRP vs PU vs Epoxy Lining: Best Cooling Tower Coatings Compared
As I mentioned in my recent article comparing GRP with steel casing materials, cooling towers typically last between 20 and 35 years. Over that...
GRP, Steel & More: Which Cooling Tower Casing is Best Continued….?
Material Corrosion Resistance Mechanical Strength Fire Resistance Cost Typical Use Case Notes Galvanised Steel ⭐ – Low in coastal/acidic areas ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Good ⭐⭐⭐⭐...
Battery Processing Plant Replaces Cooling Tower in 7-day Shutdown
Client: Battery Processing Plant, Derbyshire, UK Project Duration: 7 days from tower, pump and pipework installation to commissioning Overview: Vistech Cooling Systems was contracted...
GRP vs Steel Cooling Towers – Which Casing Material is Right For You?
GRP vs Steel & Why the Casing Material Matters The grudge match is on…who will conquer…will it be the gleaming shiny heavyweight stainless casing...
Open and Closed Circuit Cooling Towers: Which is Best for My Site?
Now we’ve established the three main cooling tower designs, there is now a further choice to make. When it comes to replacing towers, this...
Steel, GRP, or Something in Between? Which Lasts Longer?
Now we’ve covered the different designs of tower and my ‘non-biased’ view of closed-circuit ones (you can still have one if you want one),...
How can UK manufacturers improve sustainability with Efficient Cooling Tower Control?
Manufacturers’ Commitment to Net Zero and Energy Efficiency If you are a manufacturer, which many of our clients are, energy usage and the associated...
Understanding Cooling Tower Designs: Induced Draft vs. Forced Draft vs. Crossflow
Industrial cooling towers come in several configurations, but most UK manufacturing sites with existing towers will have one of these three types: What Are...