Application Profiles
Industrial Cooling Towers
Industrial Cooling Towers
Utilizing the Inherent Benefits of Precast
Precast, prestressed concrete offers significant advantages for industrial cooling towers, compared to conventional cast-in-place, fiberglass and wood construction. Precast framing is inherently durable, lightweight and fire resistant. It dampens vibrations and withstands high winds. These features work together to ensure a long life-span and reduced life cycle maintenance costs for cooling towers.
Precast, prestressed concrete offers significant advantages for industrial cooling towers, compared to conventional cast-in-place, fiberglass and wood construction. Precast framing is inherently durable, lightweight and fire resistant. It dampens vibrations and withstands high winds. These features work together to ensure a long life-span and reduced life cycle maintenance costs for cooling towers.
Projects
Design Features
Structural Elements
Functional Characteristics
Cope Cooling Towers
Cope, SC
Highlights: 14 cells in 1 row, each served by a 36-ft-diameter fan
Canadys Cooling Tower
Canadys, SC
Highlights: 10 cells in 2 rows
Hamon Cooling Tower
Baxley, GA
Highlights: 10 cells in 2 rows
Gantt Cooling Tower
Andalusia, AL
Highlights: 7 cells
Santee Cooper Cooling Tower Station No. 3 & 4
Cross, SC
Highlights: 12 cells in a circular configuration
Cope, SC
Highlights: 14 cells in 1 row, each served by a 36-ft-diameter fan
Canadys Cooling Tower
Canadys, SC
Highlights: 10 cells in 2 rows
Hamon Cooling Tower
Baxley, GA
Highlights: 10 cells in 2 rows
Gantt Cooling Tower
Andalusia, AL
Highlights: 7 cells
Santee Cooper Cooling Tower Station No. 3 & 4
Cross, SC
Highlights: 12 cells in a circular configuration
- Factory-controlled strength and uniformity for longer life-span
- Reduced interior and exterior maintenance
- Inherent durability, vibration resistance and factory-controlled strength
- Engineered to withstand seismic activity, hurricanes and tornadoes
- Inherent fire resistance with no additional costs
- Concrete does not burn, emit toxic fumes or drip molten particles
- Slow heat transfer rate provides a fire shield between adjacent spaces
- Can be designed to compartmentalize fire into small containment areas
- Accommodate substantial lateral loading with special reinforced concrete shear walls and robust pillars
- Precisely positioned joints prevent formation of cracks and eliminates corrosion of reinforcing steel
- Resists normal weathering action and abrasion
- Effective support for industrial fans producing up to 50,000 ft-lb of torque and 4,000 lb of downward force
- Fans mounted to precast concrete columns dampen equipment vibration and reduce bearing wear
- Reduced long-term maintenance costs