Schools, manufacturing facility benefit from plastic cooling towers
When Joe Matthews, vice president of construction at Vista Air Services in Houston, was considering a self-contained, water-cooled HVAC system for a customer near Galveston Bay, he primarily had system efficiencies on his mind. However, since a cooling tower would be essential to the system, he was also concerned about the salt air and corrosive emissions from several surrounding chemical plants that would corrode a conventional, metal-clad cooling tower shell, making frequent maintenance and replacement necessary over the years.
The application was for a 66,000-sq-ft industrial turbine repair station and training facility at Mitsubishi Power Systems for its power generation turbines.