CTP Method: Diagnostic method for control of cooling tower operation

Optimal operation of cooling towers of thermal systems, such as fossil-fired power plants, nuclear power plants, heating plants, thermal systems in process and petro-chemical industry, significantly raises the efficiency of the entire systems. With the reconstruction of cooling towers and introduction of new technologies significant economic and ecologic profits could be expected. The increased system efficiency after cooling tower reconstruction is estimated from 2 to 5 %, what is an enormous amount of energy and money saving considering the output power of such systems. Within the frame of the EU Copernicus Project OCTEBAMA, a modification of the described method was performed.