One of the most common uses of rental cooling towers is to aid in planned repairs of existing counterflow and crossflow cooling towers. In many instances, planned repairs for cooling towers start during a planned turnaround. Ideally, the turnaround time period is lengthy enough to complete all desired inspections or repairs and the permanent tower is ready to go when the plant or unit comes back online.
More commonly, though, the turnaround time period is not sufficient to complete all the needed work. When this happens, rental cooling towers can be installed next to the permanent tower to act as a replacement “cell” while the repairs or inspections are completed. The installation is simple and can be done in less than five days in most instances. The power requirements are relatively low, and the flexibility of location is high. Having tie in points identified and installed prior to starting the work is key to a smooth transition and can greatly reduce the risk of the project and increase the reliability of the facility.
Additionally, more and more refiners and chemical producers are using rental cooling towers as a way to reduce risk and stay at full rates when forced to do cooling tower repairs outside of a turnaround. Modular cooling towers are perfectly designed to scale up or down based on your cooling demand. These modules can be installed safely and, in most cases, can be tied into the cooling water return line easily. Once the connection is made, hot water can be diverted to the rental towers and gravity-fed back into the tower basin.
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