When we see these things, many people think that these are pipes from which smoke is coming. They are usually located near the power plant, but these structures are correctly called cooling towers or tower type cooling towers.
See what is inside the cooling tower.
And inside the cooling tower, when it is working, there is a constant rainstorm, because hot water is raised to a height and sprayed with nozzles downward, and air moves towards the water.
Due to the fact that the air moves upward, it cools the falling water and we see steam at the exit from the cooling tower!
The principle of operation of a cooling tower can be summarized as a diagram below:
From the history of the cooling tower
The first cooling tower was built in 1918 in the Netherlands in the city of Heerlen in the very south of the country. The creator of the hyperbolic cooling tower was the professor of mechanical engineering Frederick van Iterson.
This is how this "thing" looked then.
The tallest cooling tower in Russia is located at the Rostov nuclear power plant. Its height is 175 meters. In Belarus, the highest cooling tower is the cooling tower of the Belarusian nuclear power plant. Height - 167 meters! But the world's tallest cooling tower is located in India in the state of Rajasthan. She is listed for Kalisind CHP. Its height is 202 meters!
Abandoned cooling towers love to use rope jumpers and skydivers, but remember, any entertainment at technological facilities is dangerous!
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