How to Use cooling tower in a Sentence

cooling tower

noun
  • All of the buildings had been directed to clean their cooling towers.
    Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 14 July 2026
  • The source of the cluster is believed to be a cooling tower in the area, according to the agency.
    Melina Khan, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2025
  • These cooling towers are a good medium for these bacteria, which look like rods, to multiply and grow.
    Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 15 July 2026
  • Scroll down for more Early Prime Day deals on other cooling tower fans.
    Stephanie Osmanski, Southern Living, 3 July 2023
  • Most of the water is used to cool the plant down; in cooling towers, water is boiled into giant clouds of fog called cooling plumes.
    Angela Chen, The Verge, 8 June 2018
  • Most of that loss would come from evaporation from Foxconn cooling towers.
    Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2018
  • The city also wants Birkla to remove the metal cooling tower on top of the building.
    Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Legionella bacteria can be found in soil and in water systems, such as cooling towers, hot tubs and water tanks.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Freep.com, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Water withdrawn to run through a cooling tower and that evaporates is consumptive.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 9 Nov. 2019
  • Legionella bacteria can be aerosolized through cooling towers, showers and hot tubs, the statement said.
    Jessica Villagomez, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2019
  • To keep it cool on hot days, data centers need to pump in water — often to a cooling tower outside its warehouse-sized buildings.
    Matt O’Brien and Hannah Fingerhut, oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The city health department said the outbreak is linked to cooling towers, heat exchangers that use fans and water to cool down buildings.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
  • This included testing water from cooling towers in large buildings.
    Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Legionella bacteria grow in warm water and can spread in cooling towers, hot tubs and showerheads.
    ABC News, 17 July 2026
  • The cause was a bacteria growing in the cooling tower of the hotel’s AC system.
    Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Adding cooling towers to nuclear and large coal or natural gas facilities is one kind of retrofit.
    Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • Fabs also use water to run cooling towers and scrubbers — systems that remove gas pollutants from the plants' exhaust.
    Austin Corona, The Arizona Republic, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Not everyone has the space for a massive cooling tower or a dedicated console corner to curb their gaming hunger.
    Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Water in showers, hot tubs and cooling towers that are part of big air conditioning systems are all common sources of infection.
    Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The outbreak in Central Harlem has been linked to cooling towers in the area, according to the city health department.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Plant operators might save on costs, with transmission lines, cooling towers, office buildings, and roads already in place.
    IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Just as in other industrial settings, cooling towers are an inherent part of the power plant’s steam cycle.
    IEEE Spectrum, 8 June 2018
  • Health officials have focused on testing cooling towers that are part of air conditioning systems for large buildings.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026
  • For starters, air chillers require substantially more electricity compared with cooling towers to expel the same amount of heat.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 16 July 2026
  • Data centers rely on high volumes of water to cool equipment and prevent overheating through cooling towers, chillers, pumps, and pipes.
    Sanam Mahoozi, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
  • From there, that wastewater might, for example, be treated for reuse, rerouted to a sewer, or cleaned and redirected to cooling towers.
    Rebecca Heilweil, WIRED, 19 July 2023
  • The Health Department said all cooling towers in the affected area are being tested.
    Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026
  • The sources turned out to include cooling towers — devices sometimes used for cooling large buildings — at a city-run hospital and the site of the city's public health lab.
    ABC News, 14 July 2026
  • Officials said the biggest concerns are exposed rebar in the parking garage and corroded steel beams and pipe support for the cooling tower.
    Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Aug. 2021
  • Common sources of infection include water in showers, hot tubs and cooling towers that are part of big air conditioning systems.
    Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2023

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