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Originally Posted by karenoliver
Thanks a lot Nick for the feedback. :-) Does the steam from these polute the atmosphere or is it safer than most industrial vapours?
Karen
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There shouldn't be
any pollution to the atmosphere from these cooling towers.* The towers are used to condensate and recover water from the steam that has been used on the heat exchanger of a power or chemical plant. The water used is in a separate system to the water/steam used to drive the turbines, so shouldn't become contaminated/irradiated.
Ah ha, just found a good diagram to show how the systems work -
http://www.industry-animated.org/tea...towers_pdf.pdf and here is some more information about nuclear cooling towers
http://www.hiroshimasyndrome.com/the...ing-tower.html
* I'm not sure if water vapour is classified a pollutant to the atmosphere, but as clouds are made of the same stuff, I doubt it.
Regards
Nick