Cooling Towers Designed for Sustainability
Tower Tech modular cooling towers are designed differently – by using highest-quality composites and rethinking traditional cooling tower design.
Don't choose between today's business goals and tomorrow's decarbonization strategy. Choosing Tower Tech means investing in the most sustainably efficient cooling tower on the market.
Cooling Towers Made from Long-Lasting FRP
Conventional cooling towers are made of wood or steel, each which bring different sustainability challenges. Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) avoids these issues from a molecular level.
Wood and steel naturally degrade when exposed to water. Wood rots, steel corrodes. The cooling tower industry has found ways to overcome these material challenges. Cooling tower-grade wood must be treated with water-resistant chemicals, and metal towers must be made of at least galvanized steel or, preferably, stainless steel. Wood treatment chemicals can threaten the local ecosystem, and sourcing wood requires deforestation. Steel offers a per-kilogram best carbon footprint compared to other materials, but it's also the heaviest. This means that the per-kilogram advantages are lost in a much higher total material weight per tower. And it also means transporting less material in more loads to sites, which can increase carbon outputs.
As an advanced material, FRP composites can be produced on-demand in any quantity without deforestation, and companies like Tower Tech's parent company, Creative Composites Group (CCG), are leading efforts to further refine recycling processes.
FRP is inherently corrosion resistant, making it ideal for use in moist, wet or corrosive environments. Its light weight, bottom-mounted fans and modular design also permits more towers to fit in a smaller space without additional roof reinforcements.
