cooling water
Industrial temperature regulator
Cooling water is water used to absorb and carry away heat from machinery, industrial processes, or power plants.
It circulates through systems to prevent overheating: The reactor uses river water as cooling water.
Power stations and factories often discharge warming cooling water back into natural bodies of water, raising environmental concerns about thermal pollution.
- thermal pollutionHarmful temperature increase in water
- condenserDevice that liquefies gases
- heat exchangerTransfers thermal energy between media
- closed loopSystem with continuous feedback
- open loopControl without feedback
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- steelmakingblast furnace, molten steel, steel production, basic oxygen furnace, steel mills
- condenserscondensate
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