Reliability applied to Cooling Tower Fans and Industrial Air Coolers

Historically, the Cooling Tower fans and Industrial Air Coolers lack a performance monitoring and control, by design, and when they start operating they are submitted to maintenance and inspection plans falling behind the importance of those in relation to the industrial production.

Figures 1 and 2 show typical Cooling Tower and Air Cooler arrangements.

Figure 1 - Industrial Cooling Tower, image by FanTR (2020)