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Cooling tower performance is key to ensuring that the cooling demands of your operation are met. When cooling towers are not maintained properly, they can halt production, reduce productivity, increase maintenance costs and become a health hazard.
At Baptist Healthcare System, Louisville, Ky., two cooling towers had to be taken out of operation for scheduled maintenance twice a year. According to Gilbert Fister, properties manager for BHE's campus buildings, "In the spring and summer, Mayflies, pine needles and other matter would seriously clog our fill material and basin strainers and trigger a series of other operational problems."
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