Cooling Tower Analysis is a powerful, user friendly, program for the analysis of induced, mechanical-draft, counterflow cooling towers.

The program can be used for the analysis of existing towers or for the preparation of specifications for new towers.

The program calculates the heat transfer characteristic, KaV/L, also known as the number of diffusion units, which is a measure of the degree of difficulty of the cooling process and is proportional to the cost of the tower.

One important use of this value is in the testing of an existing cooling tower in accordance with the Cooling Tower Institute's, ATC-105 testing procedure.

In addition, the program develops the true water evaporated based on rigorous formulations, not on rules of thumb. Also calculated is the blowdown required to maintain the given cycles of concentration.

An interesting website that explains all types of cooling towers can be found at  www.ctdoc.com.