cooling plant

plural cooling plants

1. A facility for the purpose of cooling something.

   Then, having driven through a high-security gate, you’re surrounded by towering chimneys, pipework, chugging cooling plants, everything dressed in steampunk.

   December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian

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   The cooling plant consists of two barges completely equipped with electrically operated centrifugal pumping units, priming pumping units, control boards, piping, and deck houses.

   1937, United States. Bureau of Reclamation, Completion of Grand Coulee Dam Left Powerhouse and, page 77

   The cooling plant facilities will be a 75 by 100 foot area to accommodate two cooling plants, each with a capacity to cool between 10,000 and 14,000 feet of cable depending on subsurface conditions and topography.

   1981, Arthur Kill Fossil Fueled Power Plant Permit, page 109

   As indicated in the introduction our efforts to find a way of producing low cost cooling calories have led to the design of a steamjet – ejector cooling plant which directly utilizes the steam from an exhaust gas boiler in diesel powered ships or uses bleeding steam in turbine powered ships.

   2014, Yong Zhou, Progress in Refrigeration Science and Technology, page 1750

2. A facility for producing a medium (such as ice) that is used for cooling.

   SEER is the ratio of the total amount of cooling energy provided, divided by the total energy input to the cooling plant ( which may comprise more than one cooling unit) , summed over the year.

   2006, Non-domestic Heating, Cooling and Ventilation Compliance Guide

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   In two series of tests cooling with outdoor air at night was supplemented either by using a restricted amount of ice in the cooling plant during the day, or by using a room-cooling unit located on the first story.

   1936, Alonzo Plumsted Kratz, Harold Eaton Babbitt, Paul Howard Black, The Biologic Digestion of Garbage with Sewage Sludge, page 30