Today's Industrial Products and Solutions February 2019 | Page 18

keep the hydraulic fluids at a stable 110 degrees (F).” Extending the benefits Then earlier this year, Patriot Forge acquired an additional twin cell HDPE cooling tower to help cool the quench tanks that are part of the company’s heat treat system in Building Two. “Both of the quench tanks are 105,000 gallons, and we use the cooling towers to help maintain a heat level of approximately 100 degrees (F)”, Hynes says. The cooling towers that Patriot Forge selected for this building were the same design as the one selected as a replacement in Building One, Delta TM Series Induced Draft models. One of the unique benefits of the TM Series towers is the ability to configure them in combination of up to six units with cooling capacity from 250 to 2,500 cooling tons. This modular design gives companies the opportunity to conveniently add cooling towers as their processing grows. The new, cooling towers installed at Building Two are installed in a two-cell 16 TIPS Magazine • February ‘19 configuration with combined cooling capacity of 836 cooling tons. “We decided on this size and configuration because the quench tanks in Building Two are much larger,” says Hynes. “So, there is a lot more water you have to process through the towers.” He notes that installation of the factory-assembled cooling towers was relatively easy. “The HDPE plastic towers are lighter, so we were able to use a smaller crane to install them, which was much more convenient than having to deal with larger, bulkier cranes.” Hynes says the towers feature vibration sensors on all fans, which eliminates the need to climb the towers in order to check out the operating performance of the fans, a benefit that Hynes feels is particularly appealing because one of the towers tops out at a daunting 65 ft. – “a long way up. ”For more information, contact Delta Cooling Towers, Inc.; [phone]; email: [email protected]; or visit the web site: www.deltacooling.com •