Peter Nachtwey
Member
If this is a power plant with a turbine, it would be nice to know up front. Why must we, mostly drbitboy, always need to pull teeth.Of course, I inferred a lot of teeth there and I could be completely off base. It wouldn't be the first time.
Ex-Nuke here.
I think drbitboy did a pretty good job but water that goes through the turbine does not go through the cooling tower. The water chemistry of what goes through the turbine is very tightly controlled. If there is a turbine, it has a condenser that cools the turbine water and create a vacuum as the stead condenses to water, that "sucks" more steam through the turbine. The water that cools the condenser goes to the cooling tower.
In my experience it was sea water that cooled the condenser. Land based systems have cooling towers for dissipating heat.