cooling plant

cooling plant (plural cooling plants)

1. A facility for the purpose of cooling something.
   • 1937, United States. Bureau of Reclamation, Completion of Grand Coulee Dam Left Powerhouse and, page 77:

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

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

     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.

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

     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.

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

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

2. A facility for producing a medium (such as ice) that is used for cooling.
   • 1936, Alonzo Plumsted Kratz, Harold Eaton Babbitt, Paul Howard Black, The Biologic Digestion of Garbage with Sewage Sludge, page 30:

     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.

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

     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.