Industrial Process Cooling: What to Know
Comparison of cooling technologies: evaporative, adiabatic, air, mechanical. Design and construction of industrial cooling systems. Sectors, case studies, cooling solutions on the market.
Update from the MITA Editorial Team: April 2026.
- What types of industrial cooling technologies are there?
- Cooling Plant Construction: What do you need to know?
- What needs does the Design of Cooling Systems address?
- What are the applications of process cooling technologies?
- Industrial Cooling Plants: Case Studies
- What Process Cooling Solutions are available on the market?
What types of industrial cooling technologies are there?
Evaporative Cooling Systems
Do you want performance and efficiency for your industrial cooling system? Then the cooling towers and evaporative condensers ensure both in an extraordinarily simple way. Innovative technical measures reduce water consumption and noise levels.
Adiabatic Cooling Systems
Extraordinary water and energy savings, optimized performance: adiabatic coolers and condensers are increasingly appreciated by engineers and production managers who seek the right balance between the advantages of the dry and evaporative systems.
Dry Cooling or Air Cooling
Use ease, zero water consumption, the ideal solution for medium-high process fluid temperatures.
Chillers for Industrial Processes
Fluid temperature far below ambient temperature: when this is necessary, mechanical cooling allowed by a chiller for industrial processes must be used.
Cooling Plant Construction: What do you need to know?
Industrial Plant Cooling: 12 + 1 Things to Consider before Looking for a Manufacturer
Is this the first time you have to deal with the cooling of your industrial plant? Or maybe do you wish to see a complete reference framework to carry out this task for your company? These guidelines will help you choose the best cooling technology for your plant's specific project needs.
Resource and Efficiency Optimization of Cooling Systems: How to Assess It
The comparison between different cooling technologies: a calculation software can now fulfill this task based on real climatic data.
Comparison between Cooling Tower and Adiabatic Cooler
Comparison of cooling tower (or evaporative tower) and adiabatic cooler: water and energy use, performance.
Theory of Cooling Technologies
How open and closed circuit cooling towers, evaporative condensers and adiabatic systems work: a quick guide to the knowledge of cooling technologies.
Cooling & Refrigeration Glossary
All about cooling technologies. Technical solutions, components and accessories, physical notions: the terminology of evaporative and adiabatic theory with terms and definitions from A to Z.
European Green Deal and Cooling
The European Commission has set itself the goal of achieving climate parity in 2050. The development of the economy must be sustainable, just think that over 75% of EU28 greenhouse gas emissions are attributable to energy production and the 20% is attributable to the industrial sector.
What needs does the Design of Cooling Systems address?
Design of a New Plant
Let's talk about your project needs: this is where we start to select the cooling technology that best suits your system. Then we will design a truly tailor-made solution, with the required customizations, calculating the optimization of your consumption with advanced tools.
Replacement of a Cooling System
Cooling systems which are corroded or that no longer support initial performance: both can be replaced with the most diverse market solutions. As a premise, a serious pre-analysis must be carried out on the plant requirements.
Cooling System Upgrade
A few, necessary steps are enough. An industrial cooler must support all kinds of new requirement in the industrial or civil process: higher temperature ranges, water and energy optimization, new sound levels.
Revamping and Retrofitting of Cooling Systems
Refurbishment of large towers or targeted anti-corrosion interventions, change of internal components and retrofitting with subcooling: it is not always necessary to replace a cooler or an industrial chiller. It is often more useful to give it a plus.
What are the applications of process cooling technologies?
Cooling Systems in Food Industry
In the food industry, cooling systems play a crucial role in preserving finished product quality and ensuring business continuity. MITA Cooling Technologies’ cooling technologies, such as closed-loop evaporative towers and adiabatic dry coolers, ensure precise and consistent temperatures for delicate food processes without compromising the safety and purity of process fluids.
Cooling systems for metalworking
Metal processing requires reliable, high-efficiency cooling systems to maintain stable temperatures during processes such as casting, rolling, and stamping. MITA Cooling Technologies offers advanced industrial cooling solutions: evaporative towers, dry coolers, adiabatic systems supported by parameter control panels. Reliability, precision, resource optimization: the cooling systems the metal processing industry needs.
Cooling Systems for Paper Mills and Pulp
Le cartiere richiedono un raffreddamento efficiente per gestire le elevate portate di acque spesso sporche, contaminate da residui di cellulosa. MITA Cooling Technologies offre soluzioni di raffreddamento in vetroresina non-corrodibile, compatte o modulari e containerizzabili, ideali per ottimizzare i costi e agevolare il trasporto a lunga distanza. Torri di raffreddamento a circuito aperto e chiuso garantiscono performance costanti, facilità di manutenzione e resistenza all'intasamento.
Cooling Systems for Industrial Wastewater
Multiple industries have a cross-sectoral need to cool wastewater from their production processes: these include textile, paper, and food companies. In this area, it is best to use evaporative towers with anti-clogging exchange packs for dirty industrial water. MITA offers efficient and sustainable cooling solutions, with evaporative towers designed to ensure long life even with dirty water and high flows.
Industrial Cooling Plants: Case Studies
- Industrial Wastewater
Cooling Revamp of a Wastewater Treatment Plant
In 2019, MITA Cooling Technologies sold 4 PME-E open circuit cooling towers to a Swedish paper mill. The "Super Silent" version of the PME-E makes it possible to meet the customer's extraordinary low sound level requirements.
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- Food & Beverage Industry
Cooling Efficiency for a Food Company in Poland
MITA Cooling Technologies scores, together with the agency EETS, a new achievement for the food industry: a poultry products company chose the PAD-V adiabatic cooler for a section of its production processes.
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Cooling Technologies for a High-Quality Food Process
More than a hundred years ago it was an apple orchard: now it is one of the most important food industries in Sweden. This is the company to which MITA Cooling Technologies and CAMPreq have provided solutions-as manufacturer and process cooling consultant, respectively.
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What Process Cooling Solutions are available on the market?
PAD-XL W Adiabatic Cooler
Ideal for those who want to use very little cooling water while eliminating its management, or as an alternative to the classic dry cooler, especially with performance in the hottest times of the year in mind.
PMM Modular Cooling Tower
This is a series of large industrial cooling towers for power generation, steel and aluminium processing, cogeneration and other large production sites. Efficiency, high performance, reduced installation and transport costs are granted.
MITA IoT Platform 4.0
Your cooler is transformed into a connected cooler “industry 4.0”: performance, resourse use, maintenance just a click away.
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