60+ YEARS AS AN INDUSTRY LEADER IN THE DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION,
REPAIR AND UPGRADE OF COOLING TOWERS.
Experience in all phases of cooling tower technologies over the past sixty years has required a tradition of flexibility and commitment to the needs of our customers. Since our founding in 1951, we have continued in this tradition, challenging existing techniques and technology to meet the specific and more demanding requirements for higher efficiency and higher performance cooling towers. STAR has earned a reputation as a leader in the industry.
Responding to environmental factors and an evolving stream of regulatory requirements, STAR has undergone many changes in its sixty plus year history. STAR COOLING TOWERS was founded as specialists in prefabricated designed towers for commercial and industrial services. As we continued to meet the challenges of our customers, for higher efficiency and greater volume, we’ve developed our design process to meet the individual requirements of our customer’s needs.
In the 1960’s, STAR entered the growing business of industrial cooling tower service and repair, while we also continued design and construction of new BIGGER industrial cooling towers . Our knowledge and experience in repair, combined with our development in new industrial cooling tower design, has given us insight to the shortcomings and strengths of almost
any size project. Our methods of specific engineering and prefabrication, in tandem with our extensive field experience, have evolved with technology through the seventies and into the present.
As a leader in the industry, we have become competitive in all types of cooling tower projects of any size and design. We are constantly developing newer methods to serve the growing needs in the industry, and our efforts have led us to become a highly competitive, fullservice engineering, design, and repair contractor. Our emphasis on performance and low maintenance continues to give STAR the edge in every project design. Our approach to project delivery allows us to begin any size commercial or industrial project before most of our competitors.
STAR will continue in the tradition of cooling tower service into the next decade, bringing innovative solutions to our clients with new technologies and techniques for increased cooling capacity and faster project delivery.
THE FULL SERVICE COOLING TOWER SPECIALISTS
FOUNDED ON EXPERTISE IN ENGINEERING, DESIGN, MANUFACTURING, AND REPAIR
INNOVATION
The integration of components in every new tower design we produce reflects our increasing knowledge of performance and efficiency. Our matching and selection process for components in every tower design is based on the unique characteristics of each project. Our flexibility as an independent company allows us to develop a tower design from a broad range of components based on the needs of the project or the preferences of the customer. Optimum individual requirements are defined by engineering design and compo nents are selected for performance and dura bility. With this flexibility of choice, we provide alternative solutions to the challenges of our customers never forcing one design to serve the needs of every application. Our engineering methodologies and new techniques for evaluation of performance data on all types of cooling tower components assure the best combination to meet your application.
We offer a complete range of services to meet the needs of every project. Mainte nance services, repair, reconstruction, add cell applications, and performance testing or inspections are services we have provided for almost forty years. STAR engineers bring the knowledge and experience of the field to your project through a highly qualified and techni cally oriented sales and management team. Technical project proposals for new tower con struction may be delivered in 72 hours upon re quest. Our advanced project planning tech niques will keep you aware of progress in every stage of your project and allow tor fast and accurate construction and startup, well within your project schedule.
STAR engineers have gained a strong reputation as repair and reconstruction specialists with decades of ex perience rehabilitating virtually all types and designs of cooling towers . Advanced computer modeling and analysis and sound engineering practice will give you the assurance of perfect performance among all compo nents in the operation of your cooling tower.
Regular expert inspections and performance testing is your best insurance against tower failure. Major unplanned repairs can be avoided with regular inspec tions of your tower’s operation and structural condition. STAR field engineers will perform a thorough study of your tower at your request including: structural integrity, mechanical operation, distribution systems, and evaluate the condition of fill and drift eliminators. In addition, STAR’s field engineers may conduct a series of tests to determine the existing levels of thermal, mechanical and hydraulic performance, along with airflow, static pres sure, sound and drift measurements, giving you a profile of the current performance of your tower. No matter what the age of your tower, our comprehensive inspection and performance testing can identify inefficiencies that may sap the strength out of the original capabilities of its design. Our engineers will analyze this information with advanced computer modeling to evaluate the performance features of your tower in its present condition and compare this data with models of its original design to determine if improvements are necessary. Additionally, we will cross evaluate components that would enhance and strengthen your tower’s system to yield increased performance and energy efficiency whenever possible. A complete written report with recommendations of findings, damage, approximate cost of repair or retrofit, and appropriate schedule is provided as a part of our expert inspection and performance evaluation. Our report will give you a clear understanding of the present condition of your tower and serve as a tool for decision making, providing you with the alternatives for retrofitting or repair and the projected cost benefits of each scenario.
STAR’s skilled field crews will apply preservative treatments, perform preventative maintenance, and turnkey reconstruction, upgrades or retrofitting on a regular or accelerated schedule. STAR can provide these services for almost any type of tower design: counterflow, crossflow, forced draft, induced draft, and natural draft.
FULL SERVICE
STAR COOLING TOWERS may provide a complete range of services providing technical assistance to evaluate performance, accelerated schedules for repair, reconstruction, or preparing an addition to expand your system.
Our carefully selected and supervised field crews are all experienced cooling tower craftsmen. If repairs are necessary, we can assure you that STAR is prepared and qualified to work with almost all manufacturer cooling towers .
INSPECTIONS AND PERFORMANCE TESTING
STAR engineers can provide inspections and performance testing on virtually all types and designs of cooling towers: counterflow, crossflow, forced draft, induced draft, and natural draft. Our engineers are prepared to meet your needs for a professional evaluation and assist you in any emergency.
REPAIR
RETROFITS
If repairs are necessary, in an emergency or within a prearranged schedule to meet your operational needs, STAR will be standing by. Our carefully selected and supervised field crews are all experienced cooling tower crafts men. We can assure you that STAR is pre pared and qualified to work with almost all manufacturer cooling towers . Additionally, we will cross evaluate compo nents that would enhance and strengthen your tower’s system to yield increased performance and energy efficiency whenever possible. Advanced computer modeling and analy sis and sound engineering practice will give you the professional assurance of perfect performance among all components in the operation of your cooling tower.
RECONSTRUCTION
Computerized logistics, automated design, a sound engineering, and field experience will help you to minimize operational downtime when you must undertake a reconstruction or replacement project of any size. Our field crafts men and technicians are reconstruction ex perts.
OPERATIONAL SAFETY ENGINEERING
Our experience and record of safety over the last four decades extends to every project we design and build, or contract for repair or main tenance. Operational hazards are avoided in our designs for new tower construction and STAR’s engineers always consider features to safeguard operations in all retrofitting and re construction projects. Many of our own requirements and procedures exceed current OSHA standards.
NEW TOWER DESIGNS AND ADD CELL APPLICATIONS
Our practical experience and sound engineer ing approach, bring fresh innovations to the performance features of each new tower de sign. STAR engineers employ the most advanced automation techniques to design and evaluate every detail of your new tower re quirements, allowing us to begin construction before most of our competitors hit the drawing board. Whether you are undertaking a totally new project or adding to your existing capabili ties, STAR can deliver, on your request for a proposal, in 72 hours.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
STAR engineers are constantly searching for methods and techniques to innovate greater performance and efficiency in new tower de sign and r etrofitting. Improved service life, greater thermal performance, lower power con sumption , and lower maintenance are our goals for every project we undertake.
MANUFACTURING
At STAR we manufacture the critical compo nents th at directly meet structural and airflow specifications unique to every project. STAR craftsmen custom fabricate wood and steel components of the structural system and manufacture fiberglass fan stacks to meet the loading conditions our engineers specify for durability. Steel unitized construction of me chanic al equipment supports is also custom fabricated as an integral structural component and customized for the loading conditions of your tower. This manufacturing focus gives STAR the flexibility to perform within the project schedules of our customers and assures our delivery with no sacrifice in the projected service life of your tower. Our custom fabrica tion fac ilities stand ready to provide structural components for repairs and reconstruction projects on a projected schedule or in emergencies. Our engineering teams concentrate on the structural integrity and durability fea tures c haracteristic of all STAR cooling towers . Our flexibility in providing mechanical equip ment co mponents from almost any source while we concentrate on the custom features of every STAR cooling tower design helps to give us the lead in every project we undertake.