Third party certification

Scope of the programme

The Eurovent Certification Programme for Cooling Towers applies to product ranges (or product lines) within the category of Open & Closed-Circuit series Cooling Towers.

ECC have a collaborative arrangement with USA based Cooling Technology Institute Est. 1950 (CTI) to use the CTI Thermal Performance Certification STD-201(latest version) for certification compliance.

There are three key requirement steps to achieve and maintain ECC certification in compliance to the CTI STD-201.  These being;

1 - Qualification Procedure,

2 - Repetition Procedure 

3 - Factory Audit*.

*Factory auditing is an additional scope item above that of CTI STD-201.  This will be explained further in Section "Factory Audit".

For more information about the Cooling Technology Institute (CTI), follow the link below to the CTI home page : 

For more information about CTI Cooling Tower Certification, follow the link below to the CTI cooling tower certification program page : 

Certified characteristics

The range of the certified thermal operating conditions shall not extend beyond the certified characteristics as per CTI STD-201, these being:

• Entering wet bulb temperature: 10°C to 32.2°C (50°F to 90°F)
• Cooling range > 2.2°C (4°F)
• Cooling approach > 2.8°C (5°F)
• Process fluid temperature < 51.7°C (125°F)
• Barometric pressure: - 91.4 to 105.0 kPa (27" to 31" Hg)

Certification tests on cooling towers shall be conducted with the measured flow rate of the process fluid at no less than 60% or more than 140% of the midpoint of the published flow rate limits for the cooling tower model.

During the certification tests, the product shall be operating within the manufacturers recommended limits of hot water head/nozzle spray pressure.

Certification tests shall be conducted with a specific product operating within 10% of its rated fan motor output power.

Prior to evaluating the unit performance, the capacity at the test barometric pressure shall be adjusted to the standard barometric pressure using the equation below:

C_{SBP =} C_TBP/(1+K1)(BP_Std-BP_T))

Where:

C_SBP=      Capacity adjusted to Standard Barometric Pressure
C_TBP =     Capacity at Test Barometric Pressure
K₁ =        Constant equal to .0023 for SI and 0.0078 for IP
BP_Std =   Standard Barometric pressure equal to 101.325 kPa for SI and 29.92 in Hg for IP
BP_T =     Test Barometric Pressure in kPa (in Hg)