cooling plant

Noun

cooling plant (plural cooling plants)

1. A facility for the purpose of cooling something.
   • The cooling plant consists of two barges completely equipped with electrically operated centrifugal pumping units, priming pumping units, control boards, piping, and deck houses.1937, United States. Bureau of Reclamation, Completion of Grand Coulee Dam Left Powerhouse and, page 77
   • 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.1981, Arthur Kill Fossil Fueled Power Plant Permit, page 109
2. A facility for producing a medium (such as ice) that is used for cooling.
   • 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.1936, Alonzo Plumsted Kratz, Harold Eaton Babbitt, Paul Howard Black, The Biologic Digestion of Garbage with Sewage Sludge, page 30
   • 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.2006, Non-domestic Heating, Cooling and Ventilation Compliance Guide