Cooling Towers and Chilled Water Systems

Dr. Pontes’ career started as a chemical engineer at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP), when he started working for the research and development department of Ultragaz. In 2000, he returned to USP to start his Master’s degree in chemical engineering, which he concluded in 2002. He then went to work as a project engineer working for Exen while simultaneously started his Doctor’s degree. From 2010 to 2014, Dr. Pontes went to work for Pöyry also as a project engineer. In 2014, Dr. Pontes worked for American Process, where he left in 2016 to return to his academic career at Universidade Mackenzie. Later in that same year, Dr. Pontes moved to Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), lecturing courses on Process Simulation and Chemical Industry Projects. In 2018, he received a grant from FAPESP for his research project on the Optimal Synthesis of Cooling Water Systems.

1. Introduction 2. Cooling water systems 3. Chilled water systems 4. Design of cooling and chilled water systems 5. Operational and control strategies 6. Economic analysis