Closed-cycle recirculating system

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-005288",
  "term": "Closed-cycle recirculating system",
  "field": "Environment",
  "term_source": "Closed-Cycle Recirculating System",
  "definition": "System designed, using minimized makeup and blowdown flows, to withdraw water from a natural or other water source to support contact and/or noncontact cooling uses within a facility. The water is usually sent to a cooling canal or channel, lake, pond, or tower to allow waste heat to be dissipated to the atmosphere and then is returned to the system. (Some facilities divert the waste heat to other process operations.) New source water (make-up water) is added to the system to replenish losses that have occurred due to blowdown, drift, and evaporation.",
  "subject": "Environmental technologies",
  "references": [
    "40 CFR 125.83 (CFR 2013)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/closed-cycle-recirculating-system/"
}