Sustaining cooling tower performance through air side inlet condition control

A cooling system, comprising:

• an air intake vent provided on a sidewall of a cooling tower and through which external air enters an interior of the cooling tower, the air intake vent including:
• a plurality of vertical supports;
• and
• a plurality of louvers supported on the plurality of vertical supports and vertically offset from each other, each pair of vertically offset louvers forming a corresponding row;
• and
• a fluid circuit extending within at least one row and including one or more cooling assemblies attached to at least one of the vertically offset louvers, each cooling assembly including a tube through which a coolant is circulated and one or more fins extending from a surface of the tube,
• wherein a temperature and a humidity of the external air is reduced as the external air contacts the one or more cooling assemblies while drawn into the interior through the air intake vent.

A method of enhancing cooling of a cooling tower, comprising:

• drawing external air into an interior of the cooling tower via an air intake vent provided on a sidewall of the cooling tower, the air intake vent including:
• a plurality of louvers vertically offset from each other to direct the external air into the interior;
• a first cooling assembly forming part of a first fluid circuit extending between a first set of vertically offset louvers of the plurality of louvers;
• and
• a second cooling assembly forming part of a second fluid circuit extending between a second set of vertically offset louvers of the plurality of louvers, each cooling assembly including a tube and one or more fins extending from a surface of the tube;
• circulating a first coolant through the first fluid circuit;
• circulating a second coolant through the second fluid circuit;
• and
• reducing a temperature and a humidity of the external air as the external air contacts the first or second cooling assemblies while drawn into the interior through the air intake vent.