Greg Rankin

Fed up with spending substantial resources on the continuous repair of an aging cooling tower, a large North Carolina-based community college recently opted to replace its failing galvanized-metal unit with an engineered plastic model.

SPAR is comprised of woven, knit, or non-woven structures where nonconductive yarns combine with conductive yarns that serve as electrodes.  When a voltage is applied to these conducting yarns, a non-thermal plasma (NTP) is produced.