Leadership

Toby Daley P.E., President and Owner/Founder of The Cooling Tower Experts (Est. 2004) has over 50+ years of Cooling Tower Industry experience. Bringing innovative management, engineering, product development and technical services to major cooling tower manufacturers. 

Toby Daley began his Engineering career with Cooling Tower Companies in 1974. He was the creator of key foundational thermal performance and technical software for the cooling tower industry. He was instrumental in the engineering development and execution of safety related ultimate heat sink cooling towers for nuclear power plants, both domestically and globally. He oversaw development of large cast-in-place and precast concrete cooling towers for power plants. He was integral to the structural development, analysis methodology, and automation of pultruded fiberglass cooling towers. Daley held several titles, including Vice president of Engineering, Vice President of Research and Development, and subsequently President and Chief Operating Officer. Additional specialties include FRP structural design and finite element analysis, tornado missile protected design, cooling tower thermal modeling, thermal rating systems and software, computational fluid dynamics modeling, forensic investigations, and sound modeling. He also designed and built a state of the art dedicated Research and Development Facility which was available to to the Cooling Tower Industry. Daley served on the University of Texas at Arlington Civil Engineering Department Advisory Committee from 1992 to 2004. Toby Daley holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering degree from the University of Texas at Arlington.  

Below is a brief summary of experience:

• BSCE - University of Texas at Arlington – Civil Engineering 1976 Specializing in Structural Analysis and Finite Element Analysis and Fluid Dynamics
• Chi Epsilon - National Civil Engineering Honor Society, Chapter Honor Member
  
• Tau Beta Pi - National Engineering Honor Society
• Registered Professional Engineer – Texas (Structural Specialty)
• Life Member American Society of Civil Engineers
• Charter Member Structural Engineers Association of Texas
• Member National Structural Engineer Associates
• University of Texas at Arlington Civil Engineering Department Advisory Committee
• Past Adjunct Professor – University of Texas at Arlington – Masters and PHD level course in Fiberglass Composite Structural Design and Analysis

• Positions held with major Cooling Tower Companies
  • Project Engineer – Nuclear Ultimate Heat Sink (UHS) Cooling Towers 
  • Engineering Manager – Nuclear Ultimate Heat Sink (UHS) Cooling Towers
  • Director of Engineering – Power, Process, Industrial, HVAC
  • Vice President of Engineering and Research and Development
  • Chief Operating Officer
  • Vice President of Construction
    
  •  Vice President – Chief Technology Officer
  •  President/Chief Operating Officer
    

• Cooling Technology Institute
  • President of CTI
  • Treasurer
  • Board of Directors
  • Chair of the Multi-Agency Committee
  • Chair of the Engineering Standards and Maintenance Technical Committee
  • Chair of the Product and Material Certification Technical Committee
  • Past Presidents Council (Current)
  • Chair of the Performance & Technology Committee
  • Chair of the CTI Toolkit Software Committee (Current)

Additional Areas of Specialty:

     Technical Services, Application Engineering Analysis and Operations

Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis

Thermal Rating Systems and Analysis and Software Development

Product Line Development and Standardization

Nuclear Ultimate Heat Sink Cooling Towers

Design Automation

Earthquake & Wind Load Analysis & Design

Field & Lab Research

Thermal Performance Diagnostic Studies and Modelling

PUBLISHED WORKS

"Optimization of Flow Field Structure in a Cooling Tower Through Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis, T.L. Daley -  ASME 

"Design Methodology and Recommended Maintenance for FRP Composite Structured Cooling Towers", Toby Daley - Cooling Tower Institute 

"Design Methodology and Recommended Maintenance for FRP Composite Structured Cooling Towers", Toby Daley - SPI Western Composites Institute

“A Performance Comparison of Counterflow Reduced Fouling Fills”, Toby Daley – , Cooling Technology Institute

“A Performance Comparison of Counterflow Reduced Fouling Fills”, Toby Daley – Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI) Cooling Tower Conference

 “Architectural Enclosure Influences on the Performance of Field Erected Counterflow Towers”, Toby Daley – Cooling Technology Institute

PATENTS

 "Structural Assembly”, 5,236,625

 "Rigid Cooling Tower”, 5,851446

 "Rigid Cooling Tower and Method of Constructing a Cooling Tower”, 5,902,522

“Hot Water Distribution System and Method for a Cooling Tower”, 8,602,397

INSTRUMENTAL in DEVELOPMENT

“Tornado Protected Cooling Tower”, 4,129,627

“Cooling Tower with Interlocking Tiles”, 4,490,312

 “Lightweight Cooling Tower with Cruciform Columns”, 5,028,357

"Lightweight Cooling Tower with Cruciform Columns”, 5,155,961

Ultimate Heat Sink - Safety Related – Nuclear Power

Engineering Experience

• Nuclear Ultimate Heat Sink Cooling Towers (1975 – Current)
• Complex Thermal Rating, Design and Analysis - USNRC Regulatory Guide 1.27
• Increase UHS Thermal Capacity by Upgrading Existing Towers
• Seismic Response Spectra Structural Analysis
• Tornado Overpressure Design and Analysis - USNRC Regulatory Guide 1.76
• Tornado Missile Protection Analysis
• Technical and Qualification Reports
• Experienced in preparation of specialized  Analysis and Design Reports to Satisfy 10CR50 and 10CFR21 – APP B
• Experienced in “N” Stamp for Engineering of ASME Class 3 Piping Systems and “NA” Stamp for Installation
• Experienced in the Cooling Tower 10CFR50 QA Programs
• Development of the Tornado Protected Cooling Tower 4,129,627
• Stainless Steel Film Fill Development and Application for Tile Fill Replacement to increase thermal capacity
  
• Successful Completion of the Analysis and Qualification S.S. Fill for Use in an Existing UHS