I came across an interesting equipment described in Minton's excellent book on Evaporators: An evaporative condensor. It seems like a cross between a Shell and Tube and an air cooled HEX.
Is this equipment used in practice? Isn't it sort of like trying to combine a mini cooling tower with your shell and tube? What's the advantage to doing this rather than a conventional CW circuit and a stand alone, centralized, large Cooling Tower.