Abstract: Traditional cooling towers have the disadvantages of large water consumption such as evaporation loss and sewage loss.The plume abatement water-saving cooling tower can reduce the evaporation loss while also reducing the pollution loss,which have the great significance for the research and application of plume abatement cooling towers.We introduce the methods of plume abatement,such as the combination of dry and wet,condensation and droplet capture.The mechanism of typical plume abatement methods and the effects of plume abatement and water saving are reviewed,and the verification and evaluation methods of the combined dry and wet plume abatement are introduced.It is pointed out that the plume abatement evaluation is the basis of the design and operation optimization of the plume abatement tower.At the same time,the characteristics and differences of the zero plume type and the less plume type evaluation standards of the plume abatement acceptance test procedure are compared,and it is pointed out that new quantitative evaluation indicators needs to be proposed on the basis of the existing tower plume index,which can guide the design and operation optimization of less plume type cooling towers.