Estudio de las condiciones actuales de la torre enfriadora te-4401 de la refinería de Ecopetrol en Barrancabermeja y recomendaciones para optimizar su eficiencia
La energía es un recurso valioso que no puede ser derrochado. Las torres de enfriamiento son dispositivos desarrollados para disipar grandes cantidades de energía a un costo razonable. La torre enfriadora TE-4401 del departamento de Craqueo Catalitico II de la refinería de Barrancabermeja actualment...
- Autores:
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Florez Reyes, Aura Maria
Vargas Vargas, Sara Juliana
- Tipo de recurso:
- http://purl.org/coar/version/c_b1a7d7d4d402bcce
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2016
- Institución:
- Universidad Industrial de Santander
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio UIS
- Idioma:
- spa
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:noesis.uis.edu.co:20.500.14071/34385
- Palabra clave:
- Torre Enfriadora
Teoría De Merkel
Método De Tchebycheff
Eficiencia
Curva Característica.
Energy is a valuable resource that can not be wasted. Cooling towers are equipments developed to dissipate large amounts of energy at a reasonable cost. Cooling tower at the Catalytic Cracking II of Barrancabermeja’s refinery actually evidences high consumption of energy by the continuous operation of all of its fans
therefore
it was decided to perform a thermodynamic diagnosis and present recommendations to optimize its overall efficiency and
thus
contributing to an energy saving in the process. The liquid/gas relation (L/G)
the characteristic curve of the tower TE-4401 and their respective cells were obtained. Merkel’s number (KaV/L) was also obtained using Tchebycheff’s numeric method
and the current thermic conditions of the tower were analyzed. It was found that the tower dissipates all the energy it receives
being influenced by the KaV/L ratio and physical conditions
however
to find an approximation of what would be its optimum performance
the ratio L/G provides flows that must give the best efficiency. Prolonging the proper functioning of the tower depends on a continuous and preventive maintenance of this.
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- Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)