Parametric Analysis of a Mechanical Draft Cooling Tower using Two Mathematical Models
In the present work, a Matlab® computer code for cooling tower simulation was developed to perform a parametric analysis that determines the effect of the column cross-sectional area on multiple operating variables such as air humidity, air and water outlet temperature, among others. The computer co...
- Autores:
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Obregon-Quiñones, Luis Guillermo
- Tipo de recurso:
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2021
- Institución:
- Universidad del Atlántico
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio Uniatlantico
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.uniatlantico.edu.co:20.500.12834/824
- Acceso en línea:
- https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12834/824
- Palabra clave:
- Cooling tower, Cross-sectional area, Energy, Mass Transfer Coefficient, Mathematical model
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
| Summary: | In the present work, a Matlab® computer code for cooling tower simulation was developed to perform a parametric analysis that determines the effect of the column cross-sectional area on multiple operating variables such as air humidity, air and water outlet temperature, among others. The computer code uses the Merkel's model and the CDAWC (Continuous Differential Air-Water Contactor) model for later comparison. It was observed a decrease in the outlet water temperature by approximately 14% when the tower's cross-sectional area increased from 1 to 2 m2. It increases the air outlet temperature by about 17% due to increased air-water contact. A negative convective heat transfer in the air was obtained in the cooling tower´s bottom due to the large amount of energy required for the heat transfer by vaporization, which was much larger than the convective heat. The evaporative heat transfer is over 80% of the total heat transferred. |
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