Numerical model of evaporative cooling processes in a new type of cooling tower.
Author(s) : KAISER A. S., LUCAS M., VIEDMA A., et al.
Type of article: Article
Summary
A numerical model for studying the evaporative cooling processes that take place in a new type of cooling tower has been developed. In contrast to conventional cooling towers, this new device called Hydrosolar Roof presents lower droplet fall and uses renewable energy instead of fans to generate the air mass flow within the tower. The numerical model developed to analyse its performance is based on computational flow dynamics for the two-phase flow of humid air and water droplets. The Eulerian approach is used for the gas flow phase and the Lagrangian approach for the water droplet flow phase, with two-way coupling between both phases. Experimental results from a full-scale prototype in real conditions have been used for validation. The main results of this study show the strong influence of the average water drop size on efficiency of the system and reveal the effect of other variables like wet bulb temperature, water mass flow to air mass flow ratio and temperature gap between water inlet temperature and wet bulb temperature. Non-dimensional numerical correlation of efficiency as a function of these significant parameters has been calculated.
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- Original title: Numerical model of evaporative cooling processes in a new type of cooling tower.
- Record ID : 2005-1813
- Languages: English
- Source: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer - vol. 48 - n. 5
- Publication date: 2005/02
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