Refinement of the transfer characteristic correlation of wet-cooling tower fills

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 35-41

  Kloppers, J Chris ^a   Kröger, Detlev G ^b  

^a SASOL TECHNOLOGY PTY LTD   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; HEAT TRANSFER; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; SPECIFIC HEAT; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; MASS FLOW RATES; MERKEL NUMBER; POPPE METHODS;

COOLING TOWERS;

EID: 17444374312     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457630590916266     Document Type: Article

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