Improving the efficiency of natural draft cooling towers

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 47, Issue 9-10, 2006, Pages 1086-1100

  Smrekar, J ^a   Oman, J ^a   Sirok B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Cooling tower; Cooling tower efficiency; Entropy generation; Exergy destruction; Heat transfer

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ENTROPY; EXERGY; HEAT TRANSFER; REMOTE CONTROL; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

COOLING TOWER EFFICIENCY; ENTROPY GENERATION; EXERGY GENERATION;

COOLING TOWERS;

EID: 32344432968     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2005.07.012     Document Type: Article

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