Fouling mitigation in a heat exchanger: High cycles of concentration for a cooling-tower application

Experimental Heat Transfer

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 113-128

  Cho, Young I ^a   Kim, Won Tae ^b   Cho, Daniel ^b  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b PWT Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooling tower water; Fouling mitigation; High cycle of concentration; Physical water treatment

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING SYSTEMS; FOULING; HEAT TRANSFER; IONS;

CYCLE OF CONCENTRATION (COC); PHYSICAL WATER TREATMENT (PWT); SIMULATED COOLING;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 33645720089     PISSN: 08916152     EISSN: 15210480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08916150500479372     Document Type: Article

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