Integrated analysis of cooling water systems: Modeling and experimental validation

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 14-15, 2009, Pages 3124-3131

  Cortinovis, Giorgia F ^a   Ribeiro, Marcelo T ^a   Paiva, José L ^a   Song, Tah W ^a   Pinto, José M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooling tower; Cooling water system; Heat and mass transfer; Mathematical modeling; Process analysis

Indexed keywords

COOLING MEDIUM; COOLING WATER SYSTEM; COOLING WATER SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; HEAT EXCHANGER NETWORK; INTEGRATED ANALYSIS; INTEGRATED MODELS; LIQUID AND GAS FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PROCESS ANALYSIS; REAL-WORLD; SYSTEMIC ANALYSIS; THERMAL INTERACTION; THERMAL PERFORMANCE;

COOLING; COOLING SYSTEMS; COOLING TOWERS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; MASS TRANSFER; PILOT PLANTS; TERNARY SYSTEMS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER COOLING TOWERS; WATER PIPING SYSTEMS; WATERWORKS;

COOLING WATER;

EID: 67650261815     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2009.04.008     Document Type: Article

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