Reducing water consumption of an industrial plant cooling unit using hybrid cooling tower

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 311-319

  Rezaei, Ebrahim ^a   Shafiei, Sirous ^a   Abdollahnezhad, Aydin ^b  

^a SAHAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b Tabriz Refinery R and D   (Iran)

Author keywords

Hybrid cooling tower; Modeling; Simulation; Water loss reduction

Indexed keywords

AIR-COOLED HEAT EXCHANGER; COMPUTER CODES; COOLING UNIT; CORRECTION FACTORS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HYBRID COOLING; HYBRID TOWER; OPERATING CONDITION; SIMULATION DATA; TOWER MODELING; WATER CONSUMPTION; WATER LOSS; WATER SUPPLY AREA; WET AND DRY;

CEMENTS; COOLING; COOLING TOWERS; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WATER SUPPLY;

WATER COOLING TOWERS;

EID: 71549168295     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2009.09.027     Document Type: Article

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