On thermal performance of seawater cooling towers

Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Sharqawy, Mostafa H ^a   Lienhard V, John H ^a   Zubair, Syed M ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOW DOWN; CORRECTION FACTORS; COUNTERFLOW; COUPLED HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; DETAILED MODELS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; OPERATIONAL PROBLEMS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SALT DEPOSITION; SEA WATER SALINITY; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; THERMO-PHYSICAL PROPERTY; WET COOLING TOWER;

COOLING; COOLING TOWERS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MASS TRANSFER; MIXED CONVECTION; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SURFACE TENSION; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; WAVE POWER;

SEAWATER EFFECTS;

EID: 78649586726     PISSN: 07424795     EISSN: 15288919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4002159     Document Type: Article

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