Methodology for evaluation of cooling tower performance - Part 1: Description of the methodology

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3257-3264

  Smrekar, J ^a   Kustrin I ^b   Oman, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Cooling tower; Cooling tower performance; Methodology; Poppe model; Power plant; Real data

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; COOLING TOWER PERFORMANCE; COOLING WATER TEMPERATURE; EMPIRICAL MODEL; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; METHODOLOGY; NATURAL DRAFT COOLING TOWERS; NEW APPLICATIONS; POPPE MODEL; POWER INCREASE; POWER OUT PUT; REAL DATA; SMALL AREA;

COOLING TOWERS; POWER PLANTS; TOWERS; WATER COOLING TOWERS;

COOLING;

EID: 79960466971     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2011.05.005     Document Type: Article

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