Calculations on performance characteristics of counterflow Reversibly Used Cooling Towers

International Journal of Refrigeration

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 424-433

  Zhang, Quan ^a   Wu, Jiasheng ^a   Zhang, Guoqiang ^a   Zhou, Jin ^a   Guo, Yonghui ^a   Shen, Wei ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cooling tower; Counterflow; Heat transfer; Heating; Mass transfer; Numerical analysis; Reversible

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; COUNTERFLOW; COUPLED HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; DEVELOPED MODEL; DRIVING FORCES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; OPERATING CONDITION; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; REVERSIBLE; THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS; THERMAL BEHAVIORS; WATER MASS FLOW; WATER TEMPERATURES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; COOLING TOWERS; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODELS; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

MASS TRANSFER;

EID: 84856511065     PISSN: 01407007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2011.10.016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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