Numerical simulation of water spray for pre-cooling of inlet air in natural draft dry cooling towers

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 416-424

  Alkhedhair, Abdullah ^a   Gurgenci, Hal ^a   Jahn, Ingo ^a   Guan, Zhiqiang ^a   He, Suoying ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complete evaporation; Natural draft; Numerical modeling; Pre cooling; Spray cooling

Indexed keywords

3-D NUMERICAL MODELING; DROPLET EVAPORATION; NATURAL DRAFT; NATURAL DRAFT DRY COOLING TOWERS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; PRE-COOLING; SPRAY CHARACTERISTICS; SPRAY COOLING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; COOLING TOWERS; EVAPORATION; NUMERICAL MODELS; AIR; DROPS;

AIR; SPRAY NOZZLES;

EID: 84883764535     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2013.08.012     Document Type: Article

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