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Performance Comparison for NDWCT Using Trickle Fill at Different Weather Conditions

	International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT)
	© 2015 by IJETT Journal
	Volume-19 Number-3
	Year of Publication : 2015
	Authors : Qasim Saleh Mahdi , Muwafaq Rahi Al- Hachami
	DOI :  10.14445/22315381/IJETT-V19P223

Citation 

Qasim Saleh Mahdi , Muwafaq Rahi Al- Hachami "Performance Comparison for NDWCT Using Trickle Fill at Different Weather Conditions", International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT), V19(3), 134-139 Jan 2015. ISSN:2231-5381. www.ijettjournal.org. published by seventh sense research group

Abstract

A prototype design has been built to simulate natural draft wet cooling tower based on geometrical, dynamic and thermodynamic similarity. Experimental tests were done in summer (hot and dry) and at winter (cold and wet) weather according to Iraqi weather using (10) cm trickle fill. The mass flow rate of water has changed from (0.8 to 2.4) gpm, and cross wind fixed at zero (m/s). The obtained results clarify that tower range, cooling capacity, and air temperature change, are higher at winter than them at summer where relative humidity change, enthalpy change, and show higher values at summer than them at winter. It is found that water consumption in winter is more than it in summer in spite of the more humidity in outside weather at winter.

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Keywords
Cooling Tower, Trickle Fill, Hot Weather, Natural Draft, Iraqi Weather.