The effects of water droplet diameter distribution in the rain zone on the cooling capacity and water-splashing noise for natural draft wet cooling towers

Jiang, Lei; Han, Qiang; Wang, Nini; Gao, Ming; He, Suoying; Guan, Hongjun; Tan, Xiaojie

doi:10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2021.106875

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“…In [27,28], the hydrodynamic model was used for analysis of thermal performance of a natural draft wet-cooling tower improved by split flow plates to produce a dry-wet hybrid zone. In [29], a numerical simulation was conducted to study the influence of diameter of water droplets in the rain zone on the cooling efficiency of a natural draft wet-cooling tower.…”

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Numerical Simulation on Temperature and Moisture Fields Around Cooling Towers Used in Mine Ventilation System

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For heat rejection, small air-cooling towers are widely used in mine ventilation systems. However, the thermal efficiency of the cooling towers can be significantly affected by their geometrical arrangement and crosswind conditions. In certain ambient conditions, heated air coming from an exit of one tower can flow to intakes of other towers, which leads to a reduction in the thermal efficiency of the entire ventilation system. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of crosswind speed and tower spacing on the temperature and moisture content of intakes of cooling towers. For this purpose, a three-dimensional CFD model of the non-isothermal turbulent flow of moist air around cooling towers is proposed. The model is based on the Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations with a standard turbulence model which are supplemented by heat transfer and moisture transport equations. The investigation of the effects of the crosswind speed and the tower spacing was carried out for two cooling towers by multiparametric numerical simulation using the CFD model. It was shown that the upstream tower protects the downstream one from the effect of the crosswind. The increase in the crosswind speed causes a rise in temperature and moisture content at the intakes of the downstream tower. The increase in the tower spacing, in general, contributes to a decrease in air temperature at the intakes of the downstream tower. However, at low crosswind speed, the heat transfer at the intakes can rise with the tower spacing due to a reduction in the protection possibilities of the upstream tower. Results of the numerical simulation of airflow around three cooling towers indicated that the increase in the number of cooling towers contributes to a rise in temperature and moisture content at the intakes.

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