Preliminary Design of a Mechanical-Draft Counterflow Cooling Tower

Abstract

The need for a method whereby the preliminary design of a cooling tower can more easily be specified has existed for many years. The numerical techniques commonly used to solve the Merkel cooling tower equation are not adaptable to a direct general solution. This report presents a direct solution to the Merkel equation which, when combined with certain detailed experimental data by others, yields a relatively quick and straightforward method of establishing the preliminary design of a mechanical-draft counterflow cooling tower. Special attention is devoted to cooling tower application relative to high altitude engine test facilities.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0731193

Entities

People

  • R. L. Clouse

Organizations

  • Arnold Engineering Development Complex

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Temperature
  • Altitude
  • Coefficients
  • Cold Water
  • Cooling
  • Cooling Towers
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Experimental Data
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Transfer
  • High Altitude
  • Latent Heat
  • Test Facilities
  • Water Flow
  • Wet Bulb Temperature

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Systems Analysis and Design