WATER TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION IN A VERTICAL CROSS-SECTION OF A WET COUNTERFLOW COOLING TOWER

Abstract

The conventional method of cooling tower calculation does not take into account heat exchange under the fill. The basic reasons for this are: substantially less amount of heat is exchanged under the fill than in the fill and the definition of physical model of heat transfer is rather complicated. Nevertheless, in the case of cooling tower of greater dimension, this method of calculation may give uncorrect results. There are very few authors who treat this problem by experiments. The results obtained in this work show that the heat exchange under the fill is significiant.