| Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 170, 2020
6th International Conference on Energy and City of the Future (EVF’2019)
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| Article Number | 01009 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Energy and Management | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202017001009 | |
| Published online | 28 May 2020 | |
Experimental Study on Effect of Water Spray Characteristics on Performance of Cooling Tower
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sinhgad College of Engineering, Pune 411041, Maharashtra, India
* Corresponding author: dhurandharakshay@yahoo.com
Cooling tower is an indispensable part, used as a direct contact type heat exchanger mainly for evaporative cooling. Cooling tower generally dissipates, remove heat from thermal power plants. In an induced draft cooling tower of counter flow, used for a mini-steam power plant, hot water enters at the top, while the air is introduced at the bottom and exits at the top, air is allowed to come in contact with falling water droplets, causing evaporative cooling. A possibility of desired change with different spray angle, patterns, is tried and analysed. On findings, best suited spray nozzle angle resulted is 90°, and amongst three spray patterns, full cone, hollow cone and spiral type nozzle; full cone nozzle of 90° spray angle helps achieving efficiency up to 82%. The range increases successively from 9.8°C to 15.5°C for FC nozzle, in approach to WBT; the desirable fall of 3.56°C is attained with effectiveness of 81.63%.
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