| Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 193, 2020
International Conference on Modern Trends in Manufacturing Technologies and Equipment (ICMTMTE 2020)
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| Article Number | 01044 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Agricultural Science | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202019301044 | |
| Published online | 08 October 2020 | |
Cooling efficiency of filler unit in non-chemical cooling tower with advanced contact surface
1
Kazan National Research Technological University, 420015, Karl Marx street 68, Kazan, Russia
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Kazan State Power Engineering University, 420066, Krasnoselskaya street 51, Kazan, Russia
* Corresponding author: ilnyr_91@mail.ru
The paper deals with a pressing problem on the effective cooling of circulating water at industrial plants using the evaporative cooling towers. A new design of the cooling tower is developed that prevents the biological fouling of the equipment surfaces without the use of chemicals. The design of the filler unit with the inclined-corrugated plates and the metal mesh provides the advanced gas-liquid contact surface. An evaluation of the cooling efficiency of the inclined corrugated contact elements is performed by means of the volumetric coefficient values of heat transfer in the gas phase. From experimental data, it has been found that with increasing the wetting density, the volumetric heat transfer coefficients also increase at the same mean-flow air velocity. A comparative analysis of Merkel numbers for the developed filler unit with the existing analogs as the characteristic of cooling capacity indicated its superiority.
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