Effictiveness models for cooling towers and cooling coils

Conference · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1989 · ASHRAE Transactions (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers); (USA)

OSTI ID:5770692

Braun, J E ^[1]; Klein, S A; Mitchell, J W ^[2]

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1. Johnson Controls, Inc., Milwaukee, WI (US)
2. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (US)

This paper presents a simple, yet mechanistic method for modeling the performance of cooling towers a cooling coils. Through the introduction of an air saturation specific heat, effectiveness relationships are developed. The advantages of this approach are its simplicity, accuracy, and consistency with the methods for analyzing sensible heat exchangers. The accuracy of the effectiveness models is as good or better than that associated with standard methods presented in the literature and these models have significantly less computational requirements.

• OSTI ID: 5770692
• Report Number(s): CONF-890609-; CODEN: ASHTA
• Journal Information: ASHRAE Transactions (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers); (USA), Vol. 95, Part 2; Conference: 1989 ASHRAE annual meeting, Vancouver (Canada), 25-28 Jun 1989; ISSN 0001-2505
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
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COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
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SIMULATION
TOWERS
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