Central Energy Plant Cooling Tower

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Central Energy PlantCooling Tower

• Team Members
• Heath Nance
• Roy Quinn
• September 23, 1998

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Outline

• Background
• Schematic Drawing
• Data Collection
• Results
• Conclusions
• Question

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Schematic Drawing
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Data Collection
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Data Collection

• humidity (wet dry bulb temp)
• ambient temperature
• exiting air velocity

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Equipment

• humidity- sling psychrometer
• ambient temp- anemometer
• air flows- turbine anemometer
• water temperature- thermometer
• psychrometric chart

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Psychrometer Readings
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Exit Airflow Data
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Volumetric Airflow
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lbs. of water/lbs. of dry air
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Enthalpy
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Formulas

• q m ( hout - hin )
• mass flow rate flow rate of air / volume per
  mass of dry air
• volumetric flow rate n ( p r2 / 4 )

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Calculations

• Total Volumetric Airflow
  2,711,065 cubic ft/min
• Avg Mass Flow Rate
  9,420,625 lbs. DA/min
• Heat Rejected to Atmoshpere
  48,346 btu/day

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Conclusions

• Explained cooling tower
• Schematic illustration
• Discussed data collected
• Results

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Questions