Advanced material design and engineering for water‐based evaporative cooling

R Li, W Wang, Y Shi, C Wang, P Wang - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Water‐based evaporative cooling is emerging as a promising technology to provide
sustainable and low‐cost cold to alleviate the rising global cooling demand. Given the …

[HTML][HTML] The environmental footprint of data centers in the United States

MAB Siddik, A Shehabi, L Marston - Environmental Research …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Much of the world's data are stored, managed, and distributed by data centers. Data centers
require a tremendous amount of energy to operate, accounting for around 1.8% of electricity …

Experimental investigation of fill pack impact on thermal-hydraulic performance of evaporative cooling tower

AV Dmitriev, IN Madyshev, VV Kharkov… - Thermal Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The present work deals with an experimental study of the performance of an evaporative
cooling tower (ECT) with a developed fill pack. The fill pack consists of inclined-corrugated …

CFD simulation of wet cooling towers

R Al-Waked, M Behnia - Applied thermal engineering, 2006 - Elsevier
Heat and mass transfer inside a natural draft wet cooling tower (NDWCT) have been
investigated numerically under different operating and crosswind conditions. The three …

[PDF][PDF] A review study on cooling towers; types, performance and application

F Afshari, H Dehghanpour - ALKÜ Fen Bilimleri Dergisi, 2019 - dergipark.org.tr
Temperature control is a significant requirement in the most industrial process. In this regard,
cooling towers are key parts of many power plant installations. Operation of the cooling …

Spraying mode effect on droplet formation and ion chemistry in electrosprays

P Nemes, I Marginean, A Vertes - Analytical chemistry, 2007 - ACS Publications
Depending on the spraying conditions and fluid properties, a variety of electrospray regimes
exists. Here we explore the changes in ion production that accompany the transitions among …

Performance prediction of a cooling tower using artificial neural network

M Hosoz, HM Ertunç, H Bulgurcu - Energy Conversion and Management, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper describes an application of artificial neural networks (ANNs) to predict the
performance of a cooling tower under a broad range of operating conditions. In order to …

Experimental study on improving operating conditions of wet cooling towers using various rib numbers of packing

P Shahali, M Rahmati, SR Alavi, A Sedaghat - International journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
There are different mass and heat transfer mechanisms between water and air flows inside
wet cooling towers (WCTs) so that it is a very difficult task to manage or optimize their …

Spray cooling system design and optimization for cooling performance enhancement of natural draft dry cooling tower in concentrated solar power plants

Y Sun, Z Guan, H Gurgenci, J Wang, P Dong… - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
In concentrated solar power (CSP) plants built in dry and arid areas, natural draft dry cooling
tower (NDDCT) are commonly employed to dissipate waste heat into the atmosphere. The …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical analysis of a counter-flow wet cooling tower and its plume

A Zargar, A Kodkani, A Peris, E Clare, J Cook… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
A one-dimensional model to study the heat and mass transfer inside and immediately above
a wet counter-flow cooling tower is described. The wet cooling tower thermodynamic model …