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 …

A review on the performance evaluation of natural draft dry cooling towers and possible improvements via inlet air spray cooling

Y Sun, Z Guan, K Hooman - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Concentrating solar power (CSP) plants make use of the renewable and inexhaustible solar
energy to produce electricity. Limited by the scarce water resources, CSP plants built in arid …

Theoretical analysis on heat and mass transfer in a direct evaporative cooler

JM Wu, X Huang, H Zhang - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2009 - Elsevier
The heat and mass transfer between air and water film in the direct evaporative cooler is
theoretically analyzed in present paper. A simplified cooling efficiency correlation is …

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 …

Evaporative cooling of water in a mechanical draft cooling tower

SP Fisenko, AA Brin, AI Petruchik - International Journal of heat and mass …, 2004 - Elsevier
A new mathematical model of a mechanical draft cooling tower performance has been
developed. The model represents a boundary-value problem for a system of ordinary …

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 …

A simplified model for analysis of heat and mass transfer in a direct evaporative cooler

A Fouda, Z Melikyan - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2011 - Elsevier
In this paper heat and mass transfer, process in direct evaporative cooler is discussed. A
simplified mathematical model is developed to describe the heat and mass transfer between …

Novel method for improving the cooling performance of natural draft wet cooling towers

X Chen, F Sun, Y Chen, M Gao - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
A novel method for improving the cooling performance of natural draft wet cooling towers
(NDWCTs) by installing air ducts in the rain zone was proposed for the first time. To study the …

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 …

Modeling and optimization of a chiller plant

X Wei, G Xu, A Kusiak - Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
A data-driven approach is utilized to model a chiller plant that has four chillers, four cooling
towers, and two chilled water storage tanks. The chillers have varying energy efficiency …