Heat and Mass Transfer in an Indirect Contact Cooling Tower: CFD Simulation and Experiment

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2008

Authors

Jorge Facão (Author) FEUP; Armando C. Oliveira (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Vol. 54 No. 10

Pages: 933-944

ISSN: 1040-7782

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-004-49Q

DOI: 10.1080/10407780802359104

Abstract (EN): The present work is focused on the computational analysis of heat and mass transfer in an indirect contact cooling tower. The main objectives of the study are to contribute to the understanding of heat and mass transfer mechanisms involved in the problem and to check the possibility of making use of a commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code for simulating mass and heat transfer phenomena occurring in indirect cooling towers. The CFD model uses as boundary conditions the temperatures of the tubes obtained by a correlation model developed by Mizushina. The available mass transfer correlations for indirect cooling towers are presented and compared with a correlation obtained from CFD simulations. The assumption of analogy between heat and mass transfer is also discussed.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific