The majority of industrial
processes are accompanied by the production of heat. In order to get rid of this
bothering heat, water is usually used as an absorbing fluid. This heat must be taken
from water if it is intended to be used again in the process. Cooling towers are
used in industry to make this aim feasible. In such a tower, the water loses its
heat in exposure with air and becomes cool. The process of heat transfer in the
cooling towers includes hidden evaporation heat (which causes the evaporation of
a part of water) and perceivable heat (due to the difference in water temperature
in air).
The amount of heat that
water may lose in a cooling tower depends on the temperature and the air humidity.
The lowest temperature in which water could cool down is the temperature of air
humidity bubble. As long as it is usual in industry to use such cooling towers to
reduce the water temperature, it is quite important to study the way they function.
The most referred theory
in the field of thermal transfer in cooling towers is the Merbel Theory, according
to which the enthalpy difference is considered as the moving force in the tower.
This software provides the possibility of studying the function of cooling towers.
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