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Air Velocity Impact on Cooling Tower Efficiency

The document presents the results of an experiment investigating the effect of air velocity on cooling tower performance. Four tests were conducted with varying air velocities while other parameters were held constant. The results show that as air velocity increases, cooling range and efficiency also increase. This is because higher air velocity enhances heat transfer between air and water in the tower, lowering the water outlet temperature and improving performance. Graphs demonstrate the direct relationships between air velocity and cooling range, outlet water temperature, and efficiency.

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Air Velocity Impact on Cooling Tower Efficiency

The document presents the results of an experiment investigating the effect of air velocity on cooling tower performance. Four tests were conducted with varying air velocities while other parameters were held constant. The results show that as air velocity increases, cooling range and efficiency also increase. This is because higher air velocity enhances heat transfer between air and water in the tower, lowering the water outlet temperature and improving performance. Graphs demonstrate the direct relationships between air velocity and cooling range, outlet water temperature, and efficiency.

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University of Zakho

College Of Engineering
Mechanical Department

Mechanical Lab
Experiment No.(5)

Investigation of The Effect of Air Velocity on The Cooling


Tower Performance

Presentation by: Diyar Saleem Yaqub


Group: B
4th Stage
Date Of Experiment : 14-11-2019
CALCULATION AND RESULTS

`Test No. 1 2 3 4
Cooling Load, Kw 1 1 1 1
Water Flow Rate, g/sec 40 40 40 40
Orifice Differential, mm H2O 6 10 15 19
Air Inlet Dry Bulb Temp. T1, °C 23.6 24.1 23.9 23.6
Air Inlet Wet Bulb Temp. T2, °C 15.7 16 16 15.9
Air Outlet Dry Bulb Temp. T3, °C 24.1 25.1 24.2 23.3
Air Outlet Wet Bulb Temp. T4, °C 21.1 22.6 23.1 22.6
Water Inlet Temp. T5, °C 28.6 29.1 28.6 27.4
Water Outlet Temp. T6, °C 23 22.8 21.5 20.8
Total Cooling Load, Kw 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1
°C 5.3 6.3 7.1 6.6
,°C 7.3 6.8 5.5 4.9
42.06 48.09 56.35 57.4
⁄ 1.574 2.075 2.55 2.88

Test No.1

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Approach to wet bulb & Cooling range
DISCUSSION:

Approach to wet bulb & Cooling range with Air Velocity


8
Approach to wet bulb
7Cooling range
6

1
00.51 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5
0 Air Velocity

From above graph when the Air Velocity increases also the value of cooling range increases
mean the value of cooling range directly proportional to air velocity because when air velocity
increases mean the force convection heat transfer occur in the tower between water and air and
the more rate of heat transfer occur between water and air of this result the value of T6 much
decreases mean the value of cooling range rises and , the value of T6 depended on the rate heat
transfer between air and water in the cooling tower mean when air velocity increase also the
force convection heat transfer increases between air and water of this result the value of T6
decrease mean the approach wet to bulb decreases .

Temperatures with Air Velocity


35
T1
30 T2 T3 T4 T5
Temperatures

T6
25

20

15

10

0
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5
Air Velocity

From above graph when the air velocity increases also the T6 decrease because the force
convection heat transfer rises between air and water in the cooling tower and the air velocity
have smaller effect on the T1,T2,T3,T4,T5 but the T5 a bit decreases .
Efficiency with Air Velocity
70

Efficiency % 60

50

40
Efficiency %
30

20

10

0
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5
Air Velocity

From above graph when the air velocity increases also the value of efficiency increases mean
efficiency directly proportional with air velocity because when the value of air velocity
increases also the value of T6 going to decrease mean the value of cooling range increases and
of this result the value of effeciency increases because the efficiency directly proportional with
cooling rang , but if the value of air velocity very increases in this time the value of efficiency
at the first going to rise but then remain to constant because the system reach the saturation
state .

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