A testbook.com Pea) Rec aR eres Start Complete Exam Preparation Ro re. ocd f Teac MasterClasses Creag Download App Question View this Question Online > Cooling tower is used to: This question was previously asked in tps cue ane ct) Held on March 2020 View all APPSC Polytechnic Lecturers Papers > 1. Cool the space or room 2. Cool the hot water coming from the condenser 3. Freeze the water 4, Increase the pressure of water Answer (Detailed Solution Below) Option 2 : Cool the hot water coming from the condenser Detailed Solution Explanation: The cooling tower cools the warm water discharged from the condenser and feed the cool water back to the condenser. Thus reduces the cooling water demand in the power plant. Cooling water is used at the places of a scarcity of water. Types of the cooling tower.Wet Cooling Towers Dry Cooling Towers + In wet cooling towers, water is sprayed on fills or packing. Fill mixes falling * Dry cooling towers water with ait. Air enters are employed where through louvres. This mixing] cooling water is not results in heat transfer, available in plenty, which cools the water. even for the use of + The minimum temperature makeup. to which water can be + Ina dry tower, warm cooled is the adiabatic water from the saturation or wet-bulb condenser flows temperature of the ambient | __ through the finned air. tubes over which the + The cooled water is cooling air is passed. collected in the basin at the Heat is rejected to the bottom, from where it is air as water is cooled. pumped back to the condenser. uu Rimportant Point * For cooling of room and space Air conditioner is used + For the freezing of water, the refrigerator is used. + To increase the pressure of the water, a pump is used