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The efficiency index of mechanical-draft and chimney-type water cooling towers operation

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It is shown that the water temperature ranges in cooling towers given in the regulatory documents are not consistent with the standardized heat loads. It is also demonstrated that the existing criteria for estimating the effect from retrofitting of cooling towers are far from being perfect. The notions of cooling tower efficiency index and their operating characteristics with the nominal values of the main parameters are introduced. A procedure for determining these quantities is developed. An algorithm for directly calculating the economic effect from reconstruction of cooling towers is proposed.

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  1. Plastenergo Scientific Industrial Firm, ul. Chapaeva 23, Kremenchug, Poltava region, 39609, Ukraine

    S. K. Sosnovskii

  2. Odessa National Polytechnic University, pr. Shevchenko 1, Odessa, 65044, Ukraine

    V. P. Kravchenko

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Original Russian Text © S.K. Sosnovskii, V.P. Kravchenko, 2014, published in Teploenergetika.

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Sosnovskii, S.K., Kravchenko, V.P. The efficiency index of mechanical-draft and chimney-type water cooling towers operation. Therm. Eng. 61, 636–641 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0040601514090110

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