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N4 Cooling Towers

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The words cooling and tower come from early model evaporative cooling towers which were used for cooling water by evaporation and were substantial in height to gain a natural draught effect. However, the means of achieving airflow was in some cases replaced by forced or induced draught fan systems, without the need for tall towers but the name cooling tower has stuck. The term in general includes wet as well as dry cooling systems, but as the subject of dry heat exchangers is adequately covered in other sections of this publication this section is dedicated to wet systems using evaporative cooling where the water being cooled is in direct contact with the air flowing through the cooling tower.

Evaporative cooling towersare devices which are used to remove heat from various types of machinery or industrial process equipment either directly or through intermediate heat exchangers by making use of evaporative cooling. By implication, when using this principle, some water,...

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    Erens, P.J. (2010). N4 Cooling Towers. In: VDI Heat Atlas. VDI-Buch. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77877-6_107

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