Experimental characterization of the thermal behaviour of a "improved inverted cooling tower"

  1. Pascual Hernández, Rubén
  2. Navarro Cobacho, Pedro
  3. Ruiz Ramírez, Javier
  4. Lucas Miralles, Manuel
  5. Hernández Jiménez, Mónica
  6. Martínez Beltrán, Pedro Juan
  7. Martínez Martínez, Pedro
  8. Viedma Robles, Antonio
  9. Sánchez Kaiser, Antonio
Proceedings:
First Colloquium of the Spanish Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Society (SATMS2019): Madrid, 28 y 29 de marzo de 2019

Year of publication: 2019

Type: Conference paper

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Abstract

Cooling towers, among other equipments, could have an important atmospheric impact, becoming a source of pollutants or biological agents. One of these risks is related to the emission of droplets to the atmosphere. These droplets can be a vector for the dispersion of pollutants and infectious agents. The most important, due to its frequency and importance of the outbreaks, is Legionella. In this work, it is presented a new design of mechanical draft cooling tower that limits the emission of droplets to the exterior and prevents the dispersion of Legionela bacteria.