Numerical study of the influence of ambient conditions on the mechanical cooling tower drift deposition in an urban area

  1. Hernández Jiménez, Mónica
  2. Sánchez Kaiser, Antonio 1
  3. Zamora Parra, Blas 1
  4. Viedma Robles, Antonio 1
  5. Lucas Miralles, Manuel 1
  6. Martínez Beltrán, Pedro Juan 1
  7. Ruiz Ramírez, Javier
  1. 1 Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena
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    Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena

    Cartagena, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02k5kx966

Actas:
14th IAHR Cooling Tower and Air-cooled Heat Exchanger Conference: Stellenbosch (Sudáfrica), del 1 al 3 de diciembre de 2009

Año de publicación: 2009

Tipo: Aportación congreso

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Resumen

Drift of small water droplets from mechanical draft cooling tower installations is objectionable for several reasons, mainly due to human health reasons. A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code including Lagrangian prediction of the trajectory descent of droplets is considered to predict plume rise and surface drift deposition from mechanical draft cooling towers. The influence of psychrometric ambient conditions and wind velocity profiles on the drift is considered. CFD drift deposition calculations are performed for a specific urban mechanical draft cooling tower situation. The data registered of the plume performance and drift deposition in the experimental set-up are employed to validate the numerical results