Abstract
In this study, a simplified analytical model based on evaporative cooling theory is developed to investigate the coupled heat and mass transfer processes in a direct contact counter flow forced draft cooling tower. The complex sets of differential equations are simplified to linearized differential form and solved using the initial boundary value problem. When the projected results are compared to experimental data published in the literature, found good consensus. The prediction discrepancy observed for the air outlet temperature, air outlet humidity, and water outlet temperature is 0.5 %, 1.8%, and 1.5% respectively. In the design process of cooling towers, cooling tower performance, air, and water outlet conditions are more crucial. This model gives quick and accurate predictions of air and water outlet conditions, and cooling tower performance. So this research can be used as a reference to design the cooling towers.
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