Abstract
AbstractIn the present study, an induced draft wet cooling tower has been experimentally investigated using film, glass, and ball fills. Film fills are used only in industry where scaling is less or low‐scale process water is used because of clogging of fills. Whereas, glass fills and ball fills are used for higher‐scale water. The main objective of this study is to investigate the performance and compare the result of film fills with glass fills and ball fills and also predict the loss as compared to film fills when glass and ball fills were used for high‐scaling water under such environmental conditions and different ratio of water to air flow and water inlet temperatures. Various performance parameters are analyzed for each of the fills and it was found that tower characteristics of film fills are 18.56% and 15.59% more than that of glass and ball fills, respectively, at water inlet temperature of 43°C and water‐to‐air flow ratio of 0.62. Moreover, exergy destruction was also calculated for each of the fills and it was observed that film fills destruct less exergy as compared with glass and ball fills.
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