Oriented Spray-Assisted Cooling Tower

Abstract

The oriented spray-assisted cooling tower (OSACT) is a new approach to natural draft cooling tower design which increases air flow through the cooling tower while reducing water loading in the heat exchanger fill material. Rigorous computer codes which have been validated by comparison vWhextensive test data are used to compute the improvement in heat transfer to increase the cooling tower capability over that of conventional design. The resulting improvement in cooling system performance enhances the economic competitiveness of power plants with cooling towers by increasing the elecbical output without an increase in consumption of fuel or aLDCiliary power.