TY - JOUR 
A1 - Lucas Miralles, Manuel
AU - Martínez Beltrán, Pedro Juan
AU - Viedma Robles, Antonio
T1 - Experimental drift study of a dry and adiabatic fluid cooler
Y1 - 2008
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10317/603
AB - Water drift emitted from cooling towers is objectionable for several reasons, mainly due to human health reasons. These objections raise walls to the installation of the cooling towers and penalize the COP of the cooling plants they serve.The dry and adiabatic fluid cooler works as a standard fluid dry cooler enhancing the dry cooler´s capacity with adiabatic pre-cooling of the air intake. The objectives of this work were two-fold: the first one was to review the drift test methods usually used on cooling towers, and the second one was to carry out drift measurements on a dry and adiabatic fluid cooler and on a cooling tower of similar capacity working in real facilitis. No drift was registered on the dry and adiabatic fluid cooler by using the sensitive paper drift test method, while a drift of 0.0023% was measured in the cooling tower.
KW - Mecánica de Fluidos
KW - Torre de enfriamiento
KW - Aguas derivadas
KW - Legionella
KW - Líquido enfriador
KW - Drift
KW - Cooling tower
KW - Legionella
KW - Sensitive paper
KW - Fluid mechanics
LA - eng
PB - Elsevier Science
ER -