This document presents a project on the fabrication and performance study of a cooling tower. It discusses the components of a cooling tower including the collecting tank, water pump, temperature measuring devices, nozzles and fan. It describes the working principle of a cooling tower and discusses how heat is transferred from hot water to cold air. The objectives are to fabricate a cooling tower, increase heat transfer by changing baffle materials and arrangements, and compare experimental and analytical data on energy performance. Materials have been procured and the cooling tower frame has been constructed.
This document presents a project on the fabrication and performance study of a cooling tower. It discusses the components of a cooling tower including the collecting tank, water pump, temperature measuring devices, nozzles and fan. It describes the working principle of a cooling tower and discusses how heat is transferred from hot water to cold air. The objectives are to fabricate a cooling tower, increase heat transfer by changing baffle materials and arrangements, and compare experimental and analytical data on energy performance. Materials have been procured and the cooling tower frame has been constructed.
This document presents a project on the fabrication and performance study of a cooling tower. It discusses the components of a cooling tower including the collecting tank, water pump, temperature measuring devices, nozzles and fan. It describes the working principle of a cooling tower and discusses how heat is transferred from hot water to cold air. The objectives are to fabricate a cooling tower, increase heat transfer by changing baffle materials and arrangements, and compare experimental and analytical data on energy performance. Materials have been procured and the cooling tower frame has been constructed.
This document presents a project on the fabrication and performance study of a cooling tower. It discusses the components of a cooling tower including the collecting tank, water pump, temperature measuring devices, nozzles and fan. It describes the working principle of a cooling tower and discusses how heat is transferred from hot water to cold air. The objectives are to fabricate a cooling tower, increase heat transfer by changing baffle materials and arrangements, and compare experimental and analytical data on energy performance. Materials have been procured and the cooling tower frame has been constructed.
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A PROJECT PRESENTATION
ON FABRICATION AND PERFORMANCE STUDY OF COOLING TOWER
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF: SUBMITTED BY: Mr. Prashant Kumar Yadava Abhinay Pandey (1513340007) (Asst. Professor) Akash Soni (1513340021) Akash Verma (1513340022) Aayushman (1513340002) Introduction • A cooling tower is a heat rejecting device. • Reject waste heat to the environment. • Uses air or water to cool the hot fluid. • Cooling towers are able to lower the water temperatures more than devices that use only air to reject heat. • Cooling towers are a very important part of many chemical plants, refrigeration system etc. Working Principle • The hot water from the tank is supplied into the cooling tower with the help of water pump. • The water is passed into the cooling tower through the pipe and sprayed from the top of the cooling tower. • As the water falls down it comes in contact with the natural air which is entering into the cooling tower. • When the water comes in contact with the air heat transfer takes place between the hot water and the cold air. Major Components
• COLLECTING TANK • WATER PUMP • TEMP MEASURING DEVICE • NOZZLE • FAN Water Pump • A pump is a device that moves fluids by mechanical action • Pumps can be classified into two major groups 1. Centrifugal pump 2. Reciprocating pump
Specification: Power: 18W Volt: 165-250 V Speed : 660 Rpm Fan • A fan is a machine used to create flow within a fluid. • The fan consists of a rotating arrangement of blades which act on the fluid. • The rotating assembly of blades and hub is known as an impeller. Specification: Power: 180 W Speed: 1400 rpm Fan size: 15 inch Temperature Measuring Device
• Thermocouples are used for measuring the inlet air
temperature. • Thermocouples are work on the seeback effect. • Sling psychrometer is used to measure both the dry bulb tempreture and wet bulb temperatures at time. Thermocouple Sling psychrometer Nozzle
• A nozzle is a pipe or tube of varying cross sectional area.
• Nozzles are frequently used to control the rate of flow speed, direction or pressure of the stream that emerges from them. Collecting Tank
• In this project two tanks are required
1. To collect the hot water coming from the plant 2. To collect the cold water coming from the tower
• Tanks are made up of galvanized steel
• Tanks provided are having capacity to hold water up to 100 liters. COLLECTING TANK Performance These are measured parameters and then used to determine the cooling tower performance in several ways. • Range this is the difference between the cooling tower water inlet and outlet temperature. 𝑪𝑻 𝑹𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 (°𝑪) = 𝑪𝑾 𝒊𝒏𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒑 (°𝑪) − 𝑪𝑾 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒑 (°𝑪)
• Approach this is the difference between the cooling tower outlet
Coldwater temperature and ambient wet bulb temperature. 𝑪𝑻 𝑨𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉 (°𝑪) = 𝑪𝑾 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒑 (°𝑪) − 𝑾𝒆𝒕 𝒃𝒖𝒍𝒃 𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒑 (°𝑪) • Effectiveness this is the ratio between the range and the ideal range. • Cooling Capacity this is the heat rejected in kCal/hr or TR, given as product of mass flow rate of water, specific heat and temperature difference. Advantage • Recycling of waste water. • Effective cooling of water is possible. • Low construction cost. • Operation cost is low. • Easy to operate. Disadvantages • Sensitive to climate changes • Only effective for large quantity of utility water Application • Power plant • Petroleum refineries • Food processing plants • Chemical plants • Refrigeration and chilling plants Literature Review 1. B.K. Yadav & S. L. Soni: Has discussed about cooling tower is used to reduce the temperature of hot water stream. It is mainly used in air conditioning plants, chemical plants etc. Evaporation loss and effectiveness are two important performance parameters of cooling tower.
2. B.B. Sai, K.Srinivasa Rao: Has described a detailed methodology
of an Induced draft cooling tower of counter flow type in which its efficiency, effectiveness, characteristics are calculated. The technical data has been taken from a mechanical draft cooling tower. 3. Ronak Shah, Trupti Rathod:The new cooling towers have many desirable features, including pure water, low noise, safety, energy effective and so on. The mathematical models of the counter flow closed circuit cooling towers are established in terms of mass and heat balance. Performance curve of the cooling towers is drawn and it is mainly calculated that the outlet temperature of cooling water varies with the spray water flow rate. Results of the theoretical calculation are found to be close to the experimental data Objective • Fabrication of the cooling tower. • Increase the rate of heat transfer by changing the baffle material and arrangements. • Compare experimental and analytical data of the energy performance. Methodology Designing of cooling Material required Material order tower
Fabrication of cooling Inspection of
Material received tower material
Fixing of accessories Testing of model and mountings Progress Of The Report • We have read the research paper and the thesis regarding the topic. • The material and component have been procured • Frame of the cooling tower has been made. • Fitting of mounting and accessories are in progress Materials procured
Fills Digital thermometer Regulator
Switch panel Pump
Frame Reference • R. Ramkumar and Ragupathy, “Thermal Performance of Forced Draft counter Flow Cooling tower . • R.S. Khurmi- Refrigeration and Air Conditioning. • C.P. Arora-- Refrigeration and Air Conditioning. • Georgia F. Cortinovis, Jose L. Paiva – A systematic approach for optimal cooling tower operation THANK YOU
