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Volume 3, Issue 2 (Suppl) Ind Chem
ISSN: 2469-9764, ICO an open access journa Industrial Chemistry 2017
May 22-23, 2017
May 22-23, 2017 Las Vegas, USA
2nd World Conference on
Industrial Chemistry and Water Treatment
Xiaomin Wu et al., Ind Chem 2017, 3:2 (Suppl)
Water-saving eco-friendly cooling tower development and its performance evaluations
Xiaomin Wu, Fuqiang Chu and Song Yang
Tsinghua University, China
The weak points of traditional wet cooling tower include water loss and water mist pollution to the surrounding environment
as well as water freezing in cold winter. To solve these problems, a novel cooling tower that is water-saving and eco-
friendly is developed. The tower realizes the water-saving and mist-suppressing by adding an air heat exchanger to achieve
the non-evaporative heat rejection and reduce the dew-point temperature of the humid air at the tower outlet. A model for
calculating the tower thermal performance is established and software is developed based on the model. With the help of the
software, calculations can be carried out to optimize the cooling loads of the heat exchanger and the packing, with the airflow
resistance being matched between the air heat exchanger and packing layer for a given fan characteristic curve. Calculations
are implemented for a project that needs to reduce 60000 m3/h circulating water temperature from 42 °C to 32 °C. The results
show that, in case a single tower can treat 4000 m3/h circulating water, 15 towers are needed to guarantee the cooling capacities
throughout the year. As compared with the conventional wet tower, the towers can save 3.785×106 m3 water per year, so more
equipment investments for the tower can be recovered in the first year; the annual net savings is 1,900 million RMB for the
first year and 2900 million RMB for the year afterward, in the climate of Beijing area. In the area north of Beijing, even better
water-saving effect and economy can be achieved. Expression for demist rate of the new tower against the traditional one is also
proposed. The technology associated with the new tower is applied to several practical projects and good results are obtained.
Biography
Xiaomin Wu is a Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, China.
Her current research interests include heat and mass transfer, meso-scale process of phase transition and frosting control, boiling and condensation heat transfer
enhancement, design and optimization of heat exchanger, performance analysis and optimization of air-conditioning/refrigeration systems, water-saving and
energy-saving technologies.