Introduction

The SOLTEQR Basic Cooling Tower Unit (Model: HE152) has been designed to
show students the construction, design and operational characteristics of a modern
cooling system. The unit resembles a full size forced draught cooling tower and it is
actually an "open
system" through which two streams of fluid which in this case air and water pass and
in which there is a mass transfer from one stream to the other. The unit is self-
contained supplied with a heating load and a circulating pump. Once energy and mass
balances are done, then students will be able to determine the effects on the
performance of the cooling tower by several parameters which are temperature and
flow rate of water, relative humidity and flow rate of air, and cooling load.
Packing characteristics column which is optional (A, B, C, D) are available for
SOLTEQR Basic Cooling Tower Unit (Model: HE152). The column is designed to
assist
study of water and air conditions at three additional stations (I, II and III) within the
column.
This enables driving force diagrams to be constructed and the determination of the
Characteristic Equation for the Tower. (Experimental Manual, Water Cooling Tower;
MODEL: HE 152)
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