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Cooling towers are the most used units designed to reduce cooling water temperature downstream the process both in once-through configurations and in those with a recycle. Their theoretical background is strictly related to the definition of humidity and wet bulb temperature. From a modeling point of view they can be solved as a standard desorption column whose specification is the outlet liquid temperature; the corresponding BVP can be smartly turned into as a standard ODE system to converge making calculations easier and allowing for the design of a packed bed unit as a case study.
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ASHRAE Handbook—Fundamentals 2002, Chap. 6.
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Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook 8th edition, table 2–150.
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Di Pretoro, A., Manenti, F. (2020). Cooling Towers. In: Non-conventional Unit Operations. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34572-3_3
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