Experimental Water-Cooling Tower/Cooling tower (Model No. HVO-MT-24)
Experimental Water-Cooling Tower
Description
The set-up is designed to demonstrate and study of heat & mass transfer during the process in a forced draft counter flow type water cooling tower.
The set up consists of specially designed; SS vertical tower packed with aluminum mesh packing, fitted with front side acrylic window to provide actual visualization of cooling tower operation. The air from a blower enters at lower end of tower and after passing through the mesh packing leave the column from top outlet to atmosphere. Counter – currently hot water from water bath is evenly distributed over the packing by nozzles at top of the tower using circulation pump.
An arrangement is made to vary and measure the airflow rate & temperatures at different locations in the tower. The hot water bath is provided with level gauge enables to show the exact evaporation loss. The temperature of water in bath can be independently varied to simulate different conditions using digital temp.
Experiments
- Actual visualization of the cooling tower operation
- To find out mass transfer coefficient, plot pressure drop per unit height with airflow rate
Features
- Superb Painted structure
- Simple to operate & maintain
- Compact & stand alone set up
Utilities Required
- Water Supply & Drain
- Electricity Supply: 1Phase, 220 V AC, 1.5 kW
- Instruments, Laboratory Glassware and Chemicals required for analysis as per the system adopted
Technical Specification
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Tower |
Material Stainless Steel, Size - Cross-Section 150x 150mm, Height 750 mm |
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Packing |
Expanded wire mesh |
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Air Circulation |
FHP blower, Arrangement is done to vary the air flow rate. |
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Air flow measurement |
Pitot tube with manometer |
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Hot Water Tank |
Material Stainless Steel, Double wall, insulated with ceramic fiber wool with Nichrome wire heater |
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Hot Water Circulation |
Magnetic Pump made of Polypropylene to Circulate hot Water. Maximum working temperature is 75°C FHP pump, |
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Rotameter |
to vary & measure the flow rate of hot water |
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Temp. Measurement |
RTD PT-100 type Temp. Sensors 6 Nos |
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Control panel |
Digital Temperature Indicator: 0-199.9°C, with multi-channel switch Digital Temp. Controller 0-199.9°C for water bath, On/off switch, Mains Indicator etc. |
*The whole set-up is well designed and arranged in a good quality painted structure.