A review of the crosswind effect on the natural draft cooling towers

X Li, H Gurgenci, Z Guan, X Wang, L **a - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Crosswind is a significant concern for the design and operation of a natural draft cooling
tower. The negative effects of crosswind on the thermal performance of natural draft cooling …

[PDF][PDF] A review study on cooling towers; types, performance and application

F Afshari, H Dehghanpour - ALKÜ Fen Bilimleri Dergisi, 2019‏ - dergipark.org.tr
Temperature control is a significant requirement in the most industrial process. In this regard,
cooling towers are key parts of many power plant installations. Operation of the cooling …

Effect mechanism of cooling delta aerodynamic field equalizing on the cooling characteristics of dry cooling tower

Y Zhao, Q Zhao, F Li, Q Liang, X Li, Y Chen - … Communications in Heat and …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
As the key heat transfer components for large-scale natural draft dry cooling tower (NDDCT),
the cooling deltas perform poorly when subjected to ambient crosswinds, thus leading to the …

On numerical methods; optimization of CFD solution to evaluate fluid flow around a sample object at low Re numbers

F Afshari, HG Zavaragh, B Sahin, RC Grifoni… - … and Computers in …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Computational fluid dynamic methods are applied to survey numerical approximations of
partial differential equations. In this area, there is a wide range of numerical methodologies …

Comparison of direct and indirect natural draft dry cooling tower cooling of the sCO2 Brayton cycle for concentrated solar power plants

S Duniam, I Jahn, K Hooman, Y Lu… - Applied Thermal …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
This study investigates the performance of direct and indirect cooling in conjunction with
natural draft dry cooling towers (NDDCT) for the heat rejection of a supercritical carbon …

The adoption of windbreak wall partially rotating to improve thermo-flow performance of natural draft dry cooling tower under crosswind

H Ma, F Si, K Zhu, J Wang - International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2018‏ - Elsevier
To reduce the adverse effect of crosswind on thermo-flow performance of the natural draft
dry cooling tower (NDDCT), a novel type of external flat windbreak walls is introduced …

Numerical study identifies the interaction between two adjacent dry cooling towers on fluid flow and heat transfer performances of the radiators at different points of …

H Ma, L Cai, F Si - International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2023‏ - Elsevier
A reliable thermal power plant in arid area usually has twin power-generating units
equipped with two dry cooling towers. For a twin-tower configuration, a three-dimensional …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of the forced convection induced by assistant fans on the thermal performance of an indirect dry cooling system

H Ma, N Cai, L Cai, F Si - Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Auxiliary forced convection induced by axial flow fans was introduced to improve the
ventilation and heat dissipation of a large-scale dry cooling tower under crosswinds. A …

Improvement mechanism of wedged column on the cooling performance of vertical delta radiator

X Li, T Guo, W Huang, L Wang, YB Zhao - International Journal of Heat and …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Vertical delta radiators were widely used in dry cooling towers as the key radiator element.
But the delta structure was very easy to induce large vortex between its two sides when the …

A numerical study of heat transfer charcteristics of a car radiator involved nanofluids

H Kakavand, M Molana - Heat Transfer—Asian Research, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
To investigate the heat transfer characteristics of a car radiator involved nanofluids, we used
GAMBIT & FLUENT softwares and calculated the effective physical parameters using some …