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Cooling towers : principles and practice /

Cooling Towers: Principles and Practice, Third Edition, aims to provide the reader with a better understanding of the theory and practice, so that installations are correctly designed and operated. As with all branches of engineering, new technology calls for a level of technical knowledge which bec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hill, G. B. (Gerald Bowen)
Otros Autores: Pring, E. J., Osborn, Peter D. (Peter David), Stanford, W. (William)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1990.
Edición:3rd ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover; Cooling Towers: Principles and Practice; Copyright Page; Preface; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Section A: Cooling tower practice; A.1 Fundamentals; A.2 Types of cooling tower; A.3 Rating, duty and physical size of cooling towers; A.4 Cooling tower components and construction materials; A.5 Practical aspects of tower selection; A.6 Noise and noise control; A.7 Industrial applications; A.8 Water quality and treatment; A.9 Legionnaires disease; A.10 Maintenance; Section B: Cooling tower theory and calculations; B.1 Psychrometry; B.2 Heat transfer theory.
  • B.3 Heat transfer calculationsB. 4 Selection of tower size for a given duty; B.5 Corrections for altitude; B.6 The use of charts for calculation of cooling tower duties; B.7 Determination of water cooling duties; B.8 Symbols used in calculations; Section C: Data and tables; C.1 The basis of the SI system of units; C.2 Definitions and relationships of relevant units; C.3 Conversions into SI units; C.4 Meteorological tables and data; C.5 Variation with pressure/temperature of physical properties of steam, water and dry air; C.6 Variation with temperature of the enthalpy of saturated air.
  • C.7 Relationship between pressure drop and volume flow in steel pipesC. 8 Specific heat capacity of some common substances; C.9 Temperature conversions and some conversions to imperial units; Bibliography; Index.