Mechanical draft coolers, also known as heat exchangers, use fans to blow or draw air through the exchanger to cool processes. Air is a readily available and inexpensive cooling medium, though it has poor heat transfer properties. The design of mechanical draft coolers is influenced by operating conditions, fouling effects, ambient conditions, and practical considerations. Simple methods can evaluate small coolers, but more advanced methods are needed for large, specialized, or expensive systems. Standards organizations provide methods for determining the performance of air-cooled heat exchangers.
Mechanical draft coolers, also known as heat exchangers, use fans to blow or draw air through the exchanger to cool processes. Air is a readily available and inexpensive cooling medium, though it has poor heat transfer properties. The design of mechanical draft coolers is influenced by operating conditions, fouling effects, ambient conditions, and practical considerations. Simple methods can evaluate small coolers, but more advanced methods are needed for large, specialized, or expensive systems. Standards organizations provide methods for determining the performance of air-cooled heat exchangers.
Mechanical draft coolers, also known as heat exchangers, use fans to blow or draw air through the exchanger to cool processes. Air is a readily available and inexpensive cooling medium, though it has poor heat transfer properties. The design of mechanical draft coolers is influenced by operating conditions, fouling effects, ambient conditions, and practical considerations. Simple methods can evaluate small coolers, but more advanced methods are needed for large, specialized, or expensive systems. Standards organizations provide methods for determining the performance of air-cooled heat exchangers.
Mechanical draft coolers, also known as heat exchangers, use fans to blow or draw air through the exchanger to cool processes. Air is a readily available and inexpensive cooling medium, though it has poor heat transfer properties. The design of mechanical draft coolers is influenced by operating conditions, fouling effects, ambient conditions, and practical considerations. Simple methods can evaluate small coolers, but more advanced methods are needed for large, specialized, or expensive systems. Standards organizations provide methods for determining the performance of air-cooled heat exchangers.
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Intro to mechanical draft coolers
Many different types of mechanical draft coolers or heat
exchangers are found in a wide spectrum of industries. Air may be blown or drawn through the heat exchanger by a fan. The former configuration is referred to as a forced-draft system while the latter is called an induced-draft system. Despite the poor cooling properties of air, it is available in unlimited quantities throughout the year. No costs are incurred for its procurement, and there is no disposal problem or significant impact on the environment. Operating temperatures, fan accessibility, process specifications, ambient conditions, fouling, and other practical considerations will influence the ultimate system design. Although fouling effects are not specifically included in the performance evaluations described in this chapter, its effect on the heat transfer and mass transfer rates and the flow resistance can be incorporated readily in any analysis. To design small air-cooled heat exchangers or to evaluate the performance characteristics of a particular unit, relatively simple but approximate methods may be adequate. However, these methods are usually less acceptable in the case of mass produced or large, specialized, and expensive systems. The performance of air-cooled heat exchangers may be determined according to different standards from authorities such as Rose et al., the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Verein Deutscher Ingenieure, and ASME PTC 30-1991.