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Cooling Towers and Chilled Water Systems
Design, Operation, and Economic Analysis
- 1st Edition - October 1, 2024
- Author: Ricardo de Freitas Fernandes Pontes
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 9 7 7 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 9 7 8 - 5
Cooling Towers and Chilled Water Systems: Design, Operation, and Economic Analysis is a guide to the design and operation of cooling systems within high temperature settings.… Read more
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Request a sales quoteCooling Towers and Chilled Water Systems: Design, Operation, and Economic Analysis is a guide to the design and operation of cooling systems within high temperature settings. The book presents various strategies to increase the turndown of cooling towers and chilled water systems and provides a toolkit for engineers to determine the use of variable frequency drivers. A guide to equipment selection for optimal design during the detailed engineering phase is provided, ensuring the reader is able to comply with the project specification within budget. Sections discuss various systems, circuits and processes for cooling tower and chiller systems before detailing design principles.
Operational and control strategies are then discussed before a thorough analysis of economic factors, making this book idea for professional engineers, graduate students and researchers working in high-temperature settings, such as power generation or chemical plants.
- Presents strategies and tools for engineers to develop and manage efficient cooling towers and chilled water systems
- Analyzes the economic benefits of cooled water system designs through the full lifecycle, instructing the reader on how to accurately estimate operating costs
- Guides the reader through appropriate equipment selection to comply with project needs
Power engineers in thermal plants, equipment design engineers of cooling towers and chiller designs, plant and operation engineers responsible for troubleshooting plant problems and retrofitting plants, graduate students in power engineering, thermal engineering, nuclear engineering, chemical engineering disciplines
1. Introduction
2. Cooling tower and chillers systems
Cooling processes
Open and closed loop water circuits
Water quality for cooling processes
Cooling towers and components
Chillers and components
Water pumping systems
3. Design of cooling towers and chilled water systems
Design criteria for cooling processes
Determination of operating and design conditions
Project uncertainties and overdesign factors
Varying conditions in plants
Equipment turndown
4. Operational and control strategies
Intermittent operations
Variable Frequency Drivers (VFDs)
Operational procedures for extreme weather conditions
Control strategies
5. Economic analysis
Capital costs estimation
Operating costs estimation
Methodology to minimize overall costs
- No. of pages: 250
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 1, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323909778
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Ricardo de Freitas Fernandes Pontes
Dr. Pontes’ career started as a chemical engineer at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP), when he started working for the research and development department of Ultragaz. In 2000, he returned to USP to start his Master’s degree in chemical engineering, which he concluded in 2002. He then went to work as a project engineer working for Exen while simultaneously started his Doctor’s degree. In 2010, Dr. Pontes went to work for Pöyry also as a project engineer before returning to his academic career at Universidade Mackenzie and later in that same year for Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), lecturing courses on Process Simulation and Projects. In 2018, he received a grant from FAPESP for his research project on the Optimal Synthesis of Cooling Water Systems.
Affiliations and expertise
Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) – Campus Diadema; Chemical Engineering Department; Rua Sao Nicolau, Brazil