80-01: The Effect of Fan Tip Clearance on Cooling Towers Performance Non Oxidizing Biocides Owners must give special consideration

Owners must give special consideration to the specifications of the fire wall system they are requesting for their cooling towers

There are instances when an owner wants to assess the thermal performance of just an individual cell of a cooling tower as per ATC 105

They do this by capturing the water droplets and returning them to the water tower

Air-Cooled Condensers (ACCs) offer a way to significantly reduce U

within an 11 week planned outage during the Winter of 2002

80-01: The Effect of Fan Tip Clearance on Cooling Towers Performance Non Oxidizing Biocides Owners must give special considerationOne of the parameters that affect the performance of axial flow fans of induced draft cooling towers is the clearance between the tip of the fan blade and the fan stack. Fan performance in turn influences the behavior of the cooling tower as a whole. Very little full scale information is available to indicate the magnitude of the effect of tip clearance on cooling tower performance. This paper presents test data taken on actual cooling tower