UNIT 84 REVIEW QUESTIONS ANSWER KEY GO BACK TO INDEX
84-1) What are the two common mechanical draft cooling tower arrangements?
84-2) How does an induced draft cooling tower differ from a forced-draft tower?
84-3) What is cooling tower fill material?
84-4) What is an advantage of a cross flow tower as compared to a counter flow cooling
tower?
84-5) What is a cooling tower plume?
84-6) What is the working principle for an atmospheric draft cooling tower?
84-7) What type of heat is required to evaporate water?
84-8) Where does the heat come from to evaporate water in a cooling tower?
84-9) Can a cooling tower cool below the outside wet bulb temperature?
84-10) What is meant by cooling range?
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84-11) What is meant by the approach?
84-12) How is the heat load for a cooling tower calculated?
84-13) What is meant by drift?
84-14) Theoretically, how much water evaporates in a cooling water tower?
84-15) What is blow down?
84-16) How much makeup water is required for a cooling tower?
84-17) One psi is equal to how many feet of head?
84-18) Not including friction, what is the static discharge head for a water line thirty feet
high?
84-19) How should the circulating pump be located between the condenser and the
tower?
84-20) In addition to preventing scale, water treatment should protect the system
components against what other deteriorating condition?