by What is meant by Air intake louvers?
- Slats located at the bottom or sides of a cooling tower to direct airflow.
What is meant by Approach to tower?
- The temperature difference between the water leaving
a cooling tower and the wet-bulb temperature of the air entering the tower.
What is meant by Basin?
-Storage compartment for water at the bottom of a cooling tower.
What is meant by Blow-down?
-A process of controlling the level of suspended solids
in a cooling tower by removing a certain amount of water from the basin.
What is meant by Cooling range?
-The temperature difference between the hot and cold water in a cooling tower.
What is meant by Drift eliminators?
-Devices used in a cooling tower to keep water from blowing out.
What is meant by Drift loss?
-Entrained water lost from a cooling tower in the exiting air;
also called windage loss.
What is meant by Dry bulb temperature (DBT)?
-The air temperature as measured by a thermometer without the presence of moisture in it.
What is meant by Forced-draft?
-Type of mechanical-draft cooling tower that uses fans
to push air into the tower.
What is meant by Induced-draft?
-Type of mechanical-draft cooling tower that
uses fans to pull air out of the tower.
What is meant by Relative humidity?
-Ratio between mass of water in the moist air to
the mass of water in the saturated air.
What is meant by Wet-bulb temperature (WBT)?
-The air temperature as measured by thermometer without the presence of moisture in it.
