THE EFFECT OF THE CHOICE OF THE ENTHALPY ZERO-POINT ON COOLING-TOWER DESIGN AND PACKING DATA-PROCESSING

Many contemporary computational procedures, packing characterization data processing techniques and acceptance cooling tower testing methods are Merkel-method based. We show in our paper that one of the simplifying assumptions of the Merkel method may be eliminated by a simple shift in the water enthalpy zero point. The accuracy of the computation increases significantly, especially for recooled water temperatures close to the theoretical cooling limit, without the method losing any of its simplicity.