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Cooling Things Down
Industrial cooling from the chiller to the tower: the water and solids mass balance, and why cycles of concentration is the most important operating variable.
Reading time40 minReading13 of 15
“The production of heat alone is not sufficient to give birth to power: it is necessary that there should also be cold; without it, the heat would be useless. ”
Learning objectives
- The requirements of industrial scale
- The vapor-compression chiller
- The water and solids mass balance
- Cycles of concentration: the most important operating variable
Chapter 12 is in the first edition.
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