I am invariably finding many hits on cooling tower capacity & performance calculation and related queries. Therefore, I have decided to include the detailed calculation procedure in order to enable many students & process engineers who are interested in improving cooling towers performance by following these simple steps. If you have any query, kindly post them in the comments section. I’ll try my level best to answer those queries as soon as possible. First you should collect all the data as given below. Be sure that the data collected for these temperatures is most accurate because of lower absolute level of generally ~40°C average temperatures, an error of 0.5°C due to manual data collection & judgment will cause more than 1.2% error in the result at one calculation. Repeating such errors may result in cumulative errors of more than 10% in totality giving you totally absurd results. So the basic point is that collect the data on regular basis, keep a watch to have a feel of real values & then proceed

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Power transmission equipment e.g. gears or couplings are the most neglected areas where nobody (including good energy auditors also) focuses for energy saving opportunities.

However, a certain approach or simple steps can improve their efficiency by at least 2% which may result in total annual cost saving in power bill by more than 6%.

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Traditionally, the cogeneration of steam and electricity has been restricted to plants that generate superheated steam, making the recovery of energy losses from saturated steam impossible for many industrial sites ranging from distilleries to pharmaceutical plants and pulp-and-paper mills.

Pennat International Corp promised to change that with the introduction of its new Energy Conversion System (ECS) Series of saturated steam turbines

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