Experimental Study and Performance Analysis of Ceramic Packing Cooling Tower Using Taguchi Method

摘要

Deterioration of the packing material is a major problem in cooling tower. In this experimental study, ceramic tile is used as packing material. The experimental study was conducted in a forced draft cooling tower. Cooling tower operating parameters were optimized using Taguchi approach. The application of Taguchi method is assessing maximum cooling tower effectiveness for the Forced draft counter flow cooling tower using ceramic packing. An experimental study has been carried out for Taguchi's L9 orthogonal array. According to Orthogonal array the trail was performed under different inlet conditions of flow rate of water, air and Inlet water temperature. Signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) and regression were carried out in order to determine the effects of process parameters on cooling tower effectiveness. Finally confirmation tests verified this reliability of Taguchi method for optimization of forced draft counter flow cooling tower performance with sufficient accuracy. Confirmation experiment was done using optimum combination showed that cooling tower effectiveness was found by experiment is closer to the predicated value.