TY - BOOK AU - Leena Omar Mohamed Elsayed Abdelsalam AU - Essam E. Khalil , AU - Gamal Elhariry , AU - Kamal Ahmed Abed , TI - Optimal design of forced draft counter flow cooling towers / PY - 2017/// CY - Cairo : PB - Leena Omar Mohamed Elsayed Abdelsalam , KW - Counter flow cooling towers KW - Forced draft KW - Parametric analysis N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Mechanical Power Engineering; Issued also as CD N2 - The study aims at analytically determining the optimum conditions for a counter flow forced draft cooling tower taking the minimization of the operating cost as an objective. First a mathematical model that effectively describes the counter flow cooling tower was selected and the programming was carried out with MATLAB software. Then a parametric analysis was conducted in which the effect of parameters: air and water mass flow rate(s), inlet water temperature was investigated on performance parameters. Finally different case studies were examined in order to select optimum conditions which resulted in minimizing the operating cost UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -