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[Guilherme]

Dear All,

Does anyone have an idea how to size a cooling tower basin capacity (in concrete)? If I´m not wrong seems that it considers 5 min of hold-up but I´m not sure. Is there an standard for this?

Thanks in advance.

Guilherme

this is wat i found in ChE Answer Section..hope it helps...........

Question: IS there a rule of thumb to estimate the footprint of a cooling tower during design phase?

Answer: Over the years, this one has seemed to stand the test of time:
Every million Btu/h of tower capacity will require approximately 1000 ft2 of cooling tower basin area.

[Profe]

Hi Guilherme
Download the next pdf file
Cooling tower fundamentals by SPX at:
http://spxcooling.co...undamentals.pdf
look at 37 page about cooling towers basins
this material is good reference for increase your knowledge.

Good luck

[jetul]

thanks and keep posting

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