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ANSI/ASME PTC 23-2003
Atmospheric Water Cooling Equipment
Provides uniform test methods for conducting and reporting thermal performance characteristics of wet mechanical draft, natural draft, wet-dry cooling towers, closed circuit evaporative (wet) coolers, and wet surface air-cooled steam condensers. This Code also provides directions and rules for conducting and reporting plume abatement of wet-dry cooling towers and water consumption of any cooling tower. This Code provides explicit test procedures to yield results of the highest levels of accuracy consistent with the best engineering knowledge and practice currently available. The purpose of this Code is to provide rules for monitoring thermal performance or for conducting acceptance tests on all of the cooling equipment referenced above. It provides rules for monitoring plume abatement and conducting plume-abatement acceptance tests on wet-dry cooling towers.
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American Society of Mechanical Engineers [asme]