I've often got multiple identical cooling towers in my projects. I'm always wondering whether I should create multiple cooling towers and put each of them on a branch, or use a single cooling tower with multiple cells.
I often end up creating multiple ones just because I'm also not quite sure what I should input in certain fields (the value for one cell or for the whole tower). But reading the engineering reference guide (see link below), I get the feeling I should really be using one tower with multiple cells.
Here's a dummy example to get the ball rolling:
I have a few questions, but I don't think any warrant an additional separate question:
- What should I input for
Minimum Airflow Ratio? Is the rest correct? - My main question: Is there any advantages in using 2 identical CT or one CT with multiple cells? Which are they?
- Bonus question: if using a multiple cell tower, what the advantages of using MinimalCell or MaximalCell (the engineering reference throws me off... I'd have thought maximal cell would be more efficient due to fan affinity law but I'm not sure anymore)
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