The heat that the cooling tower must reject from the water in the chiller is the cooling load of the conditioned area plus the heat of ____.

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The heat that the cooling tower must reject from the water in the chiller is the cooling load of the conditioned area plus the heat of compression. This is because the chiller works by compressing refrigerant vapor, which releases heat, and then condensing it back into a liquid, which absorbs heat. This cycle produces heat that must be removed through the cooling tower. The other options (absorption, vortexing, cavitation) do not apply to the chiller's operation and do not produce additional heat that needs to be rejected by the cooling tower.

The Heat That the Cooling Tower Must Reject from the Water