EPRI research on cooling tower performance
One of the primary goals of EPRI's Heat, Waste and Water Management Program is to improve the ability of the utility industry to predict and test the performance of power plant cooling systems. The object of this work is to develop improved methods and tools that will aid the industry in specifying cooling systems, evaluating bids, performing retrofitting studies, and testing system thermal performance. Current work includes research on once-through systems, cooling ponds and lakes, and wet and dry cooling towers. This paper describes research on conventional evaporative cooling towers. The effort includes the construction of a laboratory-scale fill test facility and performance evaluation of counterflow and crossflow fill configurations at both laboratory scale and full scale. Experimental data are being analyzed both by conventional methods and more recent methods of performance prediction developed at EPRI and elsewhere. The paper includes a summary of the experimental and analytical program.
- OSTI ID:
- 5162866
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-840238-
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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Related Subjects
200101* -- Fossil-Fueled Power Plants-- Cooling & Heat Transfer Equipment & Systems
COOLING
COOLING SYSTEMS
COOLING TOWERS
COUNTERFLOW SYSTEMS
CROSSFLOW SYSTEMS
DATA ANALYSIS
EFFICIENCY
ENERGY SYSTEMS
EPRI
EVAPORATIVE COOLING
MECHANICAL STRUCTURES
PERFORMANCE
POWER PLANTS
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
RETROFITTING
TEST FACILITIES
TESTING
THERMAL EFFICIENCY
THERMAL POWER PLANTS
TOWERS