Unified transport approach models for power plant impact in estuaries

Conference · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1976

OSTI ID:7361438

Eraslan, A H

The assessment of the environmental impact of power plant operations in an estuary requires the modelling of both physical and biological phenomena. In addition to the direct entrainment and impingement of the aquatic organisms at the intakes, power plants also indirectly affect the biota by altering the ambient hydrodynamic, thermal, and water quality conditions in an estuary. The modelling of both the physical and the biological phenomena can be accomplished by a unified transport approach which employs consistent balance (more general then conservation) principles, discrete-element formulation, input data, and computational algorithms for the solution of all the required physical and biological variables. One-dimensional models were developed by ORNL and UT staff for both tidal-transient and tidal-averaged simulations of the physical conditions and the behavior of the aquatic populations in estuaries.

• Research Organization: Tennessee Univ., Knoxville (USA)
• OSTI ID: 7361438
• Report Number(s): CONF-760622-21
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS
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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
AQUATIC ORGANISMS
BEHAVIOR
COMPUTER CALCULATIONS
ENTRAINMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
ESTUARIES
HUDSON RIVER
IMPINGEMENT
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
POWER PLANTS
RIVERS
SIMULATION
STREAMS
SURFACE WATERS
WATER QUALITY