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Sustaining thermal power plant production in low water supply regions using cooling towers

Climate and geographical changes are among many other reasons causing water depletion. This may cause reduction in water resourcing from rivers and lakes to cool existing or planed thermal power plants. The present paper presents an alternative way to treat the water shortage problem by using coolin...

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Main Authors: Al-Kayiem, H.H., Theeb, M.A.W.
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Published: WITPress 2014
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spelling my.utp.eprints.317722022-03-29T03:37:01Z Sustaining thermal power plant production in low water supply regions using cooling towers Al-Kayiem, H.H. Theeb, M.A.W. Climate and geographical changes are among many other reasons causing water depletion. This may cause reduction in water resourcing from rivers and lakes to cool existing or planed thermal power plants. The present paper presents an alternative way to treat the water shortage problem by using cooling towers. The paper presents the design and analysis of a closed cooling system for a 200 MW thermal power plant with a partial addition from the natural resources of 10, 20, 30, and 40 mixing ratios. The hydrothermal process of the condenser and the cooling tower were modelled and solved computationally using weather data of Baghdad. Two types of cooling towers have been investigated using different types of locally made fills. The procedure has been validated using in-service power plant data. An interesting finding from the numerical analyses of the cooling tower indicated that there is an optimum size for the cooling tower for best performance. It is recommended to design the cooling system with a 15 to 25 mixing ratio. Cross flow cooling tower was able to produce cooling water with 1oC compared to the cross flow cooling tower. © 2014 WIT Press. WITPress 2014 Article NonPeerReviewed https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84926451235&doi=10.2495%2fESUS140601&partnerID=40&md5=8702feafbe5f578529f5b89a10eac419 Al-Kayiem, H.H. and Theeb, M.A.W. (2014) Sustaining thermal power plant production in low water supply regions using cooling towers. WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 186 . pp. 679-690. http://eprints.utp.edu.my/31772/
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description Climate and geographical changes are among many other reasons causing water depletion. This may cause reduction in water resourcing from rivers and lakes to cool existing or planed thermal power plants. The present paper presents an alternative way to treat the water shortage problem by using cooling towers. The paper presents the design and analysis of a closed cooling system for a 200 MW thermal power plant with a partial addition from the natural resources of 10, 20, 30, and 40 mixing ratios. The hydrothermal process of the condenser and the cooling tower were modelled and solved computationally using weather data of Baghdad. Two types of cooling towers have been investigated using different types of locally made fills. The procedure has been validated using in-service power plant data. An interesting finding from the numerical analyses of the cooling tower indicated that there is an optimum size for the cooling tower for best performance. It is recommended to design the cooling system with a 15 to 25 mixing ratio. Cross flow cooling tower was able to produce cooling water with 1oC compared to the cross flow cooling tower. © 2014 WIT Press.
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author Al-Kayiem, H.H.
Theeb, M.A.W.
spellingShingle Al-Kayiem, H.H.
Theeb, M.A.W.
Sustaining thermal power plant production in low water supply regions using cooling towers
author_facet Al-Kayiem, H.H.
Theeb, M.A.W.
author_sort Al-Kayiem, H.H.
title Sustaining thermal power plant production in low water supply regions using cooling towers
title_short Sustaining thermal power plant production in low water supply regions using cooling towers
title_full Sustaining thermal power plant production in low water supply regions using cooling towers
title_fullStr Sustaining thermal power plant production in low water supply regions using cooling towers
title_full_unstemmed Sustaining thermal power plant production in low water supply regions using cooling towers
title_sort sustaining thermal power plant production in low water supply regions using cooling towers
publisher WITPress
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