Achieving near-water-cooled power plant performance with air-cooled condensers

Wind tunnel simulation on re-circulation of air-cooled condensers of a power plant

The criteria as well as the methods and measurements of wind tunnel simulation on wind effects on air-cooled condensers in a power plant were discussed. The parameter of recirculation was suggested to describe the wind effects on the efficiency of the condenser. The result of practical project models shows that great wind effects of both wind speed and the angle of the incident flow on the effi...

Imaging at Rye Patch 3 Enhancement Strategies for Air - Cooled Condensers 4 BNL

In an effort to tap the vast geothermal resources of the western United States, Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson and U.S. Senator Harry Reid of Nevada recently announced a DOE initiative to expand the production and use of energy generated from heat within the earth. The new initiative is known as GeoPowering the West. During a news conference on Capitol Hill, Secretary Richardson also annou...

Solar-Enhanced Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers for Geothermal Power Plants

This paper focuses on the optimization of a Solar-Enhanced Natural-Draft Dry-Cooling Tower (SENDDCT), originally designed by the Queensland Geothermal Energy Centre of Excellence (QGECE), as the air-cooled condenser of a geothermal power plant. The conventional method of heat transfer augmentation through fin-assisted area extension is compared with a metal foam-wrapped tube bundle. Both lead t...

Mitigation of hydrogen hazards in water cooled power reactors

The Developing Prospect of Air-cooled Bainitic Steels

The unique properties of air-cooled bainitic steels have been described. A series of Mn containing air-cooled bainitic steels invented by authors is presented in this paper: including low carbon granular bainitic steels, low carbon grain-boundary allotriomorphic ferrite/granular bainite duplex steels, medium and medium high carbon bainite/martensite duplex steel, and low carbon carbide free bai...