Energy-Efficient Control of Evaporative Cooling Towers for Small Steam Power Plants
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Forced draft evaporative cooling towers are often used for condenser cooling in small steam power plants. Conventional control strategies keep the cooling pump operating at full speed all the time, and control the cooling water temperature by modulating the tower fan speed. In this work, an energy-efficient control strategy is proposed, that minimizes the combined consumption of the tower fans and circulation pump, while also avoiding the sustained operation of the fans within some forbidden velocity range, to avoid resonance effects. The proposed strategy can be easily implemented within standard industrial control system, and is demonstrated to operate satisfactorily by a simulation study.
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