Thermal power plant is one of the eight high water consumption industries in China, and circulating cooling largest project. Under increasingly severe situation resources measures must be taken to reduce evaporation loss, wind blowing loss pollution discharge natural ventilation tower. Based on comprehensive summary water-saving technology tower, we compared advantages disadvantages various tec...

Section 316(b) of the Clean Water Act (CWA) requires that "the location, design, construction, and capacity of cooling water intake structures reflect the best technology available for minimizing adverse environmental impact." As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) develops new regulations to implement Section 316(b), much of the debate has centered on adverse impingement and entrain...

This paper presents a model-based supervisory control strategy for online control of building central cooling water systems to enhance their energy efficiency. Simplified chiller and cooling tower models are developed and used to predict the system energy performance, environment quality as well as the system response to the changes of control settings. A novel and simple optimization technique...