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Power station dry cooling
A tour over some recent projects
Presentation to Australian Institute of Energy Sydney Branch, July 2001
Richard J Hunwick
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Power station cooling
Inland power stations are huge water users:Half the energy in coal fired in a power station just evaporates water, lost to the air.A quarter of the energy in natural gas fired in a CCGT power station ends up similarly.Australia’s power stations consume of the order of 250,000 Megalitres of water p.a., enough to supply Adelaide or Perth.
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Why dry cooling?
Is evaporative cooling appropriate?Australia is the driest continent Legislation can protect water supplies to power stations in droughts, but--Who wins if this exacerbates water-rationing, and farmers can’t irrigate?
How many votes do power generators control?
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Why dry cooling?
Options are increasing--cost premiums are falling.Dry cooling can greatly speed up the planning approvals process.Maintenance costs much reduced: clean power station environment, no cooling water treatment plant, no blowdown disposal.
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Power station cooling options1: evaporative cooling
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Source: EGI
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Bayswater Power Station (4 x 660 MW), New South Wales, featuring natural-draft evaporative cooling towers
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Power station cooling options2: Air-cooled condenser
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Source: EGI
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Kendall Power Station, South Africa, shown under construction in 1986: still the world’s largest dry cooled power station.
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Power station cooling options 3: Heller system: mechanical-draft tower
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Source: EGI
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Power station cooling options 4: Heller system: natural-draft tower
Steam Turbine
DC Condenser
Boiler Feed Water
CoolingTower
Recovery Turbine
CW Pump
Water to AirHeat Exchanger
Dry
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Source: EGI
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Bursa power station Turkey, 1,400 MW CCGT, Heller cooling towers featured: 135 m tall, radiator panels form lower skirt
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Inside one of the Bursa cooling towers: water distribution piping, “peak” evaporative coolers for trim cooling in hot weather shown
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An assembled cooling delta undergoing pressure testing, Gebze-Adapazari Power Station, Turkey
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Demineralised water circulation headers, and connections to and from cooling deltas (shown during construction)
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Main circulating water pump/turbine sets; cooling deltas for another tower in background, Gebze-Adapazari PS, Turkey
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Matra Power Station, Hungary, showing 30+ years old Heller cooling towers (the larger two contain wet scrubbers-not absence of plumes
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Matra Power Station, Hungary. Wet FGD scrubber installed within a Heller dry cooling tower
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Air-cooled radiators used as auxiliary coolers (these can be deluged with water for extra cooling in hot weather).
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Small mechanical-draft dry-deluged cooling tower at a district heating plant (used to reject heat nor required during warmer months)
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Radiator panels for dry-deluged cooling, epoxy coated for additional protection against chemicals in deluging water
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