THERMAL SCIENCE

International Scientific Journal

Mirjana S. Laković

,

Slobodan Laković

,

Miloš J. Banjac

ANALYSIS OF THE EVAPORATIVE TOWERS COOLING SYSTEM OF A COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT

ABSTRACT
The paper presents a theoretical analysis of the cooling system of a 110 MW coal-fired power plant located in central Serbia, where eight evaporative towers cool down the plant. An updated research on the evaporative tower cooling system has been carried out to show the theoretical analysis of the tower heat and mass balance, taking into account the sensible and latent heat exchanged during the processes which occur inside these towers. Power plants which are using wet cooling towers for cooling condenser cooling water have higher design temperature of cooling water, thus the designed condensing pressure is higher compared to plants with a once-through cooling system. Daily and seasonal changes further deteriorate energy efficiency of these plants, so it can be concluded that these plants have up to 5% less efficiency compared to systems with once-through cooling. The whole analysis permitted to evaluate the optimal conditions, as far as the operation of the towers is concerned, and to suggest an improvement of the plant. Since plant energy efficiency improvement has become a quite common issue today, the evaluation of the cooling system operation was conducted under the hypothesis of an increase in the plant overall energy efficiency due to low cost improvement in cooling tower system.
KEYWORDS
cooling tower, condensing pressure, energy efficiency
PAPER SUBMITTED: 2012-04-26
PAPER REVISED: 2012-06-06
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2012-09-12
DOI REFERENCE: https://doi.org/10.2298/TSCI120426176L
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THERMAL SCIENCE YEAR 2012, VOLUME 16, ISSUE Supplement 2, PAGES [S375 - S385]
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