Water Conserving Cooling Systems -‐-‐Air-‐cooled Condensers-‐-‐
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Water Conserving Cooling Systems -‐-‐Air-‐cooled Condensers-‐-‐
ARPA-‐E Workshop March 28, 2012
John S. Maulbetsch Maulbetsch ConsulFng
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Air-‐cooled Condensers • Good things
– Water conservaFon – SiFng flexibility – No water supply, treatment, disposal, etc.
• Bad things – Plant efficiency/output penalFes – Cost—capital and operaFng – Size, noise, condensate chemistry, wind, freeze-‐up
• Nuclear applicaFons??
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VWO case
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Higgins (nee Bighorn) 550 MW CC plant
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ACC Design SpecificaFons
Item SI Units English Units
Steam flow 315 kg/s 2,500,000 lb/hr
Quality 0.95 0.95
Backpressure 24 kPa 7 in Hga
Condensing temp 64 C 147 F
1% Dry bulb temperature 43 C 110 F
ElevaFon 0 m 0 d
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OperaFng Point QuanFty SI Units English Units
ITD 21 K 37 F Steam flow/cell 24 40,000 lb/hr
# cells 60 60 Air temperature rise ~17 K ~30 F
Air flow/cell 3,500 kg/s 5,800,000 lb/hr
Air flow/cell 2,200,000 m3/hr 1,290,000 acfm
StaFc pressure 75 -‐ 125 Pa 0.3 -‐ 0.5 in H2O Fan power/cell 127 kW 170 HP ACC fan power 7,600 kW 10,200 HP
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Condensing tube for ACC Typical of Single-‐row Condenser (SRC) design
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Some numbers to remember
Item SI Units English Units
Tubes per bundle 40 40
Bundle width (length) 2.5 (12) m 8 (40) d
Bundles/cell (each side) 5 5
Bundles/cell 10 10
Heat load per cell 11,750 kW 4 x 107 Btu/hr
Air-‐side area per cell 37,000 m2 400,000 d2
Overall heat transfer coefficient (on outside area) ~30 W/m2-‐K ~ 5 Btu/d2-‐hr-‐F
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IllustraFve ACC performance curves
ACC Base Performance Curves
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Design ConditionsTurbine Exhaust Steam Flow 1,998,080 lb/hr
Turbine Exhaust Pressure 3.12 in HgaInlet Temperature 49.1 F
Turbine Exhaust Steam Quality 0.932ACC Fan Power 3,945 HP
Site Elevation Sea Level (14.7 psia)
% of Design Steam Flow
120% 110% 100% 90%
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ASME Test Code for Air-‐Cooled Condensers
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Front Range, Colorado Springs
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Steam duct and risers Gas-‐fired combined cycle plant, Front Range, Colorado
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Steam risers
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Steam ducts and cells
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Catwalk between streets
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Tube bundles from inside cell
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Bojom of bundles and condensate line
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ACC fan-‐-‐~ 10 m diameter
Typical fan design…..not one of the “low noise” designs
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Low noise fan blade Installed at Crockej Co-‐GeneraFon Plant
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What do you do when it’s hot?
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Inlet air cooling with sprays TesFng at Crockej Co-‐Gen plant
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Or when the wind blows?
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ACC Cruciform windscreen Windscreen porosity varying with height
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What about nuclear?
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Mechanical draftdry cooling tower
Circulating water pumps
Existing Surface Condenser
Existing wet cooling tower
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Kendal Power StaFon, South Africa Natural-‐drad, indirect dry cooling
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