Chu, Chi Ming and Mizanur Rahman (2009) A method to achieve robust aerodynamics and enhancement of updraft in natural draft dry cooling towers. In: Proceedings of the ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference 2009 (HT2009), 19-23 July 2009, San Francisco, California, USA.
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A method to stabilize the draft through natural cooling towers is introduced. Natural draught dry cooling towers are widely used in arid regions of the world for the power industry especially those employing nuclear reactors. Their presence has become iconic of the process industry for their dominance of the landscape. These towers control the overall efficiency of power plants, and with the ongoing energy crisis it is desirable to raise efficiency by stabilising the draught through the tower. Energy comsumption is a substantial part of the overall cost of plant operation, and therefore even with a conservative 5 per cent improvement is feasible. It has been noted by some researchers like Baer, Ernst and Wurz (1980) that cooling towers do experience unstable flow with breezes. This phenomenon can be explained by Jörg and Scorer (1967) to occur even in a still ambience with cold air inflow down into the tower shell from exit. Jörg and Scorer (1967) developed a correlation to predict cold inflow to a glass tube for various fluids in a laboratory. By using their formula, it is found that under typical exit bulk velocities, of 3-5 m/s or below, cold air is liable to 'sink' into the shell, even in a quiescent surrounding. Indeed this phenomenon was demonstrated in the laboratory using a duct of size 457 x 457 mm2 of a heat exchanger by employing a smoke generator to detect that cold air did flow into the duct rather than the hot air filling the entire cross sectional area of the duct exit. A device was applied by Chu (1986) to prevent this cold air from sinking into the duct and enhance the stability and quantity of the updraft. In this paper, for the first time data obtained from a 700 x 700 mm2 cross-sectional flow area model air-cooled heat exchanger are presented that proves the air flow rate enhancement due to this device. It is hoped that more tests can be conducted to optimize the design for application in boiler chimneys and natural draught dry cooling towers. Copyright © 2009 by ASME.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED) |
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| Keyword: | Air flow-rate, Air-cooled heat exchanger, Bulk velocity, Cold air, Cold inflow, Cross sectional area, Dry cooling, Energy crisis, Flow area, Glass tubes, Hot air, Natural draft dry cooling towers, Overall costs, Overall efficiency, Plant operations, Power industry, Process industries, Unstable flows Engineering controlled terms : Arid regions, Chimneys, Cooling towers, Ducts, Energy policy, Nuclear propulsion, Nuclear reactors Engineering main heading : Cooling |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TH Building construction > TH1-9745 Building construction > TH7005-7699 Heating and ventilation. Air conditioning |
| Department: | SCHOOL > School of Engineering and Information Technology |
| Depositing User: | ADMIN ADMIN |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Mar 2011 16:35 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Dec 2014 14:31 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/2518 |
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