A novel layout of air-cooled condensers to improve thermo-flow performances

Lei Chen, Lijun Yang, Xiaoze Du and Yongping Yang

Applied Energy, 2016, vol. 165, issue C, 244-259

Abstract: Ambient winds are generally unfavorable to the thermo-flow performances of air-cooled condensers in power plants. More emphases are placed to weaken the negative effects of ambient winds, but no layout alternative of air-cooled condensers is considered. In this work, a novel vertical arrangement of air-cooled condensers is proposed on the basis of a 2×600MW direct dry cooling power plant, which can weaken the adverse wind effects and utilize the wind power to improve the cooling capacity of air-cooled condensers. By means of the CFD simulation and experimental validation, the flow and temperature fields of cooling air for the vertically arranged air-cooled condensers at ambient winds are obtained. The mass flow rate, inlet air temperature and turbine back pressure are computed and compared with the traditional air-cooled condensers. The results show that the flow rate of the novel air-cooled condensers increases conspicuously compared with the current ones both in the absence and presence of winds. In the wind directions of 60° and 90°, the off-axis flow distortions of axial flow fans are greatly weakened and the average inlet air temperature of the novel air-cooled condensers is reduced and almost equals the ambient temperature. The thermo-flow performances of the air-cooled condensers are improved, thus the turbine back pressure is reduced by the novel layout of air-cooled condensers.

Keywords: Air-cooled condenser; Novel layout; Ambient wind; Flow and heat transfer; Turbine back pressure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.11.062

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