Cool water for condenser with waste energy
Cool water for condenser with waste energy
(OP)
I have a cooling system in a power plant that operates on water based cooling tower. The inlet temperature into the condenser is around 20c. I have a lot of waste heat and low pressure steam. I would like to use the thermal energy to chill the water down few degrees.
The cooling system mass flow is around 3 m3/s.
Possible?
The cooling system mass flow is around 3 m3/s.
Possible?





RE: Cool water for condenser with waste energy
Good luck.
Gerry Hartmann
BS ChE NCSU
RE: Cool water for condenser with waste energy
It would take a tank and some careful level control but you could vaporize some water off your cooling water and make it a little cooler.
However with 20C cooling water I would not bother.
Probably a better way to use the heat would be an ammonia boiler to generate some power????
Regards
StoneCold
RE: Cool water for condenser with waste energy
Are you operating a steam turbine in a variable extraction configuration ?
http://books.google.com/books?id=hA129h8dc1AC&...
Or is this an older non-extraction steam turbine that was re-used from some other service ?
What is the range of "waste heat" that you are trying to harvest as compared to main steam flow ?
MJCronin
Sr. Process Engineer