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Advanced Hybrid Cooling Systems: Technology Review

Product ID: 1025067 Date Published: 31-Dec-2012 File size: 3.43 MB Abstract The subject of the use, and particularly the consumptive use, of water in the generation of electric power is receiving increasing attention. Frequently referred to as The Energy-Water Nexus, societys need for increasing amounts of electricity sometimes comes into conflict with the desire to protect and conserve limited water resources. To address this issue, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has conducted a number of studies and published several reports over the past few years. Two of these related reports dealt separately with assessing the current and projected water availability across the country, and also investigating the use of water in power plants categorized by plant type, as well as water use within a plant. An important conclusion is that for nearly all fossil-fired and nuclear plants, water for the condensation of steam turbine exhaust, generically known as power plant cooling, is by far the greatest consumptive use of water for power generation. Therefore, a comprehensive look at the comparative cost and performance of alternative cooling systems, with particular attention to water-conserving cooling methods, has been undertaken, and results have been published in two recent EPRI studies. The California Energy Commission and the U.S. Department of Energy have produced similar studies. This report introduces five technologies that have been either in commercial use or under development, but may not be widely known in the utility industry. Three of them conform to the general category of hybrid cooling in that both wet and dry heat rejection elements are combined to provide a combination of the benefits of each type. In one case, an all-dry system is enhanced through the application of a limited amount of water in the dry element itself. In another, the heat rejection is accomplished entirely with an all-wet system, but a portion of the evaporated water is recovered before dispersion into the atmosphere. The five technologies described in this report include: Dual-coil cooler (Evapco) Heller systems (EGI) Thermosyphon cooler (Johnson Controls Inc.) Holtec International Vertical Air Cooled Condenser (HI-VACC) Air2Air (SPX Technologies) Sector Name: Generation Document Type: Technical Update FileType: Adobe PDF (.pdf)

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Related Material 1024710-Hybrid Cooling Systems Program 2012 Program 66 CoalFleet for Tomorrow - Future Coal Generation Options Keywords ClearSky Dual coil system Heller system Holtec International Vertical Air Cooled Condenser (HI-VACC) system Hybrid cooling Thermosyphon cooler Water-conserving cooling methods Report 000000000001025067 Note For further information about EPRI, call the EPRI Customer Assistance Center at (800) 313-3774 or email askepri@epri.com Direct URL http://www.epri.com/abstracts/Pages/ProductAbstract.aspx?ProductId=000000000001025067 Email a link to the page

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