Natural Cooling Tower Capability

Calculations in PMAX

Frank Todd
PSEG
Greg Alder
SCIENTECH

PMAX Cooling Tower

Model
z Cooling

Tower at Hope Creek

Hope Creek is a 3293 Mwt

Boiling Water Reactor
Natural Draft Counter Flow
Tower
Rejects 2176 Mwt
Operates at a Range of 25F.
Circ Water flow: 552,000 gpm

Air Flow

Wet Bulb
Relative
Humidity
Drift Eliminators

Fill

Water flow
from
condenser

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Cooling Tower Capability

Calculation IAW Cooling Tower
Institute Code Test.
"

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Use Performance Method for

Natural Draft Cooling Tower
Determine predicted flow based
on vendor curves and ratio with
actual flow

Q = (Test gpm/predicted gpm) X

100

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Variables for curves:

"

Range

"

Relative Humidity

"

Wet bulb Temperature

"

"

Outlet (Cold) Water

Temperature
Predicted flow rate

TOWER CAPABILITY (Q)

Run date
Run time

09/06/98
1530-1630

Inputs are in BLUE

Wet bulb temperature
Dry bulb temperature
Barometric pressure
Relative humidity

deg F
deg F
psia
%

Circ
Circ
Circ
Circ

deg F
gpm
lbm/hr
Btu/lbm

92.87
612,249
304,841,590
60.9

Make-up water temp

Make-up water flow rate
Make-up water flow rate
Make-up water enthalpy

deg F
gpm
lbm/hr
Btu/lbm

86.77
48,000
23,925,688
54.8

Inlet (hot) water temperature

Outlet (cold) water temperature
Range

deg F
deg F
deg F

water temp
water flow rate (test)
water flow rate (test)
water enthalpy

70.34
87.28
14.681
43.46 (preferably from CTI disk)

84.9
88.1
91.5

gpm
deg F

SUMX
SUMY
SUMXY
SUMXX
SLOPE
Y INT

117.77
93.35
24.4
Predicted Circ Water Flow
Tower Capability (Q)

Circ water flow rate (spec)

Predicted outlet water temp

414,000
552,000
690,000

414,000
84.9

552,000
88.1

690,000
91.5

gpm
%

767,759
79.74

264.5
1656000
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23333.78
41479.39
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Hope Creek Cooling Tower Capability Test

700,000
675,000
650,000
625,000

Flow
gpm

600,000
575,000
550,000

Column 11

525,000
500,000
475,000
450,000
425,000
400,000
84.5 85.0 85.5 86.0 86.5 87.0 87.5 88.0 88.5 89.0 89.5 90.0 90.5 91.0 91.5 92.0

Cold Water Temperature

Current Monitoring of Cooling

Tower Capability

z Use data from met tower and plant

z Perform corrections to data
z Input data to excel spreadsheet
z Spreadsheet uses logical functions
to solve the four variables.
z Capability is calculated
z Target Cold Water temperature is
calculated
z Lost Mwe due to cooling tower
inefficiencies

Why Integrate Cooling Tower

Model into PMAX?

z Give operations ability to detect

problems with the cooling tower
and possibly correct them.
z Ability to trend more data
z Help prevent "wild goose chase"
for Mwe
z Remove the "hunch factor" from
how the plant should operate
under various conditions.

Modeling Approach
z PMAX

and PEPSE provide

univariate and bivariate curves
z Linear interpolation
z Solution requires four inputs to
obtain the tower capability

Curve Inputs
z WB

= wet bulb temperature

(Deg F)
z RH = relative humidity (%)
z RANGE = tower water delta T
(Deg F)
z FLOW = circ water flow (GPM)

Step One: Bivariate

Curves for Input of WB
and RH
15 RANGE 414000 FLOW
23 RANGE 414000 FLOW
29 RANGE 414000 FLOW
15 RANGE 512000 FLOW
23 RANGE 512000 FLOW
29 RANGE 512000 FLOW
15 RANGE 690000 FLOW
23 RANGE 690000 FLOW
29 RANGE 690000 FLOW

Step Two: Interpolate

Results of Curves in
Conjunction with
Logicals for Variable
RANGE for Each FLOW
Set
Sample: RANGE between 15 to
23F
Y15 + [(Y23 Y15)/(23-15)]/
(RANGE 15)

Logical Steps
15-23 RANGE 414000 FLOW
23-29 RANGE 414000 FLOW
15-23 RANGE 512000 FLOW
23-29 RANGE 512000 FLOW
15-23 RANGE 690000 FLOW
23-29 RANGE 690000 FLOW
Use same output variable for each
flow set.

Final Step: Interpolate

Step Two Results in
Conjunction with
Logicals for Variable
FLOW
Sample: RANGE between
414000 - 512000
Y414000 + [(Y512000
Y414000)/(512000-414000)]/
(FLOW 414000)

Logical Steps
414000 512000 FLOW
512000 690000 FLOW

Conclusions
z Effectively

modeled 3+ input
curves for linear interpolation
z Future modifications
Predicted circ water temperature
Mwe effect