Abstract
For thermal power generation, the natural draft hybrid cooling system (NDHCs) with airflows in parallel design gives a multi-objective solution for water saving, performance enhancement and maintenance issues, like corrosion, by switching the loads of wet and dry sections. Performances of dry and wet sections interact with each other in the highly integrated system, increasing the complexity of operation strategies. In this context the present paper examines eight different operation schemes to reveal the relationships of ambient conditions and operation schemes. Comprehensive comparisons in the view of cooling efficiency with a same water inlet temperature are conducted firstly. Results show that there exists energy-saving potentials of the water evaporated rate, cooling performances and the pump power for different schemes. Based on the practical boundary conditions, including those of weather data, operation hours and market factors, optimal operation strategies of hybrid cooling are designed to minimize the operation costs of the energy system. For the 660 MW power generating unit integrated with a natural draft dry cooling system (NDDCs), operation costs based on NDHC after optimization decreased about 0.8% in 2010 and 0.35% in 2018 compared with that of the basic system. When comparing with the designed operation modes of hybrid cooling, 0.07 million dollars is saved after optimization.
Highlights
Global warming has put great threat on the cooling efficiency of the natural draft dry cooling system (NDDCs)
The basic heat load is dissipated in heat exchangers of the dry section, and the wet section is put into operation under high ambient temperature
A cost-effective operation is mainly accomplished by decreasing water temperature flows into the wet section, most heat is dissipated in the dry section namely
Summary
Global warming has put great threat on the cooling efficiency of the natural draft dry cooling system (NDDCs). To reduce the mass flow rate of the spraying water, packing fill from the natural draft wet cooling system (NDWCs) is adopted to expand the mass transfer areas [7]. According to the experiments of the cooling system and simulation results, the evaporated mass flow rate of water drops about 20% compared with the precooled design at the same power output [14]. A cost-effective operation is mainly accomplished by decreasing water temperature flows into the wet section, most heat is dissipated in the dry section namely. That is the main reason all water passes through both dry and wet sections in the existing design, maintaining a constant pump power. Where mw,d and mw,w represent the mass flow rate of water of dry and wet section respectively, mw,tot is the mass flow rate of circulating water flowing into cooling system
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