journal article
Dry cooling towers as condensers for geothermal power plants
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to present scaling laws for a dry natural draft cooling tower by modelling the heat exchanger and the tower supports as a porous medium. Porous medium modelling of the tube bundles that allows a vigorous theoretical analysis of the problem is adopted. Scale analysis is used as the theoretical tool to study the problem of turbulent free convection through the heat exchanger bundles and along the cooling tower chimney. Results are then compared with full numerical simulation of the problem to observe splendid agreement. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved- Journal Article
- Natural draft cooling towers
- Free convection
- Air-cooled
- Porous media
- Geothermal energy
- Scale analysis
- C1
- 0913 Mechanical Engineering
- 091305 Energy Generation, Conversion and Storage Engineering
- 091307 Numerical Modelling and Mechanical Characterisation
- 091501 Computational Fluid Dynamics
- 091502 Computational Heat Transfer
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This paper was published in UQ eSpace (University of Queensland).
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