13-05: Air Cooled Steam Condenser Test LaboratoryPower plants that incorporate Air Cooled Steam Condensers (ACCs) offer significant water savings over power plants using traditional evaporative cooling technologies. State of the art ACCs feature single row finned tubes installed in an A frame steel structure. The steam from the turbine exhaust condenses as it is directly cooled by forced convection of the ambient air. Precise knowledge of the heat transfer and pressure drops both on the steam side

and limited water resources

The development of accurate and representative cooling tower performance penalties is critical to the optimization of cooling systems design and the assessment of associated performance penalties

A comparison of air cooled verses water cooled systems will be approached from several vantage points

This may have a significant impact upon the benefits and requirements of existing reuse applications and/or make the previously less attractive projects worth reconsidering

EDF decided to run two campaigns of tests: the first one focused on the effect of the mechanical deterioration of drift eliminators

The objective of this study was to explore the benefits of advanced airfoil technology for industrial cooling tower fan blades

and Composite Cooling Solutions

and recommended testing procedures employed to determine the defined values

During the summer season

Case histories are provided from Dow Chemical that outlines results of Kimre units in operation for 1½ -2 years

longer life

specific areas are discussed