Cooling Water Sources for Power Generation

1971 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-133
Author(s):  
Louis G. Hauser
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Cooling Water ◽  
Water Sources

Performance Evaluation of Photovoltaic Power-Generation System Equipped With a Cooling Device Utilizing Siphonage

2005 ◽  
Vol 128 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaoru Furushima ◽  
Yutaka Nawata
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Cooling Water ◽  
Ground Level ◽  
Hot Water ◽  
Generation System ◽  
Cooling Device ◽  
Pv System ◽  
Pv Modules ◽  
Power Generation System ◽  
Hot Water Supply System

In order to construct an efficient photovoltaic (PV) power-generation system, we have developed a new system equipped with a cooling device utilizing siphonage. The major components of the system are an array of PV modules and cooling panels attached to the backside of the PV modules. The PV modules are cooled with cooling water flowing through a narrow gap in each cooling panel, and hot water discharged from the cooling panel can be reused. In order to save energy for introducing cooling water into the panel, siphonage from an upper level of a building to the ground level is utilized. From long-term monitoring tests in summer for the PV system, we confirmed that the cooling of the PV modules increases the electric power and that the reuse of hot water from the cooling panel contributes very much for saving energy consumed in a hot-water-supply system.

Performance Evaluation of Photovoltaic Power-Generation System Equipped With a Cooling Device Utilizing Siphonage

Solar Energy ◽  
2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaoru Furushima ◽  
Yutaka Nawata
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Cooling Water ◽  
Hot Water ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Generation System ◽  
Cooling Device ◽  
Pv Module ◽  
Pv Modules ◽  
Power Generation System ◽  
Pv Power Generation

Recently, the photovoltaic (PV) power generation system has attracted attention as one of clean energies. Especially, residential roofing PV system connected with power grids has been popularized as a result of increasing concerns over global warming and continuing decline in PV manufacturing costs. The power generated by the PV module increases with irradiance, but it decreases as PV module temperature becomes high. The PV temperature depends on ambient temperature, and becomes more than 60°C in summer. Therefore, the power generated does not necessarily increase even if the irradiance increases in summer. However, if the PV modules were cooled under such a high PV temperature condition, more electrical power would be obtained from PV modules. In this study, a PV power generating system equipped with a cooling device has been developed. The major components of the system are an array of PV modules and cooling panels attached to the backside of the PV modules. The respective PV module is cooled with cooling water flowing through a narrow gap in each cooling panel. Hot water discharged from the cooling panel is delivered to a storage tank and can be reused in anywhere. In order to save energy for introducing cooling water into the panel, a siphonage from an upper level of a building to the ground level is utilized. A siphon tube is connected to a discharge port of the cooling panel, thus the pressure at the discharge port becomes negative. Cooling water enters into the bottom end of the cooling panel at atmospheric pressure and goes up to the top, discharge side. By adopting this cooling water system, we could spread the cooling water evenly over the entire backside of the PV module and thus realized an effective cooling device. In addition, we could make the cooling device light and smaller because no auxiliary pumping system is needed for introducing cooling water. To provide field performance data for the present PV power generation system equipped with the special cooling device mentioned above, long-term monitoring tests in a natural environment were conducted in summer for a test facility constructed at the Yatsushiro National College of Technology (YNCT), Japan. As a result, it was confirmed that the cooling of the PV modules increases the electric power and that the reuse of hot water from the cooling panel contributes very much for saving energy consumed for heating water.

Cooling water sources diagram

2020 ◽  
pp. 116329
Author(s):  
Flávio S. Francisco ◽  
Fernando L.P. Pessoa ◽  
Eduardo M. Queiroz
Keyword(s):  
Cooling Water ◽  
Water Sources

scholarly journals Experimentally economic analysis of ORC power plant with low-temperature waste heat recovery

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Li ◽  
Leren Tao ◽  
Qingpu Li ◽  
Yongpan Hu
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Power Plant ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Waste Heat ◽  
Water System ◽  
Cooling Water ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
Electricity Production ◽  
Commercial Application

Abstract Due to the low boiling point of organic fluids, the organic Rankine cycle (ORC) is an effective way to improve the recovery efficiency of low-temperature waste heat. An ORC power plant was established with an actual generating capacity of 16.3 kW. As the ORC technology is in the initial stage of commercial application, a technical and economic analysis has been conducted in this paper. Through analysis of each part investment of the power generation plant, it is found that the ORC system part accounts for 61% of the total initial investment, and the larger the power generation scale, the larger the proportion. An economic model has been proposed to study the economic feasibility of low-temperature industrial waste heat conversion in this plant. The influences of the installation of cooling water system, preheater, superheater, loan ratio, interest rate on electricity production cost (EPC) and profit are analyzed. According to the analysis, the lowest EPC of the plant is 0.46 Yuan/(kW • h).

Modeling Power Generation Water Usage

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaron J. Peck ◽  
Amanda D. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Thermoelectric Power ◽  
Power Output ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Cooling Tower ◽  
Cooling Water ◽  
Rankine Cycle ◽  
Closed Circuit ◽  
Cooling Systems ◽  
Temperature Range

Climate change can have a large effect on thermoelectric power generation. Typical thermoelectric power plants rely on water to cool steam in the condenser in order to produce electricity. Increasing global temperatures can increase average water temperatures as well as decrease the amount of water available for cooling due to evaporation. It is important to know how these parameters can affect power generation and efficiency of power systems, especially when assessing the water needs of a plant for a desired power output and whether a site can fulfill those needs. This paper explains the development of a model that shows how power and efficiency are affected due to changing water temperature and water availability for plants operating on a Rankine cycle. Both a general model of the simple Rankine cycle as well as modifications for regeneration and feedwater heating are presented. Power plants are analyzed for two different types of cooling systems: once-through cooling and closed circuit cooling with a cooling tower. Generally, rising temperatures in cooling water have been found to lower power generation and efficiency. Here, we present a method for quantifying power output and efficiency reductions due to changes in cooling water flow rates or water temperatures. Using specified plant parameters, such as boiler temperature and pressure, power and efficiency are modeled over a 5°C temperature range of inlet cooling water. It was found that over this temperature range, power decrease ranged from 2–3.5% for once through cooling systems, depending on the power system, and 0.7% for plants with closed circuit cooling. This shows that once-through systems are more vulnerable to changing temperatures than cooling tower systems. The model is also applied to Carbon Plant, a coal fired power plant in Utah that withdraws water from the Price River, to show how power and efficiency change as the temperature of the water changes using USGS data obtained for the Price River. The model can be applied to other thermoelectric power stations, whether actual or proposed, to investigate the effects of water conditions on projected power output and plant efficiency.

Research of a Small-Scale Building Integrated Photovoltaic Micro-Grid System

2012 ◽  
Vol 571 ◽  
pp. 273-277
Author(s):  
Chun Feng Lv ◽  
Ai Guo Wu ◽  
Han Zhang ◽  
Fei Han
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Water System ◽  
Cooling Water ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Total System ◽  
Grid System ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Cooling Water System ◽  
Building Integrated Photovoltaic ◽  
Micro Grid

The paper presents the design of a small-scale building integrated photovoltaic micro-grid system, which is a master-slave system with bi-directional battery inverter as the core of the system.A photovoltaic energy system and management system are established, which has the function of real-time data monitoring and logging，switches different micro-grid operation mode. On this basis, the photovoltaic cooling water system is presented to solve the decline in peak power generation of the system caused by the increase of the temperature of the photovoltaic panel. Experimental results show that the stability of the system can run in networked mode and island mode, cooling water system of photovoltaic panels improve the total system power generation.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Bio-Fouling Effect in Cooling Tower by Chemical Treatment

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 374-378
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Power Generation ◽  
Power Plant ◽  
Thermal Power Plant ◽  
Pilot Plant ◽  
Cooling Tower ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Cooling Water ◽  
Large Power ◽  
The Cost

The main aim of this work is to check the bio fouling in cooling tower and its effect on power generation. The way to reduce bio fouling is necessary issue within the thermal power station, as it results in reduction of the heat transfer rate and ultimately reduction in the power generation rate of plant. So as to attenuate the energy consumption in process plant equipped with device network. In various branches of chemical industries fouling builds up on heat transfer surfaces is a heat transfer equipment burning extra fuel to compensate for a reduced heat recovery accepting reduction of plant output due to periodic equipment cleaning and recovering the cost of cleaning interventions. Microbiological fouling can cause energy losses and loss of tower efficiency. The pilot plant is very useful in the thermal power plant to test the cooling water and then it is used in the thermal power plant to reduce the losses due to the bio fouling. In large power plant they having pilot plant with PLC system and microprocessor with highly accurate sensors. It will give very accurate and direct digital readings on screen

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