13-05: Air Cooled Steam Condenser Test Laboratory Cooling Tower Water Treatment Programs

13-05: Air Cooled Steam Condenser Test Laboratory Cooling Tower Water Treatment ProgramsPower 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

which provides greater stability and reliability thus producing significant improved corrosion

and bio-mass microbiological control

This publication addresses general information and considerations that may be explored by cooling technology companies in developing such plans and mitigating against related risks

how it is handled

This Standard offers recommendations for Fire Resistant Partition Systems used in cooling towers

and during plume abatement (winter) season

which will allow higher cycles of concentration than standard acid and non-acid cooling water programs

A temporary heat source was used

and air wet-bulb temperature are presented and discussed for both flow arrangements

scaling and biological fouling in a side-by-side comparison to standard chemical treatment

These waters often contain impurities that serve as nutrients for microbiological fouling in cooling systems

and Chlorine Dioxide are very strong oxidants and as such are actively depleted by things like UV from sunlight