I agree with you. However, I'm not sure this formula is the best one and I have no idea about this efficiency. It's for this reason, I posted on this forum. Because, I'm pretty sure that I'm not the first person who wants to calculate the electricity consumption of a fan. There is probably a...
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I'm currently working on a project where a wet cooling tower is involved. The wet cooling tower is an induced draft system. I know the volume of air handled and also the properties of the air entering and leaving the system.
I want to determine the electricity consumption of...
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I would like to program water thermodynamic properties in C, C++ or Matlab in order to model a steam power plant. I'm particularly interested in getting the enthalpy of the fluid by knowing the temperature and the pressure.
I recently found out the software Cantera...
Steamking: thank you for trying to help. I did a diagram to show my problem. In this case, the turbine is cooled down thanks to a wet cooling tower.
According to the paper: Emerging issues and needs in power plant cooling systems, the cooling approach which is the difference in cold water...
Thank you again for your messages.
@ Jim Hardy: are you talking about this extract:
"The difference in cold water and inlet air wet-bulb temperatures is known as the “cooling approach”. Most cooling towers are designed for an approach between 5 and 10 °F; for power plant cooling towers, the...
Thank you again for all your very interesting explanation. However, it also worries me a little, because the exit conditions of the turbine or the inlet conditions of the condenser seems pretty hard to estimate.
I know the relation of the energy out, but in order to get the power output you...
Thank you for all your explanations and sorry for the late reply.
Jim Hardy, is there any general formula to determine the output power depending on the mass flow rate of the steam? I would like to estimate the electrical energy generation in a direct steam generating power plant working only...
Thank you for your answers and from now on I will be careful not to be smacked with a salmon! :biggrin:
I would like to run a 1 MW power plant using only the energy from the sun. I don't really know what steam flow rate I would like to use (so if you have some interesting resource about this...
(English is not my native language so I apologize for the rest of the post)
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I'm an engineering student and I'm currently working on a solar thermal project. I'm trying to model a concentrating solar power (CSP) plant according to DNI (Direct Normal Incidence) change during a...