Simulation Of Ramin Power Plant Cooling Towers operation and Consider Packing substitute in their Efficiency

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In this paper, fist, operation of Ramin power plant cooling towers at present condition and then with packing substitute assumption was simulated. mathematical modeling of heat and mass transfer with Merkel simple assumption in the tower is used. The governing partial differential equations of air and water in the tower packing was derived by using mass and energy balances.Then the governing equation were solved by numerical method. after that tower characteristic was calculated and cooling tower performance in varied ambient condition during several month of a year was simulated and was compared with available experimental data in the power plant. After packing substitute, new operation points are achieved and cooling tower performance in this point is predicted and compared with the operation results of the old packing.The results of simulation show that the range of cooling tower after packing substitute is increased until 5.5 oC relatively and was reached from 10 oc to 15.5 oC at new conditions.

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