Experimental Research on the Effect of Cross-Wind to Wet-Cooling Tower Performance

Environmental cross-wind has a influence on cooling capacity of wet cooling tower to a great extent in power plant.The variation of circulating-water temperature difference (Δt) and cooling coefficient of efficiency(η) with cross-wind velocity, circulating water inlet temperature and flow rate, are shown under cross-wind conditions, compared with cases without wind. By using experimental platform of cooling water system based on 300MW thermal power unit,it is found that with cross-wind velocity increasing,cooling temperature difference and cooling efficiency decrease first then increase at the knee point when the velocity value is 0.8m/s. In addition, the correlation betweenΔt ,η and parameters,such as circulating-water inlet temperature and flow rate, is derived for cases with windless conditions.