Performance monitoring of direct air-cooled power generating unit with infrared thermography

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 418-424

  Ge, Zhihua ^a   Du, Xiaoze ^a   Yang, Lijun ^a   Yang, Yongping ^a   Li, Yanlei ^a   Jin, Yansheng ^a  

^a NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Direct air cooled condenser; Heat transfer; Infrared thermography; Power generating unit

Indexed keywords

AIR-COOLED CONDENSERS; AMBIENT AIR TEMPERATURE; COUNTERFLOW; FIN-TUBES; GENERATING UNIT; INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY; LOCAL SURFACES; NATURAL WIND; NORTH CHINA; OPTIMAL OPERATION; PERFORMANCE MONITORING; RECIRCULATIONS; RESEARCH OBJECT; STEAM FLOWS; SUB-CRITICAL; SUPER-CRITICAL; SURFACE FOULING; SURFACE TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TUBE BUNDLE;

AIRCRAFT PROPULSION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CONDENSER TUBES; CONDENSERS (LIQUEFIERS); FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); HEAT TRANSFER; MIXED CONVECTION; PARALLEL FLOW; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); TUBES (COMPONENTS); WATER ANALYSIS;

COOLING SYSTEMS;

EID: 78650032718     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2010.08.030     Document Type: Article

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