Utilization of municipal wastewater for cooling in thermoelectric power plants: Evaluation of the combined cost of makeup water treatment and increased condenser fouling

Energy

Volumn 60, Issue , 2013, Pages 139-147

  Walker, Michael E ^a   Theregowda, Ranjani B ^b   Safari, Iman ^a   Abbasian, Javad ^a   Arastoopour, Hamid ^a   Dzombak, David A ^b   Hsieh, Ming Kai ^c   Miller, David C ^d  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electricity; Fouling; Freshwater conservation; Power; Wastewater; Water treatment

Indexed keywords

COOLING; COOLING SYSTEMS; COSTS; ELECTRICITY; FOULING; POWER PLANTS; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; WASTEWATER; WATER; WATER TREATMENT;

COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; POWER; REFERENCE POWER PLANT; SCALING TENDENCIES; TERTIARY TREATMENT; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY; WATER REQUIREMENTS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; CONDENSATION; COOLING; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FOULING; FRESHWATER; RECYCLING; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884596288     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2013.07.066     Document Type: Article

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